terminal, nearly globular, about three quarters of an inch or nearly 
an inch in diameter. FLOWERS numerous, sessile, on a receptacle 
clothed with long dense white hairs. Prrtcon of a pale pink or 
nearly white colour, very downy, the tube about five lines long, the 
lower persistent part a little swollen; the divisions of the limb oblong, 
blunt, about a line and a half long. Stamens about the length of 
the divisions of the perigon, perfectly smooth as well as the inside of 
the perigon. 
Poputar aND GeEocrapHicaL Notice. The numerous genus 
Pimelea appears to extend over the whole of the Australian continent 
and Van Dieman’s Land, soine species having been brought from 
almost every part hitherto discovered, and almost every collection 
transmitted to this country adds one or more new ones. It is also 
represented by some species in New Zealand. As a genus, the group 
is perfectly distinct, for although allied in habit and in the structure 
of the flower to some Daphnes, or others belonging to the same 
natural order, the constant reduction of the number of stamens to two 
is a sure and easy character, independently of the geographical station. 
The species here figured is a common Van Dieman’s Land plant, 
though scarce in our greenhouses; it is very near to the Pimelea nivea 
of Labillardiere, with which it has been sometimes confounded, too 
much reliance having been placed on the form of the leaf which varies 
in both.from ovate to orbicular. The true plant of Labillardiere 
appears to be of taller growth; the leaves are much more crowded, 
and the down of the branches and under side of the leaves is closer 
and thicker, not having at all the appearance of hairs without the 
assistance of a glass. It is not, however, at all improbable that the 
two supposed species may be mere varieties of each other, 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTuRE. The Pimelea incana 
is said to have been first introduced into this country in 1824, but 
although seeds of it have frequently been imported of late years, it is 
as yet very scarce in our collections. The plant here figured was 
raised at Messrs. Lowe’s Nursery, at Clapton. Planted in sandy peat 
and loam, and kept in a light part of the greenhouse, it will flower 
abundantly. 
DeERIvATION OF THE Nam 
Pimetea, said to be derived from wriedy PIMELE, “fat, but the application is 
hoa. 
not very clear. Incana hoary. 
SynonyMEs. 
PimELeA tncana. Brown: Prodromus, p. 361. 
PIMELEA NIVEA, Knomiea: Floral Cabinet, t. 9, not of Labillardiere. 
