THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 99 



Style leaving the ovarium rather abruptly, subulate, sparingly 

 pubescent to half-way up. 



Stigma very small. 



Pod almost oblong, hairy, half as long again as the calyx, the 

 pedicels lengthening to about 3 lines. 



On summit of a granite hill about 12 miles from Euroa and 2 

 from Mt. Wombat, in the Strathbogie Ranges, Victoria. Collected 

 by Mr. Anton W. Vroland, teacher of Strathbogie State school. 

 No. 974 of herbarium of Mr. H. B. Williamson, then of Hawkes- 

 dale, Victoria, by whom it was forwarded to me. 



In the ordinary sense of the term, the species does not possess 

 bracts ; what pass for such are the stipules situated at the bases 

 of the pedicels and in the axils of the leaves. The cup-shaped 

 involucre-like bracteoles are very distinctive, and are similar to 

 those of P. involucrata, which character, together with its slender 

 pedicels and the viscidity of the calyx, bracteoles, stipular bracts, 

 and to some extent the young stipules, make it a very distinct 

 species. Its aspect is similar to tiiat of the short-leaved typical 

 form of P. villosa, Sm. 



PULTEN^A WILLIAMSONI, sp. nOV. 



A weak-Stemmed shrub " trailing amongst shrubs." 



Leaves not numerous, up to i inch long, oval to elliptical or 

 oblong-lanceolate or even slightly oblanceolate, shortly petiolate, 

 with slightly recurved margins or almost flat, with a small 

 recurved point, frequently worn ofT in the old leaves ; silky 

 pubescent underneath, sparingly so in the older leaves. 



Stifndes broadish, appressed, up to 3 lines long ; much 

 broader than those of P. jmlacea usually are ; with scarious 

 margins. 



Floioers in dense terminal heads, say half an inch in diameter. 

 Rhachis of the flower-head much elongated. 



Bracts imbricate, glabrous or ciliate, scarious, pointed, keeled 

 in the upper part and often three-pointed by splitting along both 

 sides of the keel. 



Bracteoles inserted at the very base of the calyx but free from 

 the tube, broad and keeled, completely enveloping the calyx, in 

 shape and texture like the bracts, obtuse but mucronate, and also 

 often splitting along both sides of the keel, thus appearing three- 

 cleft. 



Standard about twice as long as the calyx, say 3 lines in 

 diameter, the base with spreading purple markings. 



Wings as long as the standard, scarcely a line broad ; the keel 

 broader than the wings. 



Ovari^im sessile, silky, compressed. 



Fruit sessile, sub-triangular, curved, but not seen perfectly 

 ripe. 



