Ge,nus Puttenaea. I OS 



its nearest affinity, it has flowers in pairs, or singly terminal at the 

 end of very short branchlets, which are proliferous, causing the fruit 

 to appear lateral, but the bracts are not acute, nor twice as long as the 

 calyx, nor glabrous, but have broad, rounded lobes, hairy, and closely 

 imbricate. The calyx, also, is very different, the upper lo-bes being 

 united almost to the summit. It is an erect shrub with incurved 

 hispid leaves, while P. tenuifoUa is prostrate, and has straight and 

 almost glabrous leaves. 



Carlisle River, Otway Forest, Vic. Miss Sceaney, Nov. 1906, and 

 Willie Lucas, Nov. 1921. 



There is a fruiting specimen from the same district labelled 

 in Mueller's handwriting; "P. mollis, var. Heaths tetween the Gelli- 

 brand R. and Curdie's River, Mar. 1874." 



PULTENAEA BOORMANII, Sp. UOV. 



Frutex erectus, ramulis puherulis, foliis linear i-cylindricis supra, 

 canaliculatis 7-12 mm longis appresso-pilosulis in mucronem recu7-vu- 

 lum desmentihus^ st.pulis linear i-setaceis recur'vatis, fiorihus paucis 

 prope apicem ramulorum axillaribus, ^racteis nulliSj bracteolis lineart- 

 suhulatis calyce aequilongis stipulas setaceas ad hasin gerentiltus tubo 

 afflxis, calyce n mm longo villoso lol)is suhulatis 7 mm longis superior- 

 ibus paululum latiorihus, ovario glahro, ad summum cirrum album 

 gerente, stylo subulate, legumine non viso. 



An erect shrub to 2 ft. with very slender terete leaves and axillary 

 flowers with a remarkably short calyx tube, and with stipulate brac- 

 teoles fixed at the base of the calyx. 



In foliage this species resembles P. mollis Lindl. but it has flowers 

 axillary, and net in terminal heads. It must be placed in subsection 

 F. of Sect. Coelophyllum, between P. humilis and P. setulosa. 



It resembles ,the former in its long narrow calyx lobes and its 

 glabrous ovary surmounted by a tuft of white hairs, but differs from 

 it in having very slender terete leaves, and stipulate bracteoles set 

 higher on the calyx tube. P. setulosa with its fine points to leaves, 

 stipules and calyx lobes, and its longer calyx tube, can be easily dis- 

 tinguished from this species. 



It is named after Mr. J. L. Boorman, who first collected it. 



Mr. Cheel, Chief Asst. to the Gc'vernment Botanist, Sydney, has 

 supplied the following notes on the plant: — 



" It was originally collected at Minore, N.S.W., by Mr. J. L. Boor- 

 man, in Feb., 1899, and was determined by the late J. H. Camfield as 

 a doubtful form of P. echinula Sieb. In 1904, some additional speci- 

 mens were collected at Bidden Road, 7 miles from Gilgandra, North of 

 Dubbo, by Mr. R. H. Cambage, who sent them in under No. 1110, Oct. 

 15, '04, as a doubtful form of Dillwynla ericifolla. Duplicates of the 

 same plant from the same locality were sent in later by Mr. Cambage. 

 These were determined by the late Mr. Betche as P. mollis, Lindl., and 

 recorded in the Proc. Linn. Soc. of N.S.W., Vol. XXX. p. 360, as new 

 for N.S.W. In August, 1908, Mr. Boorman collected a small specimen 

 at Gocnoo, near Mudgee, and again in June, 1909, from the same 



