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2. Pimelasa linifolia, or flax-leaved pimelasa; (Sm. Bor. 
of New Holl. 31. t. n.) Braftes ovate, broad, fmootli on 
both fides, half the length of the head 5 tube of the 
calyx filky; leaves linear-lanceolate, or partly fpatulate, 
italked, lingle-ribbed. Native of New South Wales and 
the ifland of Van Diemen. In England it is a green- 
houfe flirub, bearing, from February to Auguft, a profu- 
(ion of elegant, white, but inodorous, flowers. The co¬ 
pious flraight branches are clothed with numerous 
fmooth leaves, about an inch long, variable in breadth. 
The globular briflly common receptacle remains long 
after the flowers and feeds are fallen, furmounted by 
numerous young flowering branches. This fpecies is 
reprefented on the annexed Plate at fig. 1. 
3. Pimelaea rofea, or rofe-coloured pimelaea; (Curtis, 
N° 1458.) Involucrum four-leaved, that and the other 
leaves fmooth on both fides ; tube of the corolla not 
Jointed; leaves linear-lanceolate. In feme fpecies, the 
leaflets of the involucrum are but little different from 
the other leaves; and in many the tube of the corolla 
is jointed, in which cafe the lowermoft portion is per- 
fiftent. In the prefent fubjeft, the tube has no joint, 
but the lower half of it is covered with long hairs, while 
the upper half and the limb are naked, or only clothed 
with a (hort down. In P. linifolia, the limb of the corolla 
only is hairy. Native of the fouthern parts of New Hol¬ 
land, and has been cultivated, forfome years pall, in the 
royal garden at Kew, though not inferted in the new 
edition of the Hortus Kewenfis. It is a very defirable 
greenhoufe plant; flowering great part of the year, and 
propagated by cuttings. Received from Meflrs, Malcolm 
and Sweet’s nurfery, Kennington, in May 1811. It is 
reprefented at fig. 2. 
4. Pimelaea drupacsea: leaves oval-oblong, flat, flightly 
downy beneath ; floral ones longer than the head 5 tube 
of the calyx cylindrical, deciduous ; fruit pulpy. From 
Van Diemen’s Land. Above fix feet high. Young 
branches hairy. Leaves about an inch and a half long ; 
the floral ones two or four, fometimes larger, fometimes 
fmaller, than the refl. Befides the ufual terminal head of 
flowers, there.are feveral fmall, oppofite, axillary, ones, 
with two diminutive floral leaves to each. Stamens half 
the length of the limb. Berry black, pulpy. 
5. Pimelaea longifolia : leaves lanceolate, acute, fmooth 
on both fides; floral ones twice as long as the many- 
flowered head; calyx externally filky. Gathered by fir 
-J. Banks at New Zealand, in J769. This feems to be a 
tali and handfome flirub, fmooth in every part except the 
flowers, which are white, externally filky, with elliptical 
obtufe fegments. Leaves willow-like, three inches long, 
half an inch wide, on fhort broad footftalks; the floral 
ones four, half the fize of the reft, but full twice the 
length of the flowers. 
6 . Pimelaea laevigata: leaves ovate, obtufe, concave, 
fmooth on both lides; floral ones the length of the head ; 
calyx and young branches filky. From the fame country. 
Stem apparently procumbent. Young branches nume¬ 
rous, clothed with fine, denfe, rather prominent, white, 
filky hairs. Leaves fcarcely above a quarter of an inch 
long, perfectly fmooth and naked ; the floral ones exaflly 
like the reft. Flowers many in each head, the length of 
the leaves, externally finely filky ; their fegments broad 
and rounded. 
7. Pimelaea villofa: leaves imbricated, ovate, acute, 
concave; fmooth above; very hairy beneath ; floral ones 
the length of the head ; calyx and young branches hairy. 
From the fame country. This agrees with the laft in fize, 
but feems more ere£t, and differs in the long fhaggy, 
though fhining,pubefcence of the flowers, young branches, 
and backs of the leaves. 
8. Pimelasa (picata : leaves oval, fmooth, as well as the 
calyx: (pikes naked ; flowers polygamous. Found near 
Port Jackfon, New' South Wales. This is a delicate 
fmooth upright fpecies, whofe leaves have the afpebl of 
fome Hypericum or Euphorbia. The flowers are of a 
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yellowifh-green, tipped with purple ; and are remarkable 
for forming a Ample corymboie fmooth fpike at the 
fummit of each branch. The fegments of the calyx are 
broad and obtufe ; tube very (lender, quite fmooth. 
9: Pimelaea argentea: leaves lanceolate, filvery on both 
fides; flowers from two to four together, axillary. 
Gathered by Mr. Brown on the fouth coaft of New 
Holland. 
II. Leaves alternate. 
10. Pimelaea curviflora : leaves elliptic-oblong ; fmooth 
above ; fomewhat filky beneath, like the branches, with 
depreffed hairs; heads lateral, of few flowers; calyx filky; 
tube curved; limb unequal. Native of Port Jackfon. 
This is an humble fhrubby fpecies, with thyme-like fcat- 
tered leaves. The dried flowers are of a dull greenilh- 
brown ; their tube externally very filky ; fegments of 
the limb acute, one of them rather longer than the 
reft. 
11. Pimelaea gracilis: leaves oblong-linear, taper at 
the bafe; rather hairy beneath; fome of them oppofite 
on the branches; heads lateral and terminal, of few 
flowers; calyx filky; tube nearly flraight; limb equal. 
Gathered by Mr. Brown in the fouth part of New Hol¬ 
land. 
12. Pimelaea latifolia: leaves oblong; acute and hairy 
at the bafe; rather filky beneath ; heads many-flowered, 
fpiked ; either terminal and feflile ; or (talked and oppo¬ 
fite to the leaves; calyx villous. Found by Mr. Brovyn 
in the tropical region of New Holland. 
Two other fpecies, one apparently new, are deferibed 
by Mr. Rudge, in the Linn. Tranf. vol. x. p. 285. t. 13. 
PIME'LIA, J'. in entomology, a genus of the coleop- 
tera order of infedls, Generic charatters—Antenna: fili¬ 
form, feelers four; thorax plano-convex, margined; head 
exferted ; (hells ftiffifli, wings ufually none. This genus, 
which greatly refembles the Tenebrio, and feems to have 
been formed out of it, confifts of 117 fpecies, divided into 
fedtions, according as their antennas are moniliform, or 
entirely filiform ; and thefe are fubdivided according to 
the ftiape and ftrufture of the feelers. 
I. Antennas moniliform at the tip. Feelers filiform. 
1. Pimelia ftriata: black, glabrous; (hells with four 
fanguineous ftriae. Native of India. The body is gib¬ 
bous ; antennas brown at the tip ; (hells united, the four 
ftreaks meeting at the tip. 
2. Pimelia unicolor : glabrous, black ; the (hells 
marked with three raifed obfolete lines. This is called 
Tenebrio gibbus by Pallas. It is found at the Cape of 
Good Hope, and is reprefented on the Plate at fig. 3. 
3. Pimelia flavicollis: glabrous, black; head white, 
villous behind. Inhabits the Cape. 
4. Pimelia gibba : black; thorax globular; (hells with 
an abbreviated lateral line. Native of India. 
5. Pimelia globofa: thorax globular and very fmooth; 
(hells fpinous behind. This is a native of the Cape, 
where it is leen during the hotted part of the fummer 
about walls and pathways,and is diftinguiflted by the re- 
markably-globular appearance of the body. It is totally 
black, the under parts having fometimes a flight viola¬ 
ceous caft; and the joints of the feet, which are remark¬ 
ably broad, are of a dull brown. The whole infefl is of 
a very fmooth, but not polilhed, furface, and ufually 
meafures about three quarters of an inch in length ; in 
this, however, it varies conliderably, fome fpecimens, 
probably the males, being conliderably fmaller; the an¬ 
tennas in this infeft are beautifully moniliform, all the 
joints being globular. The (hells are fmooth at the bafe, 
w ith numerous (harp (pines, very minute, at the tip. See 
fi g‘ 4 - . 
6. Pimelia lasvigata : oblong, black ; thorax globular ; 
(hells very fmooth, immaculate. Inhabits Hungary. 
7. Pimelia glabrata: ovate, black; thorax globular; 
fnells very fmooth, immaculate. Found in divers parts 
of Germany. 
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