12*1 XL. LEGTJMiNos.ir. [Fulknea, 



. SI. P, incurvata, J. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 346. A low slirub 



with elongated slender branches, terete and softly pubescent or villous when 

 young. Leaves lanceolate, obtuse or acute, incurved, otherwise flat or con- 

 cave, mostly 3 to 4 lines long, rather thick, darker coloured on the under side, 

 witliout any midrib. Stipules minute or none. Flowers in terminal Leads, 

 sessile within the last leaves. Bracts few, rather narrow^, 3-fid. Bracteote 

 inserted under the calyx, linear, villous with long hairs. Calyx silky-villous, 

 about 3 lines long; lobes lanceolate, longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones 

 united to the middle. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx; ked 

 sc uTcly exceeding the calyx-lobes. Ovary villous ; style erect, hooked at the 

 end. Pod obtuse, not 2 lines long, the valves very convex. 



Marshes near Sydney, R, Brown; margins of peaty bogs. King's Tabic- 



^Vale 



land, Blue Mountains, A. Canmngham, The species is verv nearly alUed to P. &uUn' 

 beilata, and perhaps a variety, but the stipules are more eo?ispicuous, the flowers smaller, 

 and the bracts and bracteoles different, at least in R, Brown's spechiiens. 



32. P. subumbellata. Hook. Bot. May, L 3254. A shrub either low 



and erect or taller and stniggling, the branches virgate, rather slender, terete, 

 pubescent when young. Leaves narrow-oblong or almost linear, obtuse, 

 under \ in. and usually 3 to 4 lines long, rather incurved than recurved at 

 the end, otherwise flat or concave, darker-coloured underneath, without any 

 midrib, usually glabrous. Stipules uone. Flowers all yellow, in dense ter- 

 minal heads, sessile within the last leaves. Bracts few, short, broad, ciliate. 

 Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, linear or oblong. Calyx softly viUous, 

 about 2 lines long ; lobes lanceolate, scarcely so long as the tube, the 2 up- 

 per ones united to the middle. Standard more than twice as long as the 

 calyx ; lower petals shorter. Ovary villous, tapering into an erect, rather 

 thick style, hooked at the top. Pod about 2 lines long, obliquely and 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, turgid.— Bot. Eeg. t, 1632; Hook, f. FL Tasrn. 



1. 87. « o ? 



Victoria- 



Wales. Near ilouiit Imlay, F. Mueller. 



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_ Australian Alps, at au elevation of 5000 ft., F. Mueller. 

 X asmania. I ort Dulrymple, E. Brown ; abundant in moist situations, ascending to 



Hooker. 



4000 ft., J. D. Hooker. 



The alpine specimens are smaU and slender, with small leaves and flowers j but the.vpjs* 

 graduallj^ into the larger forms. lu the absence of stinules, as well as in general habit, th» 

 spaces connects PuliencBa with Lairobeadiosmlfolia. The name snhumbellata was unfor- 

 tunately chosen, for the flower-heads are as compact as iu most capitate species. 



^ 33. P. urodon, Benth. A low shrub, with erect or ascending stems, 

 in our specimens simple or not much branched, 1 to U ft. high, glabrous 

 and glaucous or more or less villous with Ion- loose hairs. Leaves nume- 

 rous, narrow-oblong, obtuse or scarcely acute, 2 to 4 lines or rarely nearly 



nn?* \t "^ ""Tf^^-: '^^^''^ glaucous on both sides or darker-coloiirej 

 underneath the niidnb slender or inconspicuous, glabrous or villous witl 

 long spreading hairs. Stipules none. Flowers in rather large dense ve"? 

 villous heads, sessile within the last leaves, which are larger, broader, thinner, 

 and more acute than the others. Bracteoles inserted a little below the cnh% 

 liuear-subulate, plumose-hairy. Calyx membranous, about \ in. long, densely 

 dothe<l with y,xj long soft hairs ; lobes all much longer than the tube, the 

 3 upper ones broadly oblong with short hue points, the lower ones rather 



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