oblong, pale green, glabrous. Style filiform, glabrous, longer than 
the perianth ; stigma minute, capitate, bearded. 
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 very 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. 
Introduction ; Where grown; Culture. I believe this plant 
was first raised at Mr. Low’s nursery, Clapton, from seed gathered 
by Mr. Baxter, its discoverer. The specimen now figured was received 
at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Mr. Mackoy, at Liege, 
in the spring of 1837; flowered freely in March, 1838, and has continued 
to do so for several months every year since. 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 tw'o feet high, has not 
perfected seeds, but is easily propagated by cuttings, and grows readily 
in peat soil, mixed with sand, under the protection of the greenhouse. 
Derivation of the Name. 
Pimelea, said to be from TrijxeXr) fat, but why so called it is bard to conjecture. 
Synonyme. 
Pimelea intermedia. Bindley,!, c. 
Grah. 
