Lcguminosa.] \ . u- TASMANIA. 89 
seminibus ovoideis orbiculatisvc pallidis nitidis.— 1H . Pmdr. ii. 1 1 8. P. anrnitca. A. ( Imm. m I 
34,7. {Gunn, 4C7, 794, 795, 79G.) 
IIab. Northern parta of the Island: Rocky Cape, \Yoolnorth, and Hunpthi] 
etc.— (Fl. Oct.) 
Distrib. New South Wales. 
This agrees so well in most respects will) l.abillardierc's figure and description thai I can hardh doubt its 
being his plant, tluuigh that is deserihed as coining from "terra Van I.ceuwyn;" tin ' 
omitted, and the seeds are described as dark-coloured. — A small. Heath-like species, with ■ \<r\ 
many slender, wiry, erect or ascending brandies, 6-18 inches long, >ilk\ toward* the tips. Stij>ulvs minute, ovate- 
subulate. Leaves erect or recurved, \vr\ narrow and -lender, acicular or lii roua or slightly 
puberulous, acute or acuminate, concave in front or channelled, the margin- involut ' 
in dense terminal heads small, eloseU invested with numerous dark-brown, imbrie.. 
bracts (as in P. pimeleoides). Bracteoh's attached to the tube of the calyx, split or toothed, generally bifid, with 
cuspidate lobes and a central awn. Penh small. compressed, ovate, aeii 
S. Pultenaea prostrata (Benth. MSS.) ; panula, prostrata, dillhse ramo- 
ascendentibus sericeis. sti])tili> Mibulatis, fuliis aeieularibus >ericco-villo>is glabra!;-'. 
medio sidcatis, floribna solitariis terminalibna mnltibraeti 
obtusis bifidis, bracteolis basi calycis inscrtis ovato-laiu.volatis 
;:. L950.) 
! on short lateral bnmchlets, \-\ inch long, aeicular. rather thiekened upwards, blunt or acute, 
almost terete, channelled down the front, convex at the back, more or less pubescent or silky. Flowers solitary, 
terminal, enclosed in many imbricating pale brown, silky, bifid or variously lobed bracts. Calyx very silky, with 
two orate, seasons bracteolea inserted ai f. Flctoen \ inch long. 
§ 2. Prolifer.e (Benth.).— Flowers m terminal bracteate , 
i Hibbertioides (Hook, ill.) ; robusta, Immilis, molliter pilosa, caulib 
bentibus lignosis, ramis ascendentibus suberectisve molliter patentim pilosis, stipulis subrecuni 
subulatis squarrosis, foliis plurimis lineari-acerosis acumiuatis scaberulis et patentim pilosis 
medio antice canaliculars dorso convexis, capitulis terminalibus paucifloris mnltibraeieatis, bi 
neis scariosis dense imbricatis lanceolatis fissis lacerisve, calycibaa membranaceifl parce pilosi 
apice pedicelli insertis lanceolatis calyce sequilongis, legumine oblique elliptieo-ovato apicc s 
acummato subcompresso villoso, semine ovideo pallido. (0 
IIab. In large pab best, hreh a, on the road to Launc 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
long. Leaves spn ding, ving « u u I in h _ , ' - and also pilos< 
quite glabrous, convex at the back, deeply channelled down the front, acute or aeanun 
rounded by the leaves, which overtop them, hard, corneal at the base from the number of imbricatin« 
