FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Tkymeleee. 
spathulata, Lab. Nov. IIoll. i. 9. t. 4. P. nutans, Meisn. in Linnata, xxvi. 348. Calyptrostegia 
;a, 0. A. Meyer in Bullet. Acad. St. Petersb. iv. 71. (Gum, 623, 1244.) 
Hab. Common in dry, sandy tracts, throughout the Island. — (Fl. Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria. 
A very pretty plant, 2 feet or so high, with a slender, very sparingly branched, glabrous stem, bearing erect, 
linear or linear-oblong or linear-spathulate leaves, |~| inch long, and terminal, nodding, many-flowered heads.— 
Leaves one-nerved, quite glabrous, not thickened or recurved at the margin. Bracteal leaves ovate, acute, glabrous. 
Flowers cream-coloured, the tube silky, but not so densely as to be white. — M his from Smith's 
P. Uniform by the nodding capitula, smaller, less pubescent flowers, and exserted style, but a large suite of specimens 
shows occasional individuals with all these chaiacteis 
11. Pimelea linifolia (Smith, PL Nov. Holl. 31. t. 11); fruticulus glaber erectus, ramis gracilibus 
glaberrimis, foliis lineari-oblongis lanceolatis spathulatisve 1-nerviis marginibus planis, capitulis multinoris 
terminalibus erectis, bracteis 4 ovatis acutis glabris capitulo brevioribus, perianthiis medio articulatis dense 
Bericeis.— Br. Prodr. 359 ; Bot. Mag. t. 89. Calyptrostegia linifolia, C. A. Meyer in Bullet. Acad. St. 
Petersb. iv. 71. 
Hab. Tasmania, Brown. 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, common, from Port Jackson to Victoria. (Cultivated in England.) 
I have seen no Tasmanian specimens of this plant ; what Gunn sends under the name (No. 1244, saying that 
it is easily distinguished by Brown's characters from P. cernua) is only a small specimen of cernua, having neither 
the densely silky perianths nor upright capitula of P. linifolia. These two species are however very nearly allied, 
and may merge into one. I have examined forms of both from Southern Australia (some of Mueller's especially), 
that prove them both to be extremely variable. 
12. Pimelea glauca (Br. Prodr. 360) ; fruticulus suberectus v. prostratus, ramis ramulisque glaber- 
rimis, foliis erectis imbricatis obovato-oblongis lauceolatisve acutis subcarinatis glaucis coriaceis, capitulis 
terminalibus erectis, bracteis 4 ovatis acutis 2 interioribus ciliatis, perianthiis supra articulationem sericeis, 
rachi penicillata.— Budge in Linn. Trans, x. 286. t. 13. /. 2. Calyptrostegia glauca, C. A. Meyer in 
Bullet. Acad. St. Petersb. iv. 71. (Gunn, 441, 732, 733, 872.) 
Hab. Common in light sandy soil, especially upon the north coasts. — (Fl. Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, from Port Jackson to Melbourne. (Cultivated in England.) 
Generally a small and prostrate species, though some of my specimens are erect and twiggy. — Stem, branches, 
and foliage quite glabrous. Leaves |— | inch long, erect, imbricating, coriaceous, glaucous, ovate or obovate-lanceo- 
late or oblong, acute, with a strong dorsal costa. Heads terminal, erect. Bracts ovate, acute, the two inner more 
or less (generally deeply) ciliated. Flowers silky, their general receptacle covered with long, snow-white hairs. 
§ 6. Leaves all op L ■-,>< , g abrous. Coj it. > , (, nninal. Involucral leaves scarcely differing in form from the cauline. 
13. Pimelea humilis (Br. Prodr. 361) ; nana, caulibus erectis prostratisve breviusculis pubescenti- 
bus villosisve, foliis oblongis lineari-oblougisve obtusis utrinque glabris 1-nerviis, capitulis terminalibus 
erectis multifloris, bracteis 4 oblongis ovato-oblongisve obtusis, perianthiis sericeis. — Bot. Reg. 1268. 
[Gunn, 5, 197.) 
Hab. Abundant in dry hills and pastures throughout the Island.— (Fl. Oct., Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia ; Victoria. (Cultivated in England.) 
A small generally prostrate, and much branched species, readily distinguished by the pubescent or villous 
stems and branches, 2-8 inches high, oblong, blunt, glabrous leaves, and glabrous bracteal leaves, which are also 
blunt, rather broader than the cauline, sometimes ovate, and often margined with red. 
