PIMELBA INTERMEDIA. INTERMEDIATE PIMELEA. 
Class III. DIANDRIA.— Order I. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, BURSERIACE^. 
Character of the Genus Pimelea. Perianth funnel-shaped, limb four-cleft, throat without 
scales. Stamens two, inserted into the throat, opposite to the outer segments. Style lateral. Stigma 
capitate. Nut with a hard external coat, rarely berried. 
Description of the Species, Pimelea intermedia. Shrub slender, erect, with long, straight, 
almost filiform branches, which are covered with brownish-yellow, glabrous, craked, bark. Leaves (three- 
quarters of an inch long, about two lines broad) glaucous, glabrous on both sides, with a distinct mid-rib, 
but no conspicuous veins, linear-lanceolate, inclining to spathulate on the branches, becoming ovate and 
shorter towards the capitulum, which is many-flowered and terminal. Flowers white, longer than the in- 
volucre which scarcely differs from the ordinary leaves of the plant. Perianth surrounded at its base with 
long erect hairs, tomentose on the outside, striated, dilated over the germen, and diaphanous between the 
striee at this part; segments of the limb subequal, elliptical, with slightly involute edges. Stamens at first 
erect afterwards reflexed on the limb, and shorter than it. Anthers oblong, pollen bright orange. Germen 
oblong, pale, green, glabrous. Style filiform, glabrous, longer than the perianth; stigma minute, capitate, 
bear< PopuLAR AND Geographical Notice. The genus Pimelea is widely distributed along the coasts 
of Australia and in Van Diemen’s Land, and a few species are found in New Zealand. Many of them are 
verv ornamental, and the more popular in cultivation on account of the facility of management of the 
greater number, and the profusion of flowers which they produce. The present species is native of King 
George’s Sound. ' _ . . ^ ,, T 5 
Introduction; Where grown; Culture. I believe this plant was first raised at Mr Lows 
nursery, Clapton, from seed gathered by Mr. Baxter, its discoverer. In the arrangement of the species it 
must be placed in the section in which the floral leaves and those of the branches are subsimilar, and 
should stand next to Pimelea sylvestris. It is of slender growth, about two feet high, has not perfected 
seeds, but is easily propagated by cuttings, and grows readily in peat soil, mixed with sand, under the pro- 
tection of the greenhouse. „ , 
Derivation of the Name. Pimelea, said to be from fat. The trees yield very fat oil and resin. 
A description of the glories of this month — the forerunner of bounteous autumn — would be a volume 
of splendid beauties; it is, for the most part, executed by the Author of the Months; “Our moral being 
owes deep obligations to all who assist us to study nature aright; for, believe us, it is high and-rare know- 
ledge to know, and to have, the full and true use of our eyes. Millions go to the grave in old age without 
ever having learned it ; they were just beginning perhaps to acquire it, when they sighed to think that 
‘they who look out. of the windows were darkened;’ and that, while they had been instructed how to look 
sad shadows had fallen on the whole face of nature; and that the time for those intuitions was gone for 
But the science of seeing has now found favor in our eyes ; and ‘blessings are with them and eternal 
who can discover, discern, and describe the least as the greatest of nature’s works; who can see as 
distinctly the finger of God in the little humming-bird murmuring around a rose-bush, as in that of ‘the 
star of Jove, so beautiful and large,’ shining sole in heaven.— Take up now almost any book you may, or 
any branch of natural history, and instead of the endless dry details of imaginary systems and classifications, 
in which the ludicrous littleness of man’s vain ingenuity used to be set up as a sort of symbolical scheme 
of revelation of the sublime varieties of the inferior— as we choose to call it— creation of God, you find high 
attempts in a humble spirit rather to illustrate tendencies, and uses, and harmonies, and order, and design. 
ever. 
praise 
