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Aroona Eange, and spreading tlience along course of Mount 

 Parry Creek. B. Tate. 



This species lias close affinity witli K. triptera, and tHougli the- 

 number of yertical wings is normally five for tlie one and tliree 

 for the other, yet the latter has occasionally a fourth, as al- 

 ready indicated by Bentham, and the former has the fifth some- 

 times diminutive. Despite these approximating characters, 

 there is the difference in habit, in shape and size of the 

 fruiting perianth and its accessory parts, whilst the silky 

 hairs of K. pentatropis is peculiar. In K. triptera the horizontal 

 wings are united to form a complete ring, but in K. pentatropis 

 the union is incomplete, there being always either one segment 

 free or the continuity of the ring interrupted by at least one 

 sinus decurrent along a vertical wing ; moreover, the horizon- 

 tal wing is more or less lobed between the vertical wings. 



PuLTEXiEA GKAYEOLEXS. 



A wide-spreadiug shrub, usually about three, but attaining 

 to five feet high ; branchlets lax, somewhat drooping ; branch- 

 lets, leaves, and calyx clothed with white soft hairs. Leaves 

 alternate, oblong-linear, two lines long, obtuse or minutely 

 2)oiuted, margins slightly incurved, midrib prominent on the- 

 underside, shortly stalked. Stipules narrow-lanceolar, very 

 small, persistent, yellow hyaline, and viscid while young, 

 riowers solitary in the upper axils, on peduncles half or nearly 

 the length of the subtending leaf, forming short leafy terminal 

 racemes. Bracteoles two, narrow-lanceolar, small, persistent, 

 adnate to near the base of the calyx- tube, yellow-hyaline and 

 viscid while young. Calyx ciliate, about one and a half lines 

 long ; lobes lanceolate, fine pointed, longer than the tube, the 

 tv.'o upper ones broader and not so deeply cleft. Corolla fully 

 twice as long as l!io calyx; standard, oval-cordate, a little 

 longer than broad. ;, ellow tinged with red at the margin and 

 streaked with the same colour at the base ; wiugs spathulate, 

 yellow, as long as the standard ; keel a little shorter than the 

 wings, pale-yellow, with the upper half reddish-brown, brighter 

 coloured on the inside. Stamens ten, free, of unequal length. 

 Style filiform, glabrous, curved, a little longer than the 

 stamens. Ovary longitudinally ridged, silky-hairy. Pod 

 triangular-ovate in outline, half as long again as the calyx, 

 valves slightly curved transversely, surface carunculate and 

 covered with appressed silky hairs. Seed one, attached near 

 to the base of the fruit by a strophiole, oval of a reddish colour 

 except around the hilum, where it is black. 



The foliage emits a strong odour like that of spirit contami- 

 nated with animal matter. 



This species forms thickets in the open parts of the stringy- 



