98 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST, 



The notes of the second tramp, via Dark River, will follow 

 in a later issue. 



[The i^aper was illustrated by a large number of lantern slides. 

 — Ed. Vict. I^at.] 



ON THREE NEW SPECIES OF PULTEN^EA. 



By J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist, and Director of the 



Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



(Communicated by J. F. Haase.) 



{Read before the Field Naturalists' Clnh of Victoria, \Wi Axg^tst, 1905.) 

 PULTEN^A VROLANDI, Sp. nOV. 



A diffuse shrub up to 6 feet in height, with terete branches, the 

 young branches very pubescent with woolly white hairs. 



Leaves numerous, shortly petiolate, rather stiff but not rigid, 

 broad-lanceolate to oval elliptical, 3 or 4 lines long or shorter, 

 with incurved margins, the young leaves somewhat conduplicate, 

 slightly concave, glabrous or rather granular, rough on the upper 

 surface, hairy beneath, becoming glabrous with maturity. Shortly 

 recurved at the end, especially wlien young, and terminating in 

 an acute point with often three veins spreading on the under side 

 from the petiole, the middle one being also sometimes more or less 

 penniveined. 



Stiindes rather narrow and flat, about i line long, dark coloured 

 along the centre, scabrous at tlie sides, becoming setaceous with 

 age ; persistent. 



Flowers from 3 to 6, apparently forming a head, but really in 

 the axils of the last leaves, on pedicels of 2 lines or rather more, 

 slender and pubescent, the shoot being produced beyond the 

 highest pedicel by the time the pods have matured. 



Bracts stipular, i.e., the stipules take the place of bracts ; viscid. 



Bracteoles inserted rather below the base of the calyx and 

 completely embracing the tube, semi-transparent, very convex and 

 almost orbicular in general outline, the edges overlapping each 

 other and having very much the appearance pf a two-leaved cup- 

 shaped involucre, glabrous and very viscid. 



Calyx glabrous and very thin, the tube viscid on the outside, 

 seemingly from contact with the bracteoles, the lobes almost as 

 long as the tube, the upper lobes scarcely as long as the others, 

 all acute. 



Standard nearly orbicular, with the very narrow claw twice as 

 long as the calyx, the lamina about 4 lines in diameter, the veins 

 purple in their lower parts. 



Wings about as long as the standard, scarcely i line broad. 



Keel slightly broader than the wings, but scarcely as long, obtuse, 

 with purple markings. 



Ovarium sessile, villous, oval. 



