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PIMELEA drupacea. 
Drupe bearing Pimelea. 
Linnean Class and Order, DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Natural Order, THYMELZEEE. Brown prodr. 358. Supra fol. 7. 
PIMELEA. Supra fol. 8. - 
Sect. II. Folia opposita, Capitulum terminale. Folia floralia rameis subsimilia, 

P. drupacea, foliis ovali-oblongis planis subtis pubescentulis: floralibus capitulo lon- 
gioribus, perianthii tubo cylindraceo deciduo, drup& baccaté. Brown prodr. p. 61. 
Pimelea drupacea, Labill, nov. holl.1. p.10. t.7. Lodd. bot. cab. 540. Ram. et Schult. 
syst. 1. p.275. Spreng. syst. 1. p.92. Swt. hort. brit. p, 352. 

An upright evergreen Shrub, with few branches: branches a 
little flattened, particularly near the leaves, clothed with short 
hairs, most of which are pressed upwards toward the stem. 
Leaves opposite, crossing each other, upper ones longest, ovally 
oblong, bluntish, smooth and bright green on the upper side 
and slightly pubescent underneath, the margins entire, but slightly 
fringed, underneath pinnately veined. Petioles short, hairy. 
Flowers in a terminal head, from 4 to 10, white, but dying off red- 
dish or blush. Perianthium tubular, 4-cleft, hairy : tube short, 
narrowest at the base; laciniz of the limb spreading, ovate, ob- 
tuse. Stamens 2, inserted in the mouth of the tube: filaments 
short, smooth: pollen yellow. Ovarium oval, slightly pubes- 
cent, bearded at the point. Style smooth, about the length 
of the tube. Stigma capitate. 
This pretty plant is a native of Van Diemen’s Land ; it is not 
so handsome as P. decussata or P. rosea, but is, nevertheless, 
well worth a place in the Greenhouse, as it is a free grower, and 
when covered with flowers makes a neat appearance, thriving 
well in a pot of sandy peat soil with a little loam mixed with it, 
