PIMELE’A INCA'NA. 
™ HOARY PIMELEA. 
OR DICOTYLEDONEZ, 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs, 
NATURAL ORDER, THYMELACEA. 
MONOCHLAMYDE®, Ve Artificial a} DIANDRIA, 
OF x 9) i to which MoNoayNt4, 
DECANDOLLE. - this Plant Baas 
No. 147. 
GENUS. Prweres. Banxs et Sotanper. Ftores hermaphroditi vel 
dioici. PrRieon1om coloratum, infundibuliforme, limbo quadrifido, fauce 
esquam Sramsna duo fauci inserta, peregonii laciniis exterioribus oppe- 
sita, exserta. Squamuta# hypogyne nulle. ARIUM uniloculare. OvuLtumM 
unicum, pendulum, anatropum. Srtytus lateralis. Str capi Nox 
cotticatic ‘as accata. SEMEN cbs: ALBUMEN parcum, cavhiodeitl. 
Empryo orthotropus. Frutices Australasice. Fotta opposita vel rarissime 
alterna. Fores capitati, terminales ee. rarius spicati vel axillares. 
Enpuicuer: Genera Plantarum, p. 330, 
SPECIES. cima INCANA. (Brown.) Fouts ovatis orbiculatisve mar- 
gine recurvis subtus ramisque tomenioso-pobescentiba incanis, floralibus 
similibus faplindo mest brevioribus 
CHARACTER OF THE Genus, PimeLEs. FLowers hermaphrodite _ 
or diecious. PEricon coloured, funnel-shaped; the limb four-cleft; 
the throat without scales. STAMENs two, inserted in the throat oppo- 
site the outer divisions of the perigon, projecting beyond the tube. 
HypoGynous ScaLes none. Ovary one-celled. Ovutxe solitary, 
pendulous, anatropous. Sryxe lateral. Sricma capitate. Nur of 
a bushy consistence, or rarely a berry. Seep inverted. ALBUMEN 
scanty, fleshy, Emsryo orthotropous. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, PIMELEA INCANA. A much 
branched shrub of several feet in height, the branches round and 
more or less covered with a whitish down which is thicker and longer 
on the young branches, and often forms a thick tuft at the origin of 
the leaves; in the longer and more rigorous branches it is much 
thinner and looser. LEAvEs opposite, almost sessile, varying from 
orbicular to ovate, and from three to six lines in length, very blunt, 
convex with the edges turned down, thick, quite smooth on the upper 
surface, covered underneath with a thick whitish down like that of the 
branches; the distance between the pairs of leaves about equal to 
their length, or longer; the floral leaves similar to those of the stem, 
and rather shorter than the flowers. Heaps OF FLOWERS compact, 
