104 H. B. Williamson: 



locality, with the following note: "A small, bushy plant, 1-2 ft, high, 

 growing in dry places in lorest land. No flowers hitherto met with. 

 Identical plants found at Nundle, and at Warialda." Later, Mr. 

 Cheel, in sending in his report on a specimen sent to me, gave his 

 opinion that it was not P. mollis, but an undescribed species, and it 

 was arranged on the advice of Mr. J. H. Maiden, that I should describe 

 the plant. 



PULTENAEA ReADERIANA, Sp. UOV. 



Frutex circiter 1 m alius, ramulis pubescentihus, foliis ovatO' 

 lanceolatis vel suhcuneatis patentihus. o-lO mm lonyis margine paulu- 

 lum incurvatis molle patenii-villosis, peiiolis 1.3 mm longiSy stipulis 

 subulatis recurvatis vel appressis latiorlbusque in ramulis junioribus, 

 floribus S-5 breves ramulos terminantibus in capitula foliosa con- 

 fertis, bracteis nullis praeter latas stipulas foliorum floralium, brae- 

 teolis linearibus cdiatis tubo calycis subaequilongis interdum stipulas 

 gerentibus, calyce Jf-5 mm longo pubescente, lobis acutis tubo longior- 

 ibus, inferioribus angustioribus, ovario sericeo-villoso, legumine non 

 viso. 



A shrub about 3 ft. high, with leaves cvate-lanceolate to almost 

 cuneate, much spreading, about two lines long, on very distinct 

 petioles, slightly incurved at the margin, and beset with soft spreading 

 hairlets. Flowers are in terminal leafy heads, 3 or 4 together on the 

 very short branchlets. The broad stipules of the floral leaves take 

 the place of bracts, and the bracteoles are linear, beset with hairs, 

 nearly as long as the calyx lobes, fixed at the very base of the calyx 

 tube, and occasionally provided with scarious stipules. The calyx is 

 about two lines long, with narrow acute lobes, membranous, and 

 beset with hairs. The ovary is quite covered with silky hairs. 



This plant has been wrongly determined as a form of P. villosa 

 Sm. In foliage it resembles that species, but its flowers are all 

 terminal, its calyx a very different shape, not being falcate, and its 

 bracteoles are not leafy, as in P. villosa. Its nearest ally is P. his- 

 pidula R. Br. from which it differs in not having a very small calyx 

 with short lobes and long bracteoles. 



Southern Grampians, Vic, Nov. 1907, H. B. Williamson, No. 

 1369. Merton, Vic. A. W, Hewitt, No. 974, 



Some specimens collected in the Dandenong Ranges and deter- 

 mined as P. villosa are referable to this species. 



Named in memory of the late F. M. Reader, who first examined 

 the plant at my request in 1907, and who was well-known as an en- 

 thusiastic and careful botanist, who did much valuable research work 

 on the flora of Victoria, especially in the Mallee District. 



Pultenaea barbata, C. Andrews. 

 (Journal, W.A. Nat. Hist. Soc, No. 1, p. 38, 1904.) 



An erect shrub of two feet with virgate branches, glabrous or 

 -slightly silky when young. Leaves alternate or scattered, narrow- 

 linear, 3-5 lines long on very short petioles, minutely hispid and tuber- 



