several Species of Plants from New Holland. 285 



Tab. XII. Fig. 2. Planta magnitudine naturali. 



a. Spatha? cum floribus magnitudine auctae. 



b. Flos integer eadem proportione ampliatus. 



c. Capsula. 



d. Anthera. 



e. Semen. 



f. Folium. 



The name of this genus Avould be much more appropriate by 

 deriving it from its prickly spathes, the Greek word Kivr^ov 

 meaning a prickle as well as a centre : for the glumes are uni- 

 lateral in several species, and probably not truly central (as 

 Monsieur Billardicre describes them) in any : I use the term 

 spathes in conformity to his description of Centrolepis fascicu- 

 laris, 



PiMELEA CURVIFLORA. 



Tab. XIII. Fig. 1. 

 P. foliis ovalibus, capitulo in omnibus fere axillis brevissirae 



pedunculato: corolli extus valde barbatd tubo curvato : an- 



theris cordatis. 

 Pimelea curviflora. Brown Prod. v. 1. 362. 

 Fniticulus gracilis, ramosissimus, diffusus. 

 P.aini teretes, divaricati, villis densissime imbricatis. 

 Folia ovalia, subsessilia, integerrima, supra glabra, subtus pilosa, 



tres vel quatuor lineas longa. 

 Flores capitulo in omnibus fere axillis brevissime pedunculato 



terminales. 

 Capitulum sex- ad octo-florum. 

 Calyx nullus. 

 Corolla. Tubus infcrne curvatus, extus villosus, albidus, intus 



glaber : Limbus quadripartitus: Lacinia oblongo-ovatae, obtusae. 

 VOL. X. 2 p Stamina. 



