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PIMELEA NIVEA. 



be cinereous, not tomentose. There is a plant in collections under the name of 

 incana, but most assuredly different from that described by Dr. Brown : it has 

 lanceolate, smooth, and acute leaves ; and has somewhat of the aspect of sylvestris, 

 but not having seen it in flower, we are unable to speak of it at present with 

 any degree of certainty. 



The genus contains about forty species, all shrubs, natives of New Holland 

 and Van Dieman's Land. Our present plant is in the collection of the Bir- 

 mingham Botanical and Horticultural Society : it is exceedingly rare, and is 

 probably the only one that has ever been seen in a living state in this country. 

 This plant was obtained from seeds presented to the Society by Joseph Hodgson, 

 Esq., who received them from Walter Buchanan, Esq., of London, for whom 

 they were collected by a medical friend residing in New South Wales. 



It requires to be kept in a cool and airy part of the green-house ; the soil 

 should be light sandy peat, mixed with a small portion of loam, with plenty of 

 drainers. When the plants are shifted into larger pots, the balls ought to be 

 gradually raised at each successive shifting till the centre is some inches above 

 the rim, in order to prevent the plants going off prematurely. The plant has 

 not yet been propagated, but it may probably be effected in the same manner as 

 with others of the genus, viz., by cuttings of the young wood, stuck in sand, 

 with or without glasses ; by seeds, and by inarching upon other free-growing 

 species. 



The generic name, Pimelea, is considered to be formed from in/xeArj, fat ; 

 its specific name, nivea, from the Latin adjective niveus, snowy, as expressive of 

 the peculiarly white appearance of the tomentose branches and under surface 

 of the leaves. 



