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it from p. mollis. Bentham describes the flowers as " in dense 

 terminal heads." This is a rather misleading statement; in our 

 Victorian specimens the flowers are not always strictly capitate, 

 and in the Gilgandra specimens they may be described as 

 "crowded in the axils of the upper leaves or forming few-flowered 

 terminal heads." 



PULTENiEA CINERASCENS, sp.nOV. 



Warialda (J. L. Boorman; July, '05). 



An erect dense-growing shrub, 1 to 2 feet* high, with white- 

 tomentose young branches becoming glabrous with age. Leaves 

 alternate, crowded and clustered from the shortness of the lateral 

 branchlets, shortly petiolate, linear with revolute margins, leaving 

 only the midrib visible underneath, generally 4 lines long, rather 

 acute, with a short often recurved point, but not pungent; stipules 

 lanceolate, acuminate, brown and conspicuous on the white young 

 shoots but deciduous and soon disappearing. Flowers solitary, 

 nearly sessile in the axils of the upper leaves or apparently 

 terminal and a few together on the short lateral branchlets, but 

 without persistent bracts, and never forming heads. Calyx 

 sparingly hairy, with acuminate lobes rather shorter than the 

 tube, the upper ones united higher up; bracteoles small, linear- 

 subulate, hairy like the calyx, attached high up on the calyx- 

 tube. Ovarium sessile, densely pubescent with appressed hairs; 

 style slender, hairy in the lower part. Standard broader than 

 long, orange-coloured, marked with reddish-brown; keel dark 

 brown, rather shorter than the standard, the wings orange, about 

 as long as the keel. Fruits and seeds not seen. 



In systematic position it should be placed near P. Hartmanni 

 F.V.M., a species with which it has most essential characters in 

 common, and from which it is yet widely different in appearance. 

 The mode of growth is the same in both plants, but P. Hartmanni 



* Since the above was written we have received it from the Rev, H. M. R. 

 Rupp, who collected it at Coolatai, 25 miles north of Warialda, where it 

 attains a height of 5 feet, and with leaves rather longer than the type, 



