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LXVII. THYMELEjE. 
— Perianth inferior, tubular campanulate or urceolate ; limb 4-lobed, imbricate; 
throat naked or with glands. Stamens inserted on the tube of the perianth, 
usually 2 or 4, rarely more, then in 2 series, the upper opposite its lobes. 
Ovary 1-eelled ; style lateral or terminal, stigma capitate ; ovule usually 
solitary, pendulous. Fruit a nut drape or berry, 1-seeded. Seed pendulous ; 
testa usually thin ; albumen 0, scanty or abundant ; cotyledons plano- 
convex. 
A large European, Oriental, South African, Australian, and New Zealand Order (to which 
the Daphne and Mezereou belong), comparatively rare elsewhere. The bark yields excellent 
fibre ; paper is made of it in India, China, and Japan. The above character does not in- 
clude the tribe Aquilariece ; Indian trees yielding Aloes- or Eagle-wood, in which the ovary 
is 2-celkd and fruit capsular. 
Stamens 2 1. Pimelea. 
Stamens 4 2. Drapetes. 
1. PIMELEA, Banks and Solander. 
Shrubs, much branched, erect or prostrate. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, 
often imbricate ; florals sometimes larger and whorled, forming an involucre. 
Flowers capitate, white rosy or yellow. — Perianth tubular, coloured ; limb 4- 
lobed, throat naked. Stamens 2, opposite the outer perianth-lobes ; filaments 
slender. Ovary ovoid ; style lateral, slender. Fruit dry or baccate, naked or 
included within the perianth-tube. Albumen scanty or copious. — Banksia, 
Porst. Char. Gen. ; Passerma, Forst. Prodr. ; Cookia, Gmelin. 
A very extensive Australian and New Zealand genus, not found elsewhere, extremely vari- 
able in foliage. In the New Zealand species the periauth is not jointed in the middle as in 
many Australian ones, and the nut is often enclosed in the persistent tube of the perianth, which 
is membranous or fleshy. The species are most variable, and difficult of discrimination. 
I have forms that appear intermediate between the best-marked species. 
Erect shrubs. Branches and leaves perfectly glabrous. 
Leaves 1-2 in., lanceolate. Flowers £ in 1. P. longfolia. 
Leaves 4~ f in., oblong or lanceolate. Flower? 4 in. ; .... 2. P. Gnidia. 
Leaves 4~ 4 in., oblong or obovate, obtuse. Florets large .... 3. P. Traversii. 
Erect , rarely prostrate shrubs. Branches silky villous or pubescent. 
Leaves -j-1 in., lanceolate, glabrate pilose or silky 4. P. virgata. 
Leaves 4 in., coriaceous, keeled, glabrous, floral large 5. P. buxifolia. 
Leaves 4-4 in., with appressed, shining, silky hairs below .... 6. P. arenaria. 
Procumbent or prostrate, rarely erect shrubs. Branches pubescent or villous. 
Branches villous with white hairs. Leaves 4 in., very thick, obtuse, 
glabrous 7 ■ P. Urvilleana. 
Branches grey. Leaves -Ug— 4 in., glabrous, oblong or lanceolate . 8. P. prostrata. 
Branches silky. Leaves 4~4 in-, silky, oblong or lanceolate . . . 9 . P. Lyallii. 
Branches villous. Leaves 4-4 in., silky-villous above and below, 
linear-oblong, obtuse 10. P. sericeo-vil/osa. 
1. P. longifolia, Banks and Sol.; — FI. N. Z. i. 220. A small, erect 
shrub, 2-6 ft. high, perfectly glabrous, the inflorescence excepted. Leaves 
crowded, not imbricate, very shortly petioled, spreading, 1-2 in. long, 
broad, oblong- or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, flat, often glaucous below ; 
veins distinct ; floral similar or rather broader. Flowers numerous, silky, | 
