246 Dr. Smith's Specific Characters of 



son, New South Wales. It is conspicuous for its large heads of 

 handsome yellow flowers, its long, narrow, straight, ciliated, and 

 densely imbricated, leaves, and its very long, tawny, laciniated 

 stipulas, which spread a little from the branches, or, if some- 

 times pressed to them, are too narrow to embrace or sheathe them 

 like those of the next species. 



2. P. paleacea, foliis linearibus mucronulatis revolutis apice re- 

 curvis, stipulis solitariis bincrvibus vaginantibus mcmbrana- 

 ccis laceris. 



Much smaller and more branched than the preceding, with 

 small, but very numerous, heads of flowers. The leaves are re- 

 volute, silky beneath with close-pressed hairs, but not ciliated,. 

 andiheir points are recurved. The stipulas are dilated, thin, 

 membranous and white, with two brown ribs. They embrace 

 the stem and are very conspicuous, though liable to be injured, 

 and partly obliterated, by time and weather. The Ions and 

 pointed bracteas reach much higher than the tops of the flowers,, 

 which is not so evident in the fore^oins 1 . 



*3. P. elliptica, foliis ellipticis concavis pilosiusculis, stipulis 

 solitariis binervibus villosis imbricatis. 



The leaves of this species differ from all other known Pultenaa. 

 with simple stipulas, in their elliptical form, which nearly ap- 

 proaches that of P. villosa hereafter described, and they are also, 

 as in that species, concave above, convex and rough with pro- 

 minent points beneath. A few long loose white hairs are obser- 

 vable on some of them, chiefly at the margin. The stipulas are, 

 as in the c 2 first species, intrafoliaceous, simple, closely pressed 

 to the branches, and so long as to lap over each other ; they are 

 elliptical, shaggy with white hairs, furnished with 2 ribs and an 



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