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ring on the uppe 
raised tubercles resembling minute prickles, all vay spreading, the | 
i i i racts. Flowers | 
! m emes often — 
edicels short. Bracts narrow-linear, close under 
the calyx. Calyx more or less hirsute, 2 to 3 lines long, the lips broad, 
entire, nearly equal or the lower one rather smaller. l 
or nearly so. Anthers with one appendage nearly half as long again 
as the cell, the other short and adnate.—Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 561 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls, and others; granitic ranges W.of 
Bathurst, A. Cunningham. : 
Mist Buffalo Range, Futter's Range, Bendigo, Grampians, F. Mueller; Wim 
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prickles. e spe 1 
P. hirtula forms almost a passage from the racemose to the axillary inflorescences. 
SERIES 2. Convexx.—Leaves small or narrow, sessile or shortly | 
petiolate, convex or with revolute margins at least when dry (in P. 
cuneata and P. spinosa, the margins usually flat but occasionally narrowly | : 
recurved). Flowers axillary, the floral leaves all similar to the stem :] 
ones or rather smaller, and the flowering branch usually growing out | 
beyond the flowers. 
18. P. rugosa, A. Cunn. in Benth. Lab. Gen. et Sp. 456, and in DC. I 
Prod. xii. 563. — A robust divaricately-branched shrub, pubescent or hit | 
sute with short rigid hairs. Leaves small, sessile or nearly so, ovate, f 
s long as the calyx. Anthers with v 1 
appendages adnate, one shortly free at the end but shorter than E 
cell, the other still shorter. P 
N. S. Wales. Mountainous country bordering on Hunter’s River, A. Cunninghami | 
lonkey Creek, Woolls. E] 
14. P. marifolia, R. Br. Prod. 509. An undershrub with twigg |. 
branches, pubescent or hirsute with short rigid hairs. Leaves § 
or very shortly petiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, entire, d 
revolute margins, scabrous-hispid above but not rugose, whitish unde" 
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