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THYMELAEACEAE. 
Pimelea Williamsonii, nov. sp. (tab. vi.). Fruticulus 
totus sericeo-villosus circiter 20 cm. altus, ramis erectis ve 
ascendentibus, folis alternis confertis subimbricatis oblongo- 
lanceolatis planis 10-15 mm. longis, floribus bisexualibus, spicis 
pedunculatis ramulos terminantibus primum ovoideis com- 
pactis et foliis supremis obtectis sed non involucratis demum 
"sque ad 7 cm. elongatis, perianthio 4-5 mm. longo post 
á. 
South Australia.—Parilla (W. Gill Herbarium). 
ictori illi 
This species is named after Mr. H. B. Williamson, the 
Well-known Victorian botanist and collector, who discove 
X at Murrayville, 15 miles east of Pinnaroo, in 1917, and 
two species named also in the smaller fruit, obtuse 
ànd ventricose almost from the summit, instead of gradually 
Swollen towards the ase, and in t ed and smoother 
pee is not that of the Flora Australiensis, but accords with the 
ater view adopted by Bentham and Hooker in the Genera 
antarum, and by other recent botanists who have dealt 
| not extend above the ovary, while in P. petrophila it 
does šo extend, is illusory. Both in the yellow- owered typical 
m of P. flava, found in the Eastern States, and in the 
diosmifolia, the tube extends 1-14 mm. above the ovary 
