136 Alfred J. Ewart: 



The following description tallies in all esf-entials with the 

 original one, but includes the other species mentioned. P. 

 stricta, Sims. An erect spi'eading or somewhat decumbent shrub 

 of 1 to 3 feet ; the slender young branches minutely hoary or 

 more or lei~s silky-pubescent, sometimes somewhat angular and 

 becoming glabrous when old. Leave* varying greatly in shape 

 and size, sometimes on the same plant, from about 3 to 12 mm 

 long, ovate, oblong, cuneate or linear, obtuse or with a small 

 straight or recurved point, nearly flat, but with the margin 

 usually slightly recurved, shining and glabrous above, paler and 

 hairy or silky pubescent beneath, especially when young. Mid- 

 rib prominent, stipules small, narrow or lanceolate, and ap- 

 pressed, the nari'ower stipules often spreading. Flowers very 

 Schortly stalked, usually in small terminal heads of 2 to 8, but 

 sometimes laterally aji'ranged, and then usually axillary. Bracts 

 imbricate, the outer ones small, the inner ones, when present, 

 larger, 3 or 4 mm. long and either entire, bilobed, or with a 

 hairy point between the two apical lobes, varying in these re- 

 spects in the same head. Bracteolea lanceolate or nearly linear, 

 usually about 3 mm. long, and more or less hairy on the back, 

 inserted on the calyx tube, usually near its base. Calyx about 

 4: mm., pubescent or silky villous the three lower lobes pointed 

 — ^lanceolate, about as long as the tube, the two upper lobes 

 broader, usually more or less falcate and united to about the 

 middle. Standard twice as long as the calyx, the wings and keel 

 a little shorter than the ^standard, the keel deeply coloured, the 

 ovary villous, the style filiform, but ^^lightly thickened towards 

 the base, where a few scattered hairs may be seen. Pod obliquely 

 or almost triangular, ovate, more or less flattened and hairj% or 

 silky, pubescent, usually 4 to 5 mm., long and projetting beyond 

 the calyx. 



Variety Maideni (Pultenaea maideni, Reader). 



The stipules more lanceolate, the inner bracts usually hairy 

 on the back, as well as the edges and tip, and slightly shorter. 

 The " trifid " or bilobed apex of some of the inner bracts is evi- 

 dence of their stipular character, and is not peculiar to this 

 variet)"", which is very close to the type form. 



