Genus Pidtei\aea. ' 219 



Kangaroo I., Andrews. A specimen was sent to the Herbarium 

 in I880 by Miss Brookes, Mt. Kiigged to Victoria Springs, but 

 was set aside bv Mueller for determination later. 



Section COELOPH.YIXUM. 



This section includes those species with alternate leaves, flattened, 

 concave or terete. 



Pultnuiea jler'dh^ Smith. 



An almost glabious shrub with flat, or slightly concave leaves, 

 glabrous calyx, with scarcely pointed lo])es shorter than the tube, 

 flowers axillary on rather long pedicels, with lanceolate, pointed 

 bracteoles lixed on the tube at the base, and ovary glabrous with a 

 few long hairs at the top. 



Victoria, New South Wales. 



Specimens from Clarence River, Beckler, are labelled "P. flexllis 

 var. mucronata," p. 135, Fl. Aust. They exactly match specimens 

 from Giggo Range, and the Dandenongs, Vic, since determined by 

 Muellei' as a variety of P. juniperina. These, as well as specimens 

 from Pine Mount, N.E. District, Walter, having pubescent ovary, 

 and bracts and Ijracteoles cf P. juniperina, must be referred to that 

 rspecies. 



Pulfenaca alfisslnw, F.v.M. 



A species which has been wrongly united with P. flexilis, from 

 which it differs in having its bracteoles ovate and free from the 



•calyx, in which characters it agrees with P. obovata Benth.. its 

 nearest affinity. It has also its flowers in terminal und:»el-like 

 racemes, not axillary as in P. flexilis, and its leaves are linear- 

 cuneate without points, and rarely over half-inch long. From P. 



■obovata it differs in having a much smaller calyx with shorter lobes, 

 and leaves' nariower. We should follow Bentham in keeping it a 

 distinct sjiecies. 



New South Wales, Twofold Bay, and Upper Genoa River; prob- 

 ably occurs in East Gippsland. 



Fidtenaea nhnvaftt, Benth. 



A New Soutli Wales species, like P. flexilis, but with broad-ovate 

 or broadly-cuneate leaves, tMo or three lines long, on rather long 

 petioles, concave, light green above. Calyx, with lobes longer 



