Pimelca.] 
CXII. THYMELiEACE/E. 
1369 
i. 831; Calyptrostegia gracilis, Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. part 2, 61 ; P. congesta, 
A. Cunn. Herb, non R. Cunn. ; P. thymifolia, Presl. Bot. Bern. 107 ; P. Mueller i, 
Meissn, in Linnsea, xxvi. 351, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 512. 
Hab.: Southern Downs country. 
Var. sericea. More silky, the leaves often hairy on both sides. Flowers sometimes rather 
larger, sometimes rather smaller and all female on some specimens both of this and the 
following variety. P. propinqua, A. Cunn., Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 512. — Stanthorpe. 
Var. pedunculata. More luxuriant, the leaves often £ to lin. long. Flower-heads some- 
times almost sessile in the axils as in the typical forms, but often on slender lateral or axillary 
peduncles (or flowering branches) J to lin., flowers rather larger. — Warwick, Beclrfer ; Darling 
Downs, Laic-, to border of N. S. Wales. 
20. P. altior (taller), F. v. M. Fragm. i. 84 ; Benth. FI. Austr. vi. 32. A 
much-branched spreading shrub, attaining 5 or 6ft., hirsute with short spreading 
hairs. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, from broadly ovate or orbicular and 
under Jin. long, to oblong elliptical and H to 3in. long, flat, shortly hirsute on 
both sides. Flower-heads terminal or in the forks, with 2 to 4 involucral bracts 
similar to the stem-leaves but deciduous. Flowers not numerous. Perianth 
hirsute with more or less spreading hairs, the tube slender, about 3 lines long, 
circumsciss after flowering shortly above the ovary, the lobes about 1 line long. 
Filaments very short; anthers large, oblong, with a broad dorsal connective, the 
cells closely parallel on the inner face. Fruit about 2 lines long, the epicarp 
thinly membranous. Seed with a scanty albumen and ovate cotyledons. 
Hab.: Brisbane River. Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller ; Archer’s Creek, Leic liardt. Common on 
the borders of southern scrubs. 
2. WICKSTRCEMIA, Endl. 
(After Im. Wickstrom.) 
Perianth tubular, with a spreading 4-lobed limb without scales in the throat. 
Stamens 8, the anthers sessile, those opposite the perianth-lobes inserted in the 
throat, the alternate ones in the tube. Hypogynous scales 4, free or more or less 
united in pairs. Ovary with one pendulous ovule ; style very short. Fruit a 
berry-like drupe, the epicarp succulent sometimes thin, the endocarp coriaceous 
or erustaceous. Seed without albumen. — Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or 
rarely here and there alternate. Flowers in short terminal or axillary racemes 
spikes or heads, without involucral bracts. 
The genus extends over a great part of tropical Asia and the islands of the Archipelago and 
the Pacific. The only Australian species has a wide range over the area of the genus. 
1. W. indica (of India), C. A. Mey. in Bull. Acacl. Sc. Petersb. i. (1843) 
357 ; Benth. Bl. Austr. vi. 87. A shrub, sometimes low and spreading, some- 
times almost arborescent, glabrous or the slender branches slightly silky-hairy. 
Leaves from ovate and obtuse to ovate-lanceolate and acute or oblong-lanceolate 
and tapering at both ends, rarely above 2in. long and sometimes all under lin., 
usually rather thin and glabrous. Flowers few together, very shortly pedicellate 
in small terminal heads sometimes growing out into short spikes, the common 
peduncle usually under 4 lines long, erect or slightly recurved. Perianth of a 
greenish yellow, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs, the tube scarcely 3 lines 
long, the lobes about 1 line. Hypognous scales 4, small and narrow, approximate 
in opposite pairs and sometimes the two connate at the base. Drupe red, oval, 
about Jin. long, the endocarp rather hard. — Meissn. in DC. Prod, xiv, 543 ; 
Daphne indica, Linn. Sp. PL i. 511 ; R. Br. Prod. 362 ; Hook, and Arn. Bot. 
Beech, t. 15 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 1 ; W. fcetida, A. Grey, in Seem. Journ. Bot. 
iii. 302 ; Seem. FI. Yit. 207 ; IF. Sliuttlewortliii , Meissn. in Denkschr. Regensb. 
