Pimelea.] 
CXII. TIIYMELiEACEiE. 
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Sect. 3. Dithalamia. — l lowers (small) strictly dioecious. Male perianth with a slender 
tube ; anthers with a narrow connective , the cells very distinct, and after they are open placed 
back to back ; ovary abortive or rudimentary . Female perianth wholly persistent with small lobes 
divided to the ovary , or rarely with a short tube and tardily circumscixs. Fruit not at all, or 
slightly succulent. Leaves opposite, flat, or nearly so. 
Flower-clusters all axillary. Lateral veins nearly parallel to to the 
midrib. Male perianth-tube 4 to 5 lines long 13. P. leptospermoides. 
Flower-clusters terminal, or in the forks. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, mostly £ to lin. lorg. 
Flowers more or less silky hairy 14. 1’. microcephala. 
Flowers quite glabrous 15. F. paucidora. 
Erect, shortly dichotomous shrubs. Flowers silky-villous. Leaves 
mostly obtuse. Female perianth-tube not produced above the ovary 16. F. flara. 
Sect. 4. Epallag’e.— Flowers hermaphrodite or more or less diwcious. Perianth-tube 
usually circumsciss after flowering, leaving the loicer portion persistent round the fruit. Anthers 
rather flat, ivitli a broad dorsal connective, the cells closely parallel on the inner face, the whole- 
anther usually rolled back after dowering. Flowers in clusters or heads, rarely solitary, or in 
dense oblong spikes. 
Flowers strictly diceeious. Leaves alternate, softly silky-villous. Flowers 
solitary in the upper axils. Female perianth shortly and equally 
silky-villous 17. F. Bowmanni. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or in some specimens female. 
Softly villous plants. Flowers small, bracts 2 or rarely 4, unequal and 
deciduous. 
Hairs spreading. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, sessile 18. F penicillaris. 
Hairs appressed. Leaves mostly oblong, rarely Ain. long 19. F. curviflora. 
Hairs scarcely spreading. Leaves ovate or oblong, £ to ljin. long. 
Flowers rather larger 20. F. altior. 
1. P. cornucopiae (resembling the Horn of Plenty), T 'aid. F.num. i. 805; 
Benth. FI. Austr. vi. 6. An erect glabrous rather stiff annual of about 1ft. 
Leaves alternate or the lower ones opposite, sessile or nearly so, lanceolate or 
oblong-linear, obtuse or nearly acute, mostly f to lAin. long. Flower-heads on 
a terminal peduncle. Involucre turbinate with a long tapering base, about Ain. 
diameter, divided to near the middle into broad acute lobes, with the midribs 
alone conspicuous. Flowers numerous, usually whitish, on short flattened 
pedicels within the involucre at or near its base. Perianths scarcely protruding 
beyond the involucral lobes, the slender tube about 2 lines long, circumsciss after 
flowering shortly above the ovary, the lobes small and obtuse. Filaments very 
short ; anthers ovate, with a narrow connective. Epicarp membranous. Seed 
with a scanty albumen and broad cotyledons. — R. Br. Prod. 359; Meissn. in DC. 
Prod. xiv. 496 ; Thecanthes cornucopia, AYikstr. in Trans. R. Acad. Stockh. 1818, 
271 ; Calyptrostcyia cornucopia;, Endl. Gen. PI. Suppl. iv. part. 2, 60. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham; Port Curtis, Keppel Bay, 
Shoalwater Bay, Broadsound. R. Brown; Cape York, Daemel ; Port Denison, Fitzalaii; 
Burdekin River, Bowman ; Rockhampton and Rockingham Bay, Thozet and others. 
2. P. sanguinea (flowers blood-red), F. r. M. Frarpn. i. 84, and vii. 3; 
Benth. FI. Austr. vi. 7. A glabrous annual, at first simple, but soon branching 
from the base into numerous decumbent or ascending simple or slightly branched 
stems, seldom exceeding Gin. Leaves more crowded than in the allied species, 
oblong-linear or lanceolate, obtuse or rather acute, A to f or rarely lin. long. 
Flower-heads shortly pedunculate or almost sessile above the last leaves. Involucre 
rather broad, divided nearly to the base into ovate acute lobes of about Ain., 
the midrib prominent and a few faint lateral veins at the base. Perianths red, 
much shorter than the involucre, the tube not 2 lines long, the lobes scarcely 
above A line and obtuse. Stamens shorter than the lobes, with the short anthers 
of P. cornucopia. 
Hab.: Upper Roper River, F. v. Mueller; Cape River, Bowman ; Norman and Gilbert Rivers, 
Gulliver. 
A specimen from alluvial flats, Mount King, Glenelg district, Martin, referred byF. v Mueller* 
Fragm., vii. 3. to P. sanguinea, with the evidently red flowers of that species, lias the habit and 
involucres of P. cornucopia ; but it is insufficient to determine absolutely its affinities. 
