42 AUSTUALTAN PLANTS. 



curved, spreading, linear, sharp-pointed, scabrous, with refract margin, 

 the floral ones crowded, and below the middle villose ; flowers concealed 

 between the leaves, either axillary, solitary, or collected in terminal few- 

 flowered heads; bracteoles ovate, keeled, shorter than the tube of the 

 silkv calyx; standard surpassing considerably the length of the keel, 

 but little that of the wings ; style below the middle appressed-hairy, 

 unbearded on the apex; pod somewhat hairy, ovate, slightly com- 

 pressed; seeds destitute of a strophiole. 



Hab. In arid plains, at the foot of Mount Abrupt, in Kangaroo 

 Island, and Encounter Bay. 



59, Eutaxia sparsifolia, F. Muell. ; branchlets spreading, silky, as 

 well as the calyces ; leaves dispersed, short-stalked, semiterete, trigonous, 

 channelled, glabrous, acutish, slightly recurved, spreading, at length 

 deflexed ; flowers a few together on the top of the branchlets, stalked, 

 wdthout bracteoles ; upper lip of the calyx rounded, a little emarginate, 

 teeth of the lower lip deltoid acuminate ; pods turgid. 



Hab. In the desert scrub towards the mouth of the Murray Tlivcr. 

 Eound also at Tumbay Bay by C. Wilhelmi. 



60. Pultena^a Benthami, F. Muell. ; robust, erect; twigs angular, 

 somewhat silky ; stipules lanceolate-subulate, concrete at the base ; 

 leaves nearly flat, coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong, awnless or ending 

 in a sharp point, either smooth and even on both sides, or below silky ; 

 petiole very short ; heads terminal, few-flowered, surrounded at the 

 base by imbricate brown, ovate, or roundish ciliolate bracteas ; brac- 

 teoles navicular-lanceolate, w^ith exception of the margin, smooth, brown, 

 scarious, affixed to the tube of the whitish-silky calyx ; upper lip of 

 the calyx short-bilobcd, considerably shorter than the lanceolate subu- 

 late lacinise of the lower lip ; germen, together with the basis of the 

 style, silky. 



Hab. On springs and rivulets in the Grampians, and amongst rocks 

 on the top of Mount Abrupt. — This elegant species, which stands nearest 

 to P. mi/rioideSj A. Cunn., has been named in honour of Mr. George 

 Bentham, the eminent monographer of this Order of plants. 



61. VnliQusda fuscata^ P. Muell. ; branchlets hardly spreading 



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leaves stalked, trigonous, linear, channelled by the inflexed margin, 

 acute, mucronulate, the uppermost below the middle long cihated, the 

 rest smooth ; stipules large, concrete, imbricate, setaceous, acuminate, 

 fringed; heads few-flowered; teeth of the calyx and bracteoles seta- 

 ceous, acuminate, downy ; ovary sessile, silky. 



