Genus Fultenaea. 105 



culate, with closely revolute margins. Stipules suppressed. Flowers 

 in heads or umbels apparently terminal, but with a short leafy shoot 

 slightly exceeding the flowers in the middle of the umbel. Pedicels 

 very short. Bracts not apparent even in the bud. Bracteoles linear- 

 lanceolate, villous, persistent, inserted under and free from the calyx, 

 2-2^ lines long. Calyx silky, villous, 2-2^ lines long, the three lower 

 lobes slightly longer than the tube, subulate, the upper lobes broader, 

 and united higher up. Standard 3 lines long, broad, dark-brown. 

 Wihgs slightly shorter and similar in colour. Keel obtuse, slightly 

 incurved, yellow. . Ovary villous, tapering into a long incurved style, 

 of which the lower part is villous all over, and the upper part glab- 

 rous except for the fringe of white silky hairs on the inner side. 

 Pod not seen. 



This species belongs to the section Eupultenaea. The habit, 

 foliage, and style are like those of Phyllota harbata, Benth., but it 

 has the free stamens and strophiolate ovules of Pultcnaea.. Its nearest 

 iilly is perhaps P. plnifoUa^ Meiss., from which it differs in shorter 

 leaves, absence of stipules, persistent bracteoles, narrow calyx lobes, 

 smaller flowers and peculiar style. 



In flower, October, 1903, near Phillips River, W.A. Andrews. 



The above is taken from the Journal Nat. Hist. Soc. W.A. I have 

 not been able to ascertain where the type specimen of the plant 

 was placed, if indeed it was preserved at all. 



It would be well if the rule: — " That for a species to be recog- 

 nised, the type must be deposited in some leading Botanical Institu- 

 tion of the country in which it is gathered." were always followed. 



PULTENAEA ARIDA, E. Pritzel. 



(Engler's Bot. Jahrb. Bd. XXXV. 258, 1905.) 



" Shrub 20-30 cm. high, with opposite spreading branches, some- 

 times spinescent, the young branches hoary-pubescent. Leaves op- 

 posite or ternate, very shortly petiolate, 3-5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad 

 obovate, or almost truncate, obtuse, nearly flat, densely and finely 

 silky pubescent. Stipules small and brown. Flowers 1-3 in axils on 

 pedicels of 3 mm. long. Bracteoles dark-brown scarious, very small 

 and adnate to the calyx. Calyx silky, with a very short tube, upper 

 lobes much broader and longer than the lower." 



I have examined a piece of the type which the authorities of the 

 Berlin Museum of Botany kindly sent along, and I find the bracteoles 

 fixed well below the calyx. The plant comes between P. ohcordata 

 Bth., and P. rotundifolia, Bth., from which two species it differs in 

 its rigid spinescent branches, length of pedicels, size and indumentum 

 of leaves and shape of calyx. 



PULTENAEA SUBALPINA, (F. V. M.), DrUCe. 



(2nd. Suppl. Bot. Exch. Club Report, 1916, p. 643.) 



This is P. rosea of Mueller, who described the plant under the 

 name Burtonia suhalpina (Trans. Phil. Inst. Vic, i., p. 39, 1855), and 



