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thickened or sliglitly recurved margins, with mid-rib scarcely 

 prominent below, tine pointed. The calyx has equal lol^es, and 

 the bracteoles are free from the calyx. It belongs to section Empul- 

 tenaea, near P. Drummondii. 

 Narrogin Exp. Farm. Steward. 



I'lilteiiafa scabra, K.Br. 



Three very divergent forms have been united by Bentham in 

 this sptvies : — 



(a) 11. Brown's P. scabra. from the Blue Mountains (Sieb, n- 



28G). with narrow-cuneate, truncate leaves, Avith a fine 

 seta terminating the mid-rib, and with setaceous, 

 spreading stipules, sometimes 'i lines long. 



(b) Lindley's P. montana — P. scabra var. montana Bth. — the 



common Victorian form, with minute stipules, and 

 leaves obcordate or obvate, with no point, often with 

 much recurved margins. 



(c) R. Brown's P. biloba — P. scabra var. biloba, Bth. — with 



leaves dilated and two lobed. with a short recurved 



point. 

 Brown's scabra and Lindley's plant are very distinct, but as- 

 there is no marked difference in the flowers they may be kept under 

 P. scabra, especially as the varying forms of the var. biloba present 

 graduated intermediates. 



Section ACTPHYLLUM. 



This section — 3 species — is confined to Western Australia, and is- 

 distinguished by peculiar transversely reticulate leaves. 



['ulfcnaen aciphylJa, Benth — (P. recticulata Bth.) — with leaves 

 ovate to linear-lanceolate, pungent. Pultenaea aspalafhnides, Meiss, 

 witli leaves narrower than those of P. aciphylla, with a smaller 

 calyx, larger bracteoles, and flowers crowded round with leaves. 



Pultenaea ochreata. Meiss, distinguished from the two former 

 by having shorter and broader leaves, with no point, and nearly 

 orl)iculnr bracteoles. 



Section EUCHILUS. 



This section contains those species which have ternate or opposite 

 leaves. 



Pultenaea ohcordata, Benth. 



A West Australian species, with obcordate, ternate, or opposite 

 leaves, and a remarkable calyx, with its upper lobes almost orbicu- 

 lar, and its lower lobes linear and much shorter. 



