Thymelea.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
about equal proportions in South-eastern and South-western Australia, ; 
or no species inhabit both the East and West coasts. 
This genus has been thus subdivided by C. A. Meyer (Bullet. Acat 
1. Gymnococca. — Perianth not articulate. Fruit succulent. — P. 
2. Heterol.ia \. — Perianth nol artieulate /' 
3. CALYPTROSTEGIA.— Pvriaulli with the tube artieulate. Fruit dry.— /*, liffmtr, 
is, gracilis. 
Erect or prostrate, glabrous or pubescent, or silk\ shrubs, with trciu rall\ >lcndcr 
tough stringy bark, and usually opposite, sessile (ran ly alternate), entin , 
or spicate, heads generally surrounded by a four- or nioiv-1 
four-cleft, with two (rarely only one) stamens at the throat, and no soali - 
usually enclosed in the dry or baccate perianth. (Name Gram Ttft*kq,J I m u . in aUnai D I the 
§ 1. Leaves opposite. Heed* qfjhwen i* elongated terminal ped* Est, triti - 
1. Pimelea filiformis (Nob. in Loud. Journ. But. vi. 280) ; glaberrima, i 
pliciusculis, foHis oppositis lineari-oblongis ellipticisve aabacatu plain- margraibus tenuiter i 
bus (parvis) in capitulum subspicatum pedunculatum ebractentum diapositis, i 
brato tubo gr - ■ longatis, ftkmento elongato exserto. [Qumm, 8.) J im, \ ( \ ■ o. 
Hab. Apparently very rare, though found in abundance in one spot near I'enqnitc, I 
Lau-renre, Gunn. — (Fl. Dec.) 
Very nearly allied to the New Souih Wales P. spiral,,, hut that -peeic- has d.ei.i. 
shorter lobes to the perianth, and shorter stamens, and the leave- have u..; 
prostrate, a foot and more long. Lear,* in rather di-tant pans, \-\ men long, pi tw h gu n ius,< 
oblong, acute. Flower* small, monandromr, two to u together, capita 
3, perianth, laid open ; 4, stamens ; .">, ovary -.—a 
§ 2. Lean '■■ Floicers capitate. 
2. Pimelea gracilis (Br. Prodr. 362) ; ramis gracilibus foliisque subtus prtecipue appresse pilosis 
sericeisve, foliis alternis v. inferioribus oppositis lineari-lanceolatis oWongisre, capitnrifl axillaribus termina- 
libusque sessilibus foliis caulinis 2-3 involucratis, perianthii tubo gracili sericeo foliis aequilongo, limbi lobis 
oblongis obtusis, filamentis brevibus, stylo incluso.— Calyptrostegia gracilis, C. A. Meyer in Bullet. Acad. 
St. Petersb. iv. 71. {Gunn, 25.) 
Hab. Common by the banks of streams, etc., near Hobarton, New Norfolk, Launceston, etc.-(U. 
Nov.) (v.v.) 
Distrib. Victoria, Mueller. 
A slender bush, about 2 feet high. Stems erect or ascending, brai 
under-surfaces of the leaves, and perianth. Leaves alternate and opposite, , inch long, Unear-o ) ong 
ceolate, with recurved margins. Heads of ' fimcers axillary and • . 
not by special bracts. Perianth generally yellow, slen 
Mueller sends from Victoria as a variety of this a prostrate, densely tufted plant, wrtli 
stems, and broader, more usually opposite leaves; it is his var. alpina, from the Snowy River and summits of the 
MuuvaiUi' Mountains. 
§ 3. Leaves all opposite. Floicers in terminal and axillary capitula. Drupe baccate. 
3. Pimelea drupacea (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. 10. t. 7) ; frutex orgyalis erectus, ramis elongatis virga- 
