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Hab. Between the Coorong and Murray River, on scrubby localities. 



Next to P. arhtata. 



62. Pultensea canaliculata^ T. Muell. ; branchlets hardly spreading, 

 velvety; leaves oblong-linear, blunt, very short -stalked, channelled, 

 gradually tapering into the base, somewhat silky; stipules lanceolate 

 or linear-subulate, downy; heads few-flowered; calyces downy, pale, 

 membranous, little longer than the downy, linear, setaceous brac- 

 teoles ; teeth of the upper lip broader, all setaceous-acuminate ; ovary 

 sessile, velvety ; pod beaked ; seeds somewhat shining. 



Hab, Encounter Bay. 

 Near to P. mollk^ LindL 



63. Pultenaea densifolia, P. Muell.; branchlets divaricate; leaves 

 small, crowded, coriaceous, broadly -obovate or somewhat cuneate, 

 stalked, glabrous, mucronulate, rarely blunt, recurved, shining above, 

 veined beneath, margins flat, sometimes with a few hairs ; stipules im- 

 bricate, nearly lanceolate, membranous, pale brown, fringed ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, or in terminal heads ; calyces membranous, little 

 longer than the fringed, lanceolate, mucronulate bracteoles, with the 

 exception of the margin, smooth, their teeth nearly equal, setaceous- 

 acuminate; pods oblique-ovate, turgid, slightly silky, sessile. 



Hab. In the lower Murray Desert, and near Port Lincoln, according 

 to C. Wilhelmi. 



It stands in relation to P. parviflora, 



64* Bossisea egena, F. Muell. {Daviesia egena, F. Muell. in Trans, of 

 Phil. Soc, of Victoria) ; tall, much-branched, leafless ; branches terete, 

 erect, furrowed, unarmed; racemes very long, terminal ; pedicels soli- 

 tary or twin, shorter than the calyx, furnished at the top with two 

 bracteoles, which are rounded, persistent, ciliolate, connate at the base, 

 and larger than the lower ones ; calyx indistinctly angulate, with acute 

 teeth, the lower ones the longest; keel perfectly blunt, hardly longer 

 than the wings; stamens monadelphous; ovary nearly sessile; style 

 smooth ; pods oblique, oblong-ovate, slightly convex, with a very short 

 beak ; seeds equally brown, with a papillous, irregular-lobed strophiole. 



Hab. In the ban-en bushy plains along Spencer's Gulf, Lake Tor- 



rens, the Flinders Kanges, and Murray Eiver. 



65. BossiEea£?Mc^d)c;«^a,*F. Muell.; erect, unarmed ; branches and 



twigs in two rows, terete, grey-velutinous, densely foliate ; leaves small, 



* This is Bossicea foHosa of Allan Cunningham, collected by himself near Bathurst. 

 Ed. 



