THYMELACEiE . 



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PIMELEA. 



Gen. Char. (Diandria Monogynia) Flowers having no corolla ; 

 calyx funnel-shaped, with a four-cleft limb, stigma capitate. 



The name seems to be derived from the Greek for fat. 

 This is a handsome genus of greenhouse shrubs from Aus- 

 tralia. P. hyjpericina is a slender ornamental shrub, with nu- 

 merous heads of pale yellow flowers, appearing from March 

 to June ; it is a hardy greenhouse plant, and thrives vigor- 

 ously. P. graciliflora has pure white flowers with a slender 

 thread-formed tube, and narrow leaves; it flowers very 

 freely, and the beautiful blossoms, continue a long time 

 unfaded ; P. longiflora has large and globose heads of pure 

 white blossoms terminating the wavy and slender branches ; 

 P. syhestris has pink and white flowers, and should have 

 an airy greenhouse ; P. lanata and Niejojoergiana have white 

 flowers; P. hisjoida has red flowers in heads, the calyx 

 densely clothed with long, rather stiff hairs, so that the 

 flowers look feathery ; in Edwards' Botanical Eegister it is 

 said that "these hairs are long, very transparent tubes, 

 with a considerable number of minute particles within their 

 cavity, showing that motion in the fluids of plants which 

 forms so curious a species of circulation in their system, 



