PIME'LEA INTERME'DIA 
INTERMEDIATE PIMELEA. 
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NATURAL ORDER, THYMELACE^. 
MONOCHLAMTDE®, 
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DECANDOLLE. 
Artificial divisions 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
DIAXDRIA, 
MONOGTNIA, 
OF LIN’NECS. 
No. 243 
GENUS. PiMELEA. BanksETS oLANDER. Pertanthidm infundibuliforme, 
limbo 4-iido, fauce esquamata. Stamina duo, fauce inserta, laciniis exteri- 
oribus opposita. Stylos lateralis. Stigma capitatum. Nux corticata,raro 
baccata. Frotices. Folia opposita, raro alterna. Flores capitati terminates, 
foliis involucrantibus ssepe dissimilibus, interdum connatis, rarius spicati vel 
axillares, quandoque dioiei. Perianthii tubus in plerisque medio artieulatus, 
artieulo inferiore persistenti. Brown, Prod. 1, 359. 
SPECIES. PiMELEA intermedia (Lindley) foliis utrinqueglabris,lanceo- 
latis acutis, floralibus 2'4-eapitulo multo brevioribus •, calyeibus sericeis, tubo 
cylindraeeo incurvo, ramis glabris; Bindley, Bot. Reg. 1439. 
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, cracked, 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 involucre, 
which scarcely differs from the ordinary leaves of the plant. Perianth 
surrounded at its base with long erect hairs, tomentous on the outside, 
striated, dilated over the germen, and diaphanous between the striae at 
this part; segments of the limb subequal, elliptical, with slightly invo¬ 
lute edges. Stamens at first erect, afterwards reflexed on the limb, 
and shorter than it Anthers oblong, pollen bright orange. Germen 
