100 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Near creeks, Strathbogie, Victoria. Anton VV. Vroland 

 November, 1902 (No. 921 of H. B. Williamson). 



Its closest allies seem to be P. pycnocephala, F. v. M., and 

 P. palacea, Willd. Herbarium specimens bear a superficial 

 resemblance to P. stricta, Sims, but the latter has never such 

 large stipules, and the habit is very different. The shape of 

 bracts and bracteoles is much like those of P. palacea, but the 

 bracteoles are distinctly free from the calyx. It is a stronger and 

 more robust grower than P. palacea, although of the same habit. 

 The leaves are very much broader than those of P. palacea and 

 almost flat. The difference as regards the bracteoles is very 

 marked, and seems of itself sufficient to remove it from that 

 species. From P. pycnocephala it differs in the less abundant 

 tomentum and in the greater length of the leaves. 



PULTEN^EA LUEHMANNI, Sp. UOV. 



A trailing procumbent straggling shrub with very slender 

 glabrous branches. 



Leaves opposite, though sometimes irregularly opposite in some 

 shoots, linear to narrow-lanceolate, with so much incurved margins 

 that they appear often terete and grooved above, 4-6 lines long, 

 quite glabrous. Stipules small. 



Flowers in small few-flowered terminal heads (or rather umbels) 

 surrounded by a few stipulary imbricate bracts, hardly as long as 

 the pedicels, and by a few, generally 4, floral leaves. 



Bracteoles very small, lanceolate, inserted at the base of the 

 calyx, but free from it, densely silky-hairy outside as the calyx 

 and the pedicels. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, acute, about as long as 

 the tube, the two upper ones united half-way up. 



Petals of about the same length ; the wings and the margins of 

 the standard orange-coloured, the keel and central part of the 

 standard dark brown. 



Ovarium sessile, densely silky-hairy. 



The most striking character in this graceful plant is the 

 slender branches, almost filiform in the side-branchlets and the 

 distant leaves ; the leaves are on the flowering branches from % to 

 above i inch apart, though they are denser on leafy shoots ; but 

 I have seen only a few specimens. 



Grampians, Victoria. H. B. Williamson, No. 1160. Novem- 

 ber, 1904. 



The systematic position of the species is in Section iii., Euchilus, 

 on account of its opposite leaves and branches, but it is distin- 

 guished from all species of this section by the head-like inflor- 

 escence. Its closest affinity appears to be P. tenella, Benth. 



I dedicate this beautiful species to the memory of my friend 

 and colleague J. G. Luehmann, Government Botanist of Victoria, 

 whose death, following too closely on that of Mueller, leaves a 

 great gap in the sparse ranks of Australian botanical systematists. 



