Genus Pidtenaea, 99 



Director, Dr. Prain, says: — "There can be little doubt that certain 

 specimens enumerated in the Flora Aust., under pedunculata repre- 

 sent P. Ausfelclii, especially those from ' Windu Valley, Robert- 

 son,' 'Bugle Range, Mueller,' (Mueller Exped. 1838). ' Belair,' (931), 

 ' Koch.' Unfortunately no specimen of P. pedunculata was laid down 

 at the time when the species was described, and I have failed to 

 identify any of our specimens written up as P. pedunculata with the 

 JBot. Mag. plate." Dr. Prain, commenting on this last statement, says: 

 " This may either mean that the Bot. Mag. figure is not correctly 

 drawn, or that the plant which flowered at Kew in 1828 was a mem- 

 ber of the same group of forms, but one that has never been met 

 with again," It will be seen that I have decided in favour of the 

 former of these possibilities. Copies of descriptions, figures and 

 comments thereon kindly sent from Kew have helped me consider- 

 ably in discussing this difficult matter. Two forms divergent from 

 the type may be noted as varieties: — 



Var. pilosa, var. nov. 



Va7'iat calyce et pedunculis sericeo-pilosis, foliis paulo recurvatis. 



A form with silky hairs on calyx and peduncles, and leaves some- 

 what recurved at the tips. 



Chewton, near Bendigo, Vic. (Coll?) 



Var. latifoliaj var. nov, 



Variat foliis ohlongo-lanceolatis, 'bracteolis calycis loMs longo-suhU' 

 latis pedunculis pollicem longis. 



A form with oblong lanceolate leaves, long-subulate calyx lobes and 

 l)racteoles and peduncles an inch long. 

 Port Lincoln, S.A. (Coll?) 



PULTENAEA CUNNINGHAMIi;, (Bth) F. V. M. 



(Spadostyles Cunninghamii, Bth. in Ann. Wien Mus. ii. 81, 



ISZS -.Pultenaca ternata, F. Muell. Fragm, 1, 8, and iv, 



21, 1858.) 



The combin. " P. Cunninghamii " was suggested by Mueller in 



Fragm. iv. 21, as a name for P. ternata and P. styphelioides if united, 



so we may accept the suggestion except as regards the inclusion of 



the latter plant. 



A shrub usually glabrous, often glaucous, with sessile leaves all in 

 whorls of three, broadly rhomboidal, truncate or shortly tapering, 

 the midrib produced into a sharp thorny point, 2 to 9 lines long, 

 usually broader than long, often 3 to 5 nerved at the base, with 

 flowers in axils on pedicels 2 to 3 lines long, with bracteoles narrow- 

 lanceolate or linear, subulate, inserted on the base of the calyx. Calyx 

 3 to 5 lines long, with lower lobes longer than the tube, upper much 

 l)roader, united above the middle. Ovary glabrous, tapering into 

 a flattened style. 



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