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CXII. TIIYMEL^EACEiE. 
[ Pimelea . 
16. P. flava (yellow), B. Br. Prod. 361; Benth. FI. Austr. vi. 29. An 
erect shrub, with opposite or forked usually virgate branches, slightly silky- 
hairy or nearly glabrous, the whole plant often turning blue-green in drying. 
Leaves opposite, obovate oblong or almost orbicular, flat, more or less coriaceous, 
glabrous, prominently 1 -nerved or rarely showing also the lateral veins, mostly 
2 to 4 lines but sometimes nearly fin. long. Flower-heads terminal, with 
4 involucral bracts, larger and broader than the stem leaves, either rather longer 
or shorter than the flowers. Flowers white or yellowish, dioecious. Male 
perianth-tube about 14 lines long, 4he lobes about half as long. Filaments 
short ; anthers with a narrow connective and the cells very distinct, but often 
somewhat turned inwards. Female perianth about 14 lines long when in flower, 
2 lines when in fruit, divided to the ovary into 4 very small rounded lobes. — 
Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 510 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 333 ; Calyptostegia flava, 
Endl. Gen. PI. Suppl. iv. part 2, 61. 
Hab.: Mount Mistake. 
17. P. Bowmanni (after E. Bowman), F. v. M.\ Benth. FI. Austr. vi. 
30. An erect shrub, softly silky-hairy all over. Leaves alternate, crowded, 
sessile, oblong-lanceolate,- 1-nerved, f to fin. long, silky on both sides. Flowers 
solitary in the upper axils. Perianth-tubes rather slender, shortly and equally 
silky-villous, about 2 lines long, circumsciss above the ovary after flowering, the 
lobes more than half as long. Anthers in some specimes all abortive, in others 
with longer perianth-lobes, they are oblong, with a broad dorsal connective, the 
cells parallel on the inner face but more prominent and distinct than in most 
Epallages. 
Hab.: Broadsound, E. Bowman. 
18. P. penicillaris (like a painter’s pencil, the hairs of flowers), F. v. M. 
Chem. and Drug., Oct. 1883. A shrub clothed all over with silvery silky- 
hairs. Leaves sessile crowded, ovate-lanceolate, alternate or nearly opposite, 
flat. Involucral bracts 8, broadly cordate, silky on both sides. Flowers dioecious 
in dense heads. Calyx-rather small with long silky hairs. Style glabrous. 
Ovary silky towards the summit. Male flow r ers and fruit unknown. 
Hab.: Inland towards the border of N. S. Wales. 
19. P. curviflora (flowers curved), B. Br. Prod. 362 ; Benth. FI. Austr. 
vi. 31. A shrub or undershrub much branched especially near the base, with 
wiry ascending or erect branches, attaining 1 to 2ft., more or less silky-hairy. 
Leaves alternate or here and there opposite, varying in breadth, rarely fin. long 
and often not fin., glabrous above, sprinkled or clothed with appressed hairs 
underneath. Flowers small, hermaphrodite or female, in little heads really 
terminal but mostly appearing axillary from the shortness of the flow'ering 
branches, the involucral bracts few, usually 2 only, small and unequal. Perianth 
silky-hairy, the tube slender, usually curved below the middle, 2 to 24 lines long, 
circumsciss about the middle after flowering, the upper portion falling off very 
early, leaving the style shortly protruding from the persistent base, the lobes not 
above half as long as the tube, the two inner ones sometimes smaller than the 
outer ones. Filaments very short ; anthers with a very broad convex dorsal 
connective, the cells closely parallel on the inner face. Fruiting base of tbe 
perianth somewhat curved and contracted into a neck, the fruit itself shortly 
acuminate ; epicarp membranous, endocarp not conspicuously hooked at the top. 
Seed apparently with a scanty albumen and broad cotyledons, but not seen very 
perfect.— Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 512; Budge in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 285, 
t. 13; Calyptrostegia curviflora, C. A. Mey. in Bull. Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 74 ; 
P. gracilis, B. lir. Prod. 362 ; Meissn. in DC. xiv. 512 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. 
