is only a variety of Pimelea decussata, distinguished by its darker 
rose-coloured flowers, its more ciliated involucrum, and its dense, 
small, more crowded capitula: it is, however, enumerated as a species 
in the first additional supplement of Loudon’s admirable catalogue, 
and figured as such in the Botanical Cabinet. It very nearly resem- 
bles Pimelea Hendersonii, distinguishable chiefly by its smaller capi- 
tula, and its less acute foliage, and, I fear, is a link by which this will 
also be united to Pimelea decussata, which is known to be a variable 
species. The form now described is very handsome, very worthy of 
cultivation, and readily distinguishable. The genus Pimelea, as far 
as yet known, is confined almost exclusively to New Holland and 
Van Dieman’s Land, a few species only being natives of New Zea- 
land. The species are generally pretty, some very handsome, and 
have become such favourites in cultivation, that although in 1810, 
when the second edition of Hortus Kewensis was published, only one 
species was mentioned, there are now twenty-five species enumerated 
in Loudon’s Hortus Britannicus, exclusive of the Pimelea Hendersonii, 
and the form which has given rise to these remarks. I have no infor- 
mation as to the native country of this, but have no doubt of its being 
New Holland, and the species of which I consider it a variety was 
found by Mr. Brown on the southern coast. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. It was introduced 
to this country in the year 1837, from Liege, as above stated. The 
drawing was made from a plant which flowered in the Edinburgh 
Botanic Garden, in June last. It should be known to cultivators that 
the Pimeleas do not generally admit of being subjected to full expo- 
sure throughout the summer months, without injury. They flourish 
most completely during the warm season by being kept in a pit or 
frame, where the sashes can be put over them in rainy weather and 
hot sunshine. The present species may be increased by cuttings, 
planted in sand, under glass. It should be potted in rough sandy 
peat, in which it will flower most abundantly. Grau. 
a OF THE NaMEs. 
Pimexea from tyedn PIMELE, fat, on what account is not obvious, unless the 
fresh fruit of some species scala fatty matter. Decussata, from the Latin, 
signifying crosswise; used in allusion to the leaves, which are arranged in 
pairs, = t alternately cross each other. Diosma#rozia, haying leaves like 
a Dio ; 
SyNnonyMeE. 
PimELEA DIOsMZFoutA. Bot. Cab. 1708. 
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