THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 51 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO iTHE FLORA OF VICTORIA. 



No. XIV. 



By F. M. Reader, F.R.H.S. 



(Communicated by G. Weindorfer.) 



{Read he/ore titc Field Naturalists^ Club of Victoria, 12th June, 1905.) 



PULTEN^A WEINDORFKRI, Sp. IIOV. 



A slender, erect shrub, attaining the height of 5 feet ; glabrous, 

 with the exception of a few hairs on the inner side of the calyx 

 lobes, ciliee on the margin, and a ring of minute hairs at the base 

 of the pedicels ; with terete branches, which, when young, are 

 generally covered with crowded leaves and appressed stipules. 



Leaves shoit-stalked, more or less tapering towards the base, 

 linear or broad-linear, erect or somewhat spreading and recurved 

 at the end ; blunt or with a small callous termination, upwards to 

 j4-inch long ; concave, with the margin more or less incurved, 

 forming a channel or a groove ; or they are almost flat, with the 

 margin slightly incurved ; underneath with the midrib more or 

 less prominent. Stipules of the young shoots and at first those 

 of the floral leaves partly united ; upwards to 2 lines long or 

 more ; the lobes narrow, subulate, acuminate ; those of the floral 

 leaves broader. Flowers in leafy heads or short umbel-like leafy 

 racemes, growing out into very short leafy shoots ; the 

 floral leaves, with their large, brown bract-like stipules, concealing 

 the rachis and pedicels ; the latter about i ^ lines long. Bracteoles 

 inserted on the calyx tube near the base, linear or broader at the 

 base, somewhat subulate and keeled, shorter than the calyx, 

 about 2 lines long. Occasionally, when the flower is in bud, tipped 

 with one or two ciliaj or long hairs, and with one or two along 

 the back. Calyx about 3 lines long, without the pedicel ; the 

 lobes sub-equal, narrow-lanceolate, somewhat falcate, longer 

 than the tube, the two upper united at the base, sliglitly broader ; 

 the middle of the lower lobes longer than the others. Petals 

 entirely yellow, sub-equal. Standard about half as long again as 

 the calyx, slightly emarginate ; keel emarginate. Ovary glabrous, 

 tapering into the flat style. Pod (unripe) obliquely-ovate. 



Collected at Wandin, in a swamp, near the road from Lilydale 

 to Warburton, 25 miles from Melbourne, in September, 1903, by 

 Mr. G. Weindorfer. 



This species belongs to the section Coelophyllum, and in the 

 shape of the stipules on the branches, approaches F. stiindaris 

 and glabra, but the arrangement of the flowers is different. It 

 should be placed in the neiglibourhood oi P. laxi/lora, largijiorens, 

 and villosu, from all of which, and of other species of the same 

 sub-section, it may easily be discerned by the large stipules, and 

 especially those of the floral leaves. In P. densijolia, ellijjtica. 



