No. 88. 
PIMELEA ROSEA. 
Class. Order. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Only two or at most three of this beautiful 
genus are known in Europe; although no 
less than thirty-four species have been seen 
in a living state, and described by the learned 
Mr. Brown. They are all natives of New 
Holland. Doubtless numbers more, as yet 
unbeheld by scientific eye, exist in that most 
productive country. 
We cannot help indulging the hope, that 
those ample harvests of new plants which 
there await the collector's hand, may induce 
some enterprising spirits to venture on the 
pleasing, though arduous task, of getting in 
more of these attractive treasures. 
Our present subject requires the usual 
greenhouse treatment; it grows pretty well 
in sandy peat soil, and flowers abundantly 
during the summer months; the blossoms 
are sometimes succeeded by perfect seed, 
which is by far the readiest mode of increase, 
as it is always very difficult to propagate by 
cuttings. 
