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DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF 

 PULTENjEA. 



By R. T. Baker, F.L.S., Assistant Curator Technological 



Museum, Sydney. 



(Plate XVI.) 



Pulten;ea Deanei, sp. nov. 



An erect, divaricate villous shrub, with terete branches almost 

 hidden by the numerous leaves. Leaves on short petioles of 

 about 1 line long, obovate, cuneate, obtuse, 4 to 6 lines long, 

 margins slightly incurved, trinerved and reticulate on the under- 

 side, midrib not very distinct on the upper surface, hairy on both 

 sides. Stipules prominent, nearly 3 lines long, subulate. Flowers 

 terminal, with small floral leaves on the calyx. Bracteoles inserted 

 on the calyx, acuminate. Calyx villous, 4 lines long or more, lobes 

 rather longer than the tube, the upper ones broad, acute, united to 

 the middle. Standard 6 lines long, the lower petals shorter, keel 

 almost truncate; all the petals light yellow. Ovary glabrous, 

 with a tuft of white, rigid hairs at the summit. Pod unknown. 



Hab. — Peat's Ferry, Hawkesbury River (H. Deane) : Thorn- 

 leigh Cowan Creek (R. T. Baker). 



This plant has long been known to Mr. H. Deane, M.A., F.L S., 

 who has always insisted upon its specific rank in opposition to 

 other botanists who have placed it with P. e/liptica in their 

 herbaria, although its aflinities with that species are not at all well 

 marked. 



Its general aspect is perhaps somewhat similar to P. eUiptica, 

 but a detailed examination of its parts reveals many affinities 

 with P. largiflorens, so that in botanical sequence I think it 

 should come between that species and P. villosa. 



It resembles P. largiflorens, F.v.M., in the shape both of its 

 leaves and calyx, but differs from it in indumentum, length of 



