Species novae tres generis Pultenaeae in Victoria Australiensi indigenae. 211 
Calyx glabrous and very thin, the tube viscid on the outside, 
seemingly from contact with the bracteoles, the lobes:almost as long as 
the tube, the upper lobes scarcely as long as the others, all acute. 
Standard nearly orbicular, with the very narrow claw twice as long 
as the calyx, the lamina about 4 lines in diameter, the veins purple in 
their lower parts. , 
Wings about as long as the standard, scarcely 1 line broad. 
Keel slightly broader than the wings, but scarcely as long, obtuse, 
with purple markings. 
Ovarium sessile, villous, oval. 
Style leaving the ovarium rather abruptly, subulate, sparingly pubes- 
cent to half-way up. 
Stigma very small. 
Pod almost oblong, hairy, half as long again as the calyx, the pedi- 
cels lengthening to about 3 lines. 
On summit of a granite hill about 12 miles from Euroa and 2 from 
Mt. Wombat, in the Strathbogie Ranges, Victoria. Collected by Mr. 
Anton W. Vroland (no. 974 of herbarium of Mr. H. B. Williamson). 
In the ordinary sense of the term, the species does not possess 
bracts; what pass for such are the stipules situated at the bases of the 
pedicels and in the axils of the leaves.. The cup-shaped involucre-like 
bracteoles are very distinctive, and are similar to those of P. involucrata, 
which character, together with its slender pedicels and the viscidity of 
the calyx, bracteoles, stipular bracts, and to some extent the young 
stipules, make it a very distinct species. Its aspect is similar to that of 
the:short-leaved typical form of P. villosa Sm. 
2. Pultenaea Williamsoni Maiden, 1. e, p. 99. 
A weak-stemmed shrub „trailing amongst shrubs“. 
Leaves not numerous, up to 1 inch long, oval to elliptical or oblong- 
lanceolate or even slightly oblanceolate, shortly petiolate, with slightly 
recurved margins or almost flat, with a small recurved point, frequently 
worn off in the old leaves; silky pubescent underneath, sparingly so in 
the older leaves. 
Stipules broadish, appressed, up to 3 lines long; much broader than 
those of P. palacea usually are; with scarious margins. 
Flowers in dense terminal heads, say half an inch in diameter. 
Rhachis of the flower-head much elongated. 
Bracts imbricate, glabrous or ciliate, scarious, pointed, keeled in 
the upper part and often three-pointed by splitting along both sides of 
the keel. 
Bracteoles inserted at the very base of the calyx. but free from the 
tube, broad and keeled, complelely enveloping the calyx, in shape and 
texture like the bracts, obtuse but mucronate, and also: often splitting 
along both sides of the keel, thus appearing three-cleft, 
Standard about twice as long as the calyx, say 3 lines in diameter, 
the base with spreading purple markings. S 
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