86 ELORA OP TASMANIA. \Leguminos(B . 
Hab. Common in grassy and heathy places throughout the Colony. — (Fl. Oct. Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia and New South Wales. (Cultivated in England.) 
This, though often prostrate, is sometimes erect, and has then the hahit of D. glaberrima, from which it differs 
conspicuously in the single-flowered peduncles, which do not form corymbs, but are aggregated, generally at the tips 
of the branches, into corymb-like heads. It is much more difficult to distinguish it from D.floribunda by general 
characters, but it is a far more slender, graceful plant, with much more slender, filiform, glabrous leaves, and the flowers 
are less villous, and comparatively rarely lateral.— Stems 6 inches to 2 feet high, sparingly branched, slender, gla- 
brous below, silky towards the tips. Leaves as variable in size as those of D. glaberrima, and quite like them. 
Peduncle and calyx villous or silky ; lobes of the latter blunt. 
Gen. VII. PULTENiEA, Smith. 
Calyx campanulatus, basi bibracteolatus, seuriquinquefidus, subsequalis v. subbilabiatus. Vexittum 
rotundatum, alas oblongas superans. Carina recta, obovata v. oblonga. Stamina 10, libera; filamentis 
nudis. Ovarium sessile, 2-ovulatum. Stylus deciduus. Legumen ovatum, compressum, v. subturgidum. 
Semina strophiolata. — Frutices; foliis altemis, simplicibus, integerrimis v. apice bilobis ; stipulis scariosis, 
rarius 0; inflorescentia terminali v. axillari ; fioribus solitariis cqpitatisvej bracteis scariosis v. 0. 
One of the largest genera of Australian Leguminosce, and found in no other part of the globe ; about seventy 
species have been discovered, chiefly on the extratropical eastern side of Australia, only one tropical species being 
known. — Shrubs, often small and Heath-like, never arborescent. Leaves alternate, entire or lobed at the apex, simple, 
with scarious stipules or none. Inflorescence in short capitate corymbs or heads, or solitary. Calyx with two small 
bracts at the base, campanulate, equal or two-lipped, five-lobed. Standard orbicular. Wings oblong. Keel straight. 
Stamens ten ; filaments free, glabrous. Ovary sessile, with two ovules. Pod compressed or turgid, short. Seeds 
without a strophulus. — The sections of this genus are those proposed by Bentham, and are provisional only. 
(Named in honour of Dr. W. Pulteney, a botanical author.) 
§ 1. Capitate. — Mower -buds forming terminal heads, rarely solitary, surrounded with scarious bracts. 
Stipules minute or none. 
1. Ptdtensea daphnoides (Smith, in Ann. Bot. i. 502) ; erecta, virgata, 5-pedalis, ramulis angulatis 
sericeis, stipulis parvis ovatis, foliis obovato-cuneiformibus costa percurrente mucronatis utrinque glaberrimis, 
fioribus dense capitatis, pedicellis basi bracteis scariosis suffultis, calyce sericeo-villoso.— Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 98 ; 
Sims, Bot. Mag. 1. 1394; Br. Eort. Kew. ed. 2. iii. 18; DC. Prodr. ii. 110. {Gunn, 185.) 
Var. /3. ohcordata ; foliis brevioribus. — P. obcordata, Andr. B. Rep. t. 574 ; Br. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iii. 18. 
Hab. Var. /3. obcordata, not uncommon in various parts of the Island. — (Fl. Oct. Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. Var. a. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
An erect shrub 5-6 feet high, the largest of the genus, flowering abundantly, and very handsome. Branches 
erect, slender, striated, angled, silky, as are the petioles. Leaves ±-1 inch long, obovate-cuneate, shortly petiolate, 
with a stout midrib forming a strong excurrent point, deep green above, pale beneath. Stipules ovate, small, red- 
brown, scarious. Flowers in terminal heads ; buds surrounded with scarious oblong deciduous scales, that are silky 
at the back. Pedicels short, with imbricating broadly-ovate scarious brown bracts at the base. Calyx shaggy 
with silky silvery hairs ; bracteoles linear, shorter than the calyx-lobes. Corolla variable in size and colour. Stan- 
dard bright yellow, about i inch across. Wings usually deep purple.— I have united P. obcordata with the P. daph- 
noides, Sm., of which it is undoubtedly only a southern form, with generally rather shorter leaves. Gunn remarks 
that it is tender in Tasmania, and that the young shoots of plants in his garden are annually frostbitten. 
2. Pultenaea stricta (Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1588) ; erecta v. decumbens, virgata, 1-2-pedalis, ramulis 
