28 CV. THYMELEZ. [Pimelea, — 
P 
all succulent. —Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 515; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. - 
995 Hess i. Cab. t. 179. 
Bosh viding range, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham; Mount Lindsay, 
W. rs Warwick, Better Wide Bay, Bidwill. 
es. N.E. of Lachlan Meier A. Cunningham; M‘Leay penig an 
Richmond e siem C. Moore; M'Leay river, prs "New En gland, C. Les 
ictori Avon river, Gipps' Land, F. Mueller ; Fitzroy river, Rob 
Tasma - Port Da aliym ple, &. Brown; in Hol soil by the biski. n aed but 
not common, aid . Hooker 
Some of the specimens appear at first sight à enia the axillary iufloféecdiiód of P. 
axiflora, but the short axillary flowering bran are more developed with larger 
bracts, and the branches all end in flower-hea 
syn. 1 Cunn.). A low shrub wit ver numerous slender an 
tube. Filaments short; anthers wit co 
when open placed back to back. Female perianth oblong, about 
long at the time of flowering, ovoid an ine long w 
Z Hewardiana, Meissn. in Linnæa, xxvi. 346, an 
Prod. v. 511. 
oria. Mount Arapiles, Wimmera, Dallachy, and Jjgdlisliy the same localit; 
Mitchel, Bacchus Marsh, F. Mueller ; near Portland, Allitt. 
TUN ew England Sel st referred here by F. Mueller appear to me to belong | 
to P. curvifolia. P. um M A. Cunn., is either a form o PP drupacea or some 
species uaii allied to 
. 91. P. stet F. Muell. in Linnea, xxvi. 346. A dwarf prostrate 
much-branched shrub, forming densely matted almost moss-like patches. 
towards the ends of the upper leaves. Leaves mostly opposite, usually 
crowded, ovate, coriaceous, concave, 1 to 14 or rarely ne les. 
long. Flowers dicecious, solitary in the u per axils, usually with a 
i i po th glabrous, tube of. 
the males 1 to 13 lines long tapering at the base, the lobes under 1 line. 
Anthers shorter than the filaments, with a narrow connective, the a 
w placed back to back ; ovary present but abortive. Fem 
pus scarcely 14 lines long, the tube ovoid, the lobes about 
0 tube, divided to the ovary, persistent membr 
nous. Seed with a scanty albumen, D p 
Mesa broad.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 511; Hoo 
mus! ia. Summits of the Western Mountains at an elevation of 4000 ft., un 
er.—The flowers described by F. Mueller are the males, those described by J. 
Hooks the females. 
