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Pimelea.]

9. P. Urvilleana, ''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel.'' 175.—A small widely-spreading rather laxly branched procumbent shrub; branches 4–18 in. long, scarred, the younger ones white with copious short appressed silky hairs. Leaves close-set, usually quadrifariously imbricating, spreading or deflexed, ⅙–¼ in. long, linear-oblong to oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, thick and coriaceous, concave, nerveless, usually glabrous on both surfaces; floral leaves usually larger and broader. Flowers in 4–8-flowered heads at the tips of the branches, small, white. Perianth ⅙–⅕ in. long, villous with long white hairs; lobes equalling the tube, broadly oblong, obtuse. Fruit baccate, white.—''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 348; Raoul, Choix, 42; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 221; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 244. P. prostrata var. Urvilleana, ''Meisn. in D.C. Prodr.'' xiv. 517. Gymnococca microcarpa, ''Fisch. and Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop.'' x. (1845) 47.

10. P. Suteri, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvi. (1894) 259.—A small much-branched shrub 4–12 in. high; branches spreading or suberect, often tortuous; the younger ones sparingly pilose with rather long straight silky hairs; bark dark red-brown or black. Leaves crowded, shortly petiolate or nearly sessile, erecto-patent, about ⅓ in. long, narrow linear-lanceolate, subacute, coriaceous, concave above, both surfaces glabrous or rarely with a few lax hairs, margins and apices ciliated with long straight hairs. Flowers in 4–8-flowered heads at the tips of the branches, white, polygamodioecious. Perianth ¼–⅓ in. long, villous with white hairs. Fruit baccate, red, ovoid, acute, hairy at the tip.