Pileanthus
(from pilos, a cap, and anthos, a flower; in allusion to the flower being inclosed in a one-leaved involucre). ORD. Myrtaceae. A genus comprising two or three species of greenhouse, evergreen, Heath-like shrubs, glabrous except the flowers, and limited to West Australia. Flowers in the upper axils, forming leafy corymbs; calyx tube turbinate or campanulate; lobes ten, spreading, petal-like, entire; petals five, exceeding the calyx, spreading, shortly ciliated; bracteoles scarious, inclosing the bud. Leaves mostly opposite, linear-terete or triquetrous. The under-mentioned species requires culture similar to Calythrix (which see).
P. limacis (Limax-like). fl. white, on pedicels shorter than, or slightly exceeding, the leaves; calyx tube silky-pubescent. April. l. linear-clavate, semiterete, very obtuse, nearly 1/4in. long, smooth or glandular-tuberculate and slightly ciliated. h. 2ft. to 3ft. 1824.