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fpecies flowered the preceding year at Sion Houfe. It 
is a native of the coafl: of New South Wales, among rocks, 
as we believe are all the fpecies of Pimelea. The genus 
was fir ft publiflied by Forfter in his Nova Plant arum 
Genera^ and there called Bankjia ; but every fpecies of 
which it is compofed having been referred by the 
younger Linnieus to Pajferina, and he having in the 
fame work named another tribe of plants after Sir Jofeph 
Banks, Gxrtner, in reftoring the original genus of 
Forfter, adopted the name of Pimelea from the manu- 
fcripts of Dr. Solander. It is derived from 7r///gA«, fat, 
but is rather a pleafantly founding, than a very apt de- 
nomination, unlefs there may be any thing oily in the 
recent fruit. In natural affinity Pimelea nearly approaches 
Pajferina and Daphne^ but their number of ftamina 
being fo very different, furely juftffies us in keeping it 
feparate from them. In this natural order we are not 
yet indeed quite clear upon what principles genera ought 
to be difcriminated, and therefore dare not undertake to 
remove the great uncertainty in which all authors have 
left them. 
Pimelea linifolia has a fmall zigzag root^ from which 
arifes a ftraight round fmooth upright Jlem^ branched 
irregularly for the moft part, though fometimes ap- 
pearing dichotomous, in confequence of the young 
branches fpringing in pairs from the upper part of the 
old flowering ones. The bark is reddifli, cracking longi- 
tudinally; its inner layer remarkably fllky, which is 
