26 CV. THYMELEE. 
ading hairs. Leaves o pictor nicole; acute tapering into 
= penn, p or with recurved margins, mostly 3 to 1 in. long, bu 
ng to 14 in., usually glabrous above, slightly silky-hair 
he th blow ers small, strictly dicecious, in little terminal head: 
with "p or three small very deciduous ves and the leaves of 
short axillary flowering branches Mem o often few and deciduo 
the inna when advanced, appear to be on petri leafless peduncl 
Perianths more or less silky- -hairy, the males with a filiform tube 13 to, 
üdáshy 2 lines long, the aig ovate and obtuse. Anthers about as long 
as laments, ovate with a narrow connective. Female peria: 
ms Sandy penicillate. iting base of the Ni (ee 2 lines 
ong; acuminate, un epicarp thick and somewhat fleshy, 
OEC erastaceous, bent nner than in most species 
Meissn. in DC. Prd in 510; P. viridula, Lindb. in a. S "Vet. § 
Forhandl. ix. 60 (F. Muell). 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and on the coast to the eastward, R. Br 
A. Cunningham, and many oes Fitzgerald river, Maxwell; Donnelly HY 
Carey; Warren river, Walcot 
Sect. 6. DrrHALAMIA.—Involucral bracts either none or few ant 
not very different from the stem-leaves. Flowers (small) strictly 
cecious. Male perianth with a slender tube; anthers with a ns 
ggg. the TE very p distint and when open placed pee to b: 
nd eid e males numerous t e females fase in the head. 
anth glabrous or slightly silky-hairy, the male tube 1 to 14 lines | 
the lobes t ter; anthers on very short filaments, with a na 
connective, the cells when open Pre bug 2 back. Female peri 
arcely projecting above the o hig SK ery short lobes, some 
enlarge ed ro Meri say fruit which i is about 2 2 ya long; epicarp mem 
—Mei n Linnea, xxvi, 945, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 514. 
b n Wales. on river, C. Moore; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller; Cape - 
alter. | 
Victoria. Dandenong ranges, Ben Nevis, expe Macedon, F. Mueller. —— 
Var.? alpina, F. Mueller. A low shrub wi ovate coriaceous 
usually under 4 in. long. Mount Latrobe hee Mount b orae qi at an elevation 
