Pimelea. | THYMELAEACEAE. 581 
Soutn Istanp: Nelson — Mount Rochfort, W. Townson ! Mount Percival, 
T. F.C.; Vake Tennyson, R, M. Laing. Marlborough—Hell’s Gates, Mason River, 
H. J. Matthews! Kaikoura Mountains, Monro, Buchanan ! Canterbury—Hurunut 
River, W. 7. L. Travers ; Upper Waimakariri, 7. Kirk! Mount Catherine, Cockayne ; 
Ashburton Mountains, Potts/ Rangitata Valley, J. B. Armstrong is Mount Peel, 
H. H. Allan ; Mount Dobson, 7. F. C. ; Upper Tasman Valley, Miss Linton! Otago 
Mount St. Bathan’s, Mount Ida, Petrie / 
In its ordinary state a distinct little species, easily recognized by the very robust 
habit, stout scarred and usually glabrous branches, small broad leaves, and numerous 
rather large flowers. Diffuse or almost prostrate forms, with slightiy pubescent branches, 
show an approach to P. laevigata. 
6. P. buxifolia Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 243.—A small stout 
erect compactly branched shrub 1-5 ft. high; branches stout, densely 
clothed with coarse short greyish hairs; bark brownish-black, muricated. 
Leaves quadrifariously imbricated, shortly petioled, +-{ in. long, oblong- 
ovate or elliptic-oblong, acute or obtuse, coriaceous, glabrous, keeled, much 
wrinkled beneath, lateral veins conspicuous or obsolete, often verdigris- 
green when dry; floral leaves usually larger and _ broader. Flowers 
numerous, densely capitate, white or pink, polygamo-dioecious. Perianth 
silky-villous, +4 in. long; females shorter and broader. © Anthers In the 
male flowers on long filaments, almost reaching the top of the perianth- 
lobes; in the females minute, empty. Ripe fruit not seen.—Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 610; Ill. N.Z. Fl. ii (1914) t. 173. P. stylosa Col. 
in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx (1888) 205. P. subsimilis Col. l.c. xxviii (1896) 
609. P. montana Col. l.c. xxxi (1899) 279. 
Norv Istanp: Mountains between the Kauaeranga River and Tairua, Adams / 
W. Vownson/ Mount Hikurangi, S. Dodgshun, Adams! Petrie! slopes of Tongariro, 
Ngauruhoe, and Ruapehu, abundant, Colenso, G. Mair! H,. Hill! Spencer! T. F. C., 
Cockayne ; Ruahine Mountains, Colenso, Petrie! A. Hamilton! H. Hill! Kaweka 
Mountain, Colenso ; Kaimanawa Mountains, B. C. Aston / 1500-4500 ft. December-— 
March. 
Very close to P. Gnidia, but easily distinguished by the branches being hirsute 
with coarse hairs. Hooker mentions the “‘ evident lateral nerves”? of the leaves as a 
good character, but I find that Se. frequently have the veins very obscure. 
ax FEE to Tee cy one, is 1G: G34 
7. P. virgata Vahl. Enum. 1 (1804) 306.— A slender erect much- 
branched shrub 1-4 ft. high; branches long, slender, virgate, slightly 
ringed with the scars of the fallen leaves, younger ones more or less 
clothed with appressed silky hairs. Leaves spreading, close together or 
remote, not imbricate, almost sessile, $-1 in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute 
va 
or acuminate, not coriaceous, flat, nerveless, usually glabrous above, pilose - 
with appressed silky hairs beneath; floral leaves similar or occasionally 
larger and ovate-lanceolate. Flowers in compact 6-12-flowered heads at 
the tips of the branches, sometimes becoming axillary by the rapid 
growth of leafy shoots springing from beneath the heads.  Perianth 
tin. long, densely silky-villous; tube swollen at the base; lobes ovate, 
obtuse. Fruit usually baccate, white, ovoid-oblong, 4-i1in. long, often 
hairy at the tip.—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 173; A. Cunn. Preeur. 
(1838) n. 345; Raoul Choix (1846) 42; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 220; 
Handb. N.Z. Fi. (1864) 243; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 611. P. pilosa 
Willd. Sp. Plant. 1 (1798) 50. P. dichotoma Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii 
(1890) 485. Passerina pilosa Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 226; Forst. f. Prodr. 
(1786) n. 171. . 
North and Souty Isuanps: From the Three Kings Islands and the North Cape 
to Nelson and Marlborough. Sea-level to 2000 ft. Septem ber-December. 
A common plant in the northern portion of the Dominion, well marked by the 
slender erect habit and rather lax lanceolate spreading leaves. 
