90 FLORA OF TASMANIA. \_Leguminos<£ : 
striated, scarious, lanceolate bracts, that are split or lacerated. Flowers three to five in a head, sessile, or on slender 
pedicels, i inch long. Calyx membranous, sulcate ; lobes pilose, acute ; bracteoles lanceolar, attached to the very 
apex of the pedicel, as long as the calyx. Pod half as long again as the calyx, obliquely elliptical-ovate, rather 
turgid, abruptly narrowed to an acuminate point. Seed pale, ovoid, blunt, with a large oblong carunculus. 
This plant is named P. mollis, Lindl., by Muller in his Victoria collections, but differs from Lindley's plant in 
the less leafy heads, and especially in the long bracteolse at the base of the calyx. Muller sends a very curious 
state, that I have not seen from Tasmania, and which is nearly glabrous, and has much shorter, broader, linear or 
linear-oblong leaves, with three obscure nerves, and the upper surface covered with short, hispid hairs. It does not 
in the least resemble any of the Tasmanian or of Dr. Midler's other specimens, and shows how much these variable 
plants require investigation on the spot, and a proper selection of all states and varieties. The common Tasmanian 
state resembles a Hibbertia in habit and general appearance. 
10. Pultenaea juniperina (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. p. 103. t. 130); frutex erectus rigidus, ramulis 
pilosis et pubescente-tomentosis, stipulis subulatis, foliis patulis petiolatis rigidis linearibus lineari-lanceola- 
tisve subtriquetris glabris longe aristato-acuminatis superne concavis dorso costa carinatis, floribus subcapi- 
tals solitariisve terminalibus bracteis parvis imbricatis aristatis, pedicellis tomentosis, bracteolis basi calycis 
insertis ovato-lanceolatis obtusis pungentibusve ciliatis calyce dimidio brevioribus, leguminibus lineari- 
oblongis turgidis calyce duplo longioribus pubescentibus, seminibus oblongis atro-fuscis.— DC. Prodr. ii. 
113. (Gunn, 179, ] 951, 1952.) 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island, ascending to 4000 feet, LabilUrdiere, etc. — (Fl. Nov ) 
{v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
A common and very variable plant, forming an erect, rigid, woody, prickly shrub, often 6 feet high, covered 
with pungent leaves and bright, rather pale, yellow flowers. Branches generally very tomentose. Stipules small, 
appressed to the branches. Leaves 1-4 inch long, rigid, linear-lanceolate or narrow linear-subulate, generally 
spreading at right angles from the apex of a slender petiole, which is appressed to the stem. Flowers terminal, 
generally two or three together. Bracts small, ovate-acuminate, pungent. Bracteola small, inserted at the base of 
the calyx, and much shorter than its tube, generaUy lanceolate-acuminate and pungent, ciliated. Pedicel tomen- 
tose. Calyx with short spreading lobes, two-lipped, pubescent. Corolla about i inch long. Pod ovate-oblong or 
linear-oblong, acuminate, twice as long as the calyx; valves turgid, pubescent. Seeds obtong, almost black.— This 
differs a little from the section to which it belongs in the flowers being scarcely capitate, and the stipules small. 
The following is perhaps not specifically distinct from it. 
11. Pultenaea cordata (Graham in Ed. Phil. Journ. xx. 195) ; frutex rigidus erectus, ramis ro- 
bustis, ramulis tomentosis et patentim pilosis dense foliosis, stipulis subulatis appressis, petiolis gracilibus, 
foHis patentibus rigidis ovato- v. cordato-lanceolatis acuminato-aristatis pungentibus glaberrimis v. dorso 
basi ciliatis superne concavis dorso costa carinatis, capitubs terminalibus 6-8-floris, bracteis parvis acutis 
pungentibusve, calyce patentim piloso, bracteolis basi insertis ovato-lanceolatis acutis pungentibusve tubo 
brevioribus.— Hook Bot. Mag. t. 3443. {Gunn, 1052.) 
Hab. In stony places, Asbestos Hills, and York Town, Gunn; Bagdad, Miss Forster.—m. Oct. 
Nov.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
This differs very much in general appearance from P. juniperina, owing chiefly to the much more crowded, 
broader, uniformly patent leaves; but it is in other respects so closely allied to that plant, that I doubt its being 
more than a variety of it.— Branches densely tomentose with spreading hairs. Stipules, petioles, and fioicers as in 
P. juniperina. Leaves ±-± mcu long, broadest at the base, and there ovate or cordate, gradually tapering to the 
