38 Australian Plants. 
scantily clothed with short grey hair; germina silky ; pods 
stalked, many-seeded. 
On wooded hills; for instance, at Mount Disappointment, 
in the Goulburn Ranges, on the Delatite, in the Black 
Forest, at Balaarat, &c. 
This plant and several allied species tend to show, that the 
distinctions drawn between the genera Chorizema, Podolobium 
and Oxylobium are merely artificial. 
15. Oxylobium alpestre. 
Fruticose, diffuse or erect; leaves ternate or opposite, 
oblong-lanceolate, entire, sharp-pointed, soon glabrous, on 
the margin recurved; stipules linear - setaceous, reflexed ; 
umbels terminal, pedunculate, few-flowered, sometimes com- 
pound; bracteoles affixed to the base of the calyx, deciduous; 
calyx short grey-hairy; germina densely silky; pods villose, 
short-stalked, few-seeded. 
Not unfrequent in the higher parts of the Australian Alps. 
16. Pultenea Bentham. 
Robust, erect; twigs angular, somewhat silky; stipules 
lanceolate -subulate, concrete at the base; leaves nearly 
flat, coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong, awnless or ending ina 
sharp point, either smooth and even on both sides, or below 
silky; petiole very short; heads terminal, few-flowered, 
surrounded at the base by imbricate brown, ovate, or round- 
ish ciliolate bracteas; bracteoles navicular - lanceolate, with 
exception of the margin, smooth, brown, scarious, affixed to 
the tube of the whitish silky calyx; upper-lip of the calyx 
short - bilobed, considerably shorter than the lanceolate 
subulate laciniz of the lower lip; germen, together with the 
basis of the style silky. 
On springs and rivulets in the Grampians, and amongst 
rocks on the top of Mount Abrupt. 
This elegant species, which stands nearest to P. myrtoides 
All. Cunn., has been named in honour of Mr. George Bentham, 
the eminent monographer of this class of plants. 
17. Phyllota pleurandroides. 
Twigs pubescent; leaves recurved, spreading, linear, sharp 
ointed, scabrous, with refract margin, the floral ones crowded 
and below the middle villose; flowers concealed between the 
