Genus Pultenaea, 101 



a few silky hairs below. Flowers solitary in the upper axils with 

 no bracts. The bracteoles are about half a line long, and are fixed 

 high on the calyx tube. 



This plant belongs to the Section Eupultenaea, and in foliage re- 

 minds one of P. retusa Sm. Only three other plants in the? Section 

 have flowers not in terminal heads, viz., P. coriferta Bth., P. Millai'i 

 Bail, and P pedunculata H.K. The first-named is easily distinguished 

 by its peculiar calyx with its free upper lobes. P. Millari differs from 

 the new plant in having larger, almost ovate leaves with a dense, 

 silky tomentum beneath, and in its larger stipules, a flattened style, 

 hairy from below upwards, and long bracteoles, fixed at the base 

 of the calyx. 



Crow's Nest, on the Northern Darling Downs, Southern Queens- 

 land. Dr. Frederick Hamilton Kenny, Feb. 1922. 



Dr. Kenny, after whom the plant is named, is an enthusiastic 

 l)otanist, and was accompanying Mr. C. T. White, F.L.S., Government 

 Botanist of Queensland, on a botanising trip when the plant was 

 found. 



Pultenaea teretifolia, sp. nov. 



Frutex pai'vus^ ramulis pubescenWbus, foliis tenuissimis linearis 

 iCylindricis supra canaliculatis puherulis vel hispidulis 8-12 mm longis, 

 fl07-i1)us hreves ramulos termlnantibus in capitula confertis, stipulis 

 suhulatis, hracteis 7iullis vel paucis hrevihusque, hracteolis linearidus 

 villosis tubo' calycis aequilongis eoque ad basin affixis, calyce pubes- 

 cente canescente lobis acutis tubo subaequilongis superioribus latius- 

 culis quam inferiora, ovario villoso, stylo subulato. 



A shrub with very slender terete leaves minutely hispid, and with 

 a light coloured calyx and linear ciliate bracteoles. 



South Australia: "Murray Scrub," Spencer Gulf (Coll?), War- 

 iinda, near Port Lincoln, Griffith. Kangaroo I., O. Tepper. Marble 

 Range, Wilhelmi. 



This plant has been included by Bentham under P. mollis Lindl. 

 as " var. canescensT' p. 128, Fl. Aust. The query mark shows that 

 he was doubtful. It should rank as a species, being well away from 

 P. mollis in indumentum, inflorescence and bracteoles, which latter 

 are linear ciliate not keeled. It is nearest to P. canaliculata F. v. M. 

 under which written name indeed one specimen was placed as a 

 variety by Mueller in his herbarium. Its fine leaves, hispid, not silky, 

 its flowers capitular crowded, and short bracteoles fixed on the 

 calyx, not under it, keep it distinct from that species. 



Var. brachyphylla^ var. nov. 

 Variat floribus paucis, petalis aU'o-rubris, foliis J^mm longis. 

 A plant with thicker and shorter leaves and fewer flowers and 

 darker petals which has been found labelled " P. adunca Turcz." 

 S.A.: Kangaroo I. and Harriet, O. Tepper. 



