PullerKsa,'] XL. lkguminosju. 119 



shorter.^ Ovaiy villous, slightly contracted at the base, as in most species of 

 the section Euchilus; style subulate. Pod not seen, 



W. Australia. Lrummond, Wi ColL n. 70. From the number quoted this should 

 be Euchilus jiurpureus, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 276, but there may be some mistake 

 ts the character given does not agree with our specimens. 



18. P. diffusa. Hook. / FL Tasm, i. 91. L 14. A \o^Y diifiise or pro- 

 cumbent shrub, with short ascending or erect branches, somewhat angular, 

 irunutely hoary or glabrous. Leaves linear, 2 to 3 lines long, obtuse or 

 shortly mucronate, flat or convex and glabrous above, the margins folded 

 back and adnate to the lower surface leaving exposed only the broad midrib, 

 olten sprinkled with a few short hairs. Stipules minute or none. Flowers 

 small, in the upper axils, resembling those of P. pedunculata, usually 2 op- 

 posite to each other, each in the axil of a small bract at the base of a young 

 axOlaiy shoot, and often 2 such axillary shoots each with 3 flowers are oppo- 

 site to each other. Pedicels slender, about 1 line long. Uracteoles imine- 

 «iately under the calyx and shorter than its tube, ovate-lanceolate, slightly 

 glandular-toothed. Calyx slightly stiigose-pubescent, 1^ lines long or rather 

 ^ore; lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones rounded or truncate, 

 united above the middle into a broad upper lip. Standard about twice as 

 Jong as the calyx; lower petals shorter; the keel much curved. Ovary silky- 

 pubesceiit ; style much dilated at the base. Pod not seen.—P/ij/lloia diffusa, 

 l^.-Muell. Fragm. i. 8. 



Tasmauia. Sandy plains in various localities, /. D. Hooker. The seeds not being as 

 h p"w "' ^^^ ^^""^ ^^ ^^^^ species cannot be determined with certainty. It was removed 

 oy J. Mueller to Fhjllota on account of the want of stipules, but that occurs iu a few other 

 ^ttUoubted Piiltenmas, and the free filaments and other characters arc much more those of 

 i^men^a than of FhyUota, It appears to be uearly allied to P. yedanculata. 



Section II. Acipuyllum.— Leaves alternate, rigid, concave and keeled 

 ^^t the margins flat, transversely reticulate. Flowers terminal, solitary or 2 

 ""^ ^ together. Ovary quite sessile. 



jjjj J^ "Kid coriaceous leaves recall those of Gastrolobium and of the multi-ovulate genera 

 ^^ to it ; but the inllorescence and liowers are quite those of PuUenaa. 



VI r 



retictdata,- BentJt, An erect ri<>:id shru 



inutelv silkv-nnhpfiOf'Tit wlipn vonno". Le 



tely silky-pul)escent wheny 



w almost linear, rigid, tapering into a pungent point i to | in. long, concave 



^Dove, glabrous and strongly reticulate on botli sides, the midrib prominent 



^"(lerneath. Stipules small. Flowers terminal or in the upper axils, solitary 



;"" ^^^% 2 or 3 together, surrounded by 3 or 3 broad almost orbicular bracts 



2^^'h 2 lines long, often very deciduous. Bracteoles immediately under the 



^'.Vx, short and broad. Calyx silky-pnbescent or nearly glabrous, broad, 3 



thp I ^""^' 5 lobes lanceolate, almost pungent, much longer than the tube, 



"e i upper ones shortly united. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; lower 



Lvi fif^.'"'' '^°^i"'' tl'e keel slightly curved, deeply coloured. Ovary vUlous ; 



')'e hhform. Pod villous, about 3 lines long, broadly ovate, obtuse, turgid, 



ne valves h^xL—Datiesia reticulata, Siu. iu Trans. Linn. Soc ix. 256; 



^cksoHia reticulata, DC. Prod. ii. 107 ; PultoMa aciphj/Ua, Beiith. in Hueg. 



ii 9'?!; 25, and in Ann. Wieu. Mus. i. 81 ; Meissn. in PI. Preiss. 1. 74, and 



^- 219. 



