Genus Pultenaea. 213 



Pipe Head Watei-Avoiks, Hamilton, Vic, Collec-ted by the writer, 

 11/1904. 



Pultenaea capitdlata, Sieb. 



A species bearing a remarkable general resemblance to* P. pycno- 

 .cepliala, F.v.M., and variously placed Avith that species, or with 

 P. stricta, in which latter Beutham wrongly, included it. 



Its minute stipules and high-adnate bracteoles place it right 

 away from Mueller's specieti, although there is a specimen labelled 

 by him " P. pyciiocephala F.v.M." From P. stricta it can be 

 separated by its floAver heads, solid and almost globular, and very 

 persistent bracts, broadly; ovate, densely covered with silky hairs, 

 •except at the margin, bifid, with a narrow median point. Calyx 

 lobes and bracteoles are setaceous. Leaves cuneate, slightly 

 pointed. The specimen, "Port Jackson, Sieb, n. 313," Fl. Aust., 

 p. 113. is this species, and not the plant figured by Sims, Bot. 

 Mag. Sieber's name should be retained for it. 



Braidwood District, Twofold Bay, N.S.W., and East Gippsland, 

 Tic. 



Pultenaea pycuocephala, F. v. M. 



A remarkable species, with broadly-ovate coriaceous leaves, silky 

 below, and with fiowei'S in dense globular heads, covered with 

 imbricate, silky villous, persistent bracts. The bracteoles are long, 

 Tery silky, villous, and are fixed quite under the calyx. 



Bluff Mount, Poverty Point, Tenterfield, N.S.W. 



Pultenaea refusa. Smith. 



A species with calyx and bracteoles like those of P. stricta, but 

 with shorter bracts, jnore falcate upper calyx lobes, and leaves 

 linear to cuneate, sometimes emarginate. 



Var. linophylla, Bentli. with longer leaves and longer calyx. Port 

 Jackson 4 



Var. longifolia, F.v.M., with leaves up to 1^ inches. 



Specimens from E. Gippsland, with cuneate leaves, almost bi- 

 lobed, 2 or 3 lines long, seam to Ix; included under the description 

 in Bentham. 



Specijmens from Hazelbrook. N.S.W. , Hamilton, and from Two- 

 fold Bay, show leaves cuneate-oblong to obovate. 



Queensland, XeAv South Wales and Eastern Victoria. 



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