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Australiensis in 1864, preferred to follow Sir Joseph Hooker's 

 indications of the generic position of the plant, vol. ii,, p. 119. 

 Having directed the attention of my kind Tasmanian corres- 

 pondents to the desirability, to set this question at rest by a 

 search for the fruit, I was glad to receive from Mr. Simson, 

 quite recently, well-matured fruit specimens. These have 

 the pods about 2 lines long, ovate ; its valves inside finely 

 downy ; the seeds, of which only one matured in each pod, 

 are about one line long, oval, greenish -brown, with black 

 spots and devoid of any stropMole. This last mentioned note 

 is decisive for Fhyllota and excludes our plant from the genus 

 Pultenaea. Unless, therefore, Fhyllota is given altogether up 

 as a genus, it must include now finally ; Pultenaea diffusa, 

 although certainly the great value of the presence or absence 

 of a strophiole for generic discrimination in PodalyriecB loses 

 its importance exceptionally in Oxijlohium ; but Fhyllota is 

 irrespectively reported by the structure of its bractioles 

 and to some extent by the want of stipules, which latter 

 characteristic however, is not absolute. 



There is another Fultencea, the West Australian P. iirodon 

 of Bentham, which needs removal to the genus Fhyllota. I 

 find the pod about 2 lines long, roundish or rhomboid, ovate, 

 inside glabrous, outside as well as the lower portion of the 

 style soft-hairy. The seeds are dark brown, but seen by me 

 only in a half-ripe state, then very much incurved, and 

 exhibiting no trace of a strophiole. 



Turozaninow in defining originally the genus TJrodon (sub- 

 sequently reduced by Bentham to Fidtenaea,) alluded only to 

 Fhyllota as allied and not to any other genus. 



