Pimelea.] THYMELHIACEA. 613 
Var. erecta.—Stems stout, erect or suberect. Heads usually many-flowered. 
Var. repens.—Stems more slender, procumbent or prostrate, often very 
diffusely branched. Flowers fewer and smaller. 
Var. alpina.— Stems stout, suberect or spreading, branches tortuous, 
scarred, often nearly glabrous. 
NorrH anp SourHIsnanps: From the Three Kings Islands and the North 
Cape southwards to the Bluff, abundant. Sea-level to 4500ft. October— 
March. 
An almost polymorphous plant, the various forms of which are much in need 
of careful study and comparison. 
9. P. Urvilleana, 4. Rich. Fl. Nowv. Zel. 175.—A small widely 
spreading rather laxly branched procumbent shrub; branches 
4-18in. long, scarred, the younger ones white with copious short 
appressed silky hairs. Leaves close-set, usually quadrifariously im- 
bricating, spreading or deflexed, 4—+in. long, linear-oblong to oblong 
or oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, thick and coriaceous, concave, 
nerveless, usually glabrous on both surfaces; floral leaves usually 
larger and broader. Flowers in 4—8-flowered heads at the tips of 
the branches, small, white. Perianth 4—1in. long, villous with 
long white hairs ; lobes equalling the tube, broadly oblong, obtuse. 
Fruit baccate, white.—A. Cunn. Precur. n. 348; Raoul, Choix, 42; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1. 221; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 244. P. prostrata 
var. Urvilleana, Meisn. in D.C. Prodr. xiv. 517. Gymnococca 
microcarpa, Fisch. and Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. x. (1845) 47. 
NortH Istanp: Usually near the sea. Bay of Islands, Cunningham ; 
Whangarei Heads, Great Barrier Island, Kirk ! Little Barrier Island, 7. F. C.; 
vicinity of Auckland, Colonel Haultain! Taranaki, Dieffenbach. Soutu 
Isutanp: Nelson—Tiasman Bay, D’ Urville. October—March. 
A very imperfectly understood species, apparently only differing from states 
of P. levigata in the copious snow-white hairs on the young branches. 
10. P. Suteri, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvi. (1894) 259.— 
A small much-branched shrub 4-12 in. high; branches spreading or 
suberect, often tortuous; the younger ones sparingly pilose with 
rather long straight silky hairs; bark dark red-brown or black. 
Leaves crowded, shortly petiolate or nearly sessile, erecto-patent, 
about tin. long, narrow linear-lanceolate, subacute, coriaceous, 
concave above, both surfaces glabrous or rarely with a few lax 
hairs, margins and apices ciliated with long straight hairs. Flowers 
in 4—8-flowered heads at the tips of the branches, white, polygamo- 
dicecious. Perianth 4—1in. long, villous with white hairs. Fruit 
baccate, red, ovoid, acute, hairy at the tip. - 
SoutH IsuanpD: Nelson—Dun Mountain Range, W. T. L. Travers! P. 
Lawson! RB. J. Kingsley! 2000-3500 ft. 
A peculiar little plant, closely related to P. Lyallii and P. levigata, but 
differing from both in the narrower leaves, with ciliate margins and apices. 
