106 H. B. WilUanison: 



afterwards removed it to the genus Pultetiaea, giving it the appro- 

 priate and euphonious species name rosea, which, however, was cor- 

 rected by Druce as above, in accordance with the Vienna Rules. 



PULTENAEA IIIBHERTIOIDES, Hooker, f. 



(Fl. Tasm. i., 89, 1860.) 



A shrub with branches and leaves of P. mollis, Lindl., and in- 

 florescence very similar, but differing from that species in having 

 imbricate bifid bracts, the inner ones over two lines long, and usually 

 striate. The bracteoles also, are different, being at least as long as 

 the calyx, and fixed distinctly under the tube, not upon it. The calyx 

 lobes are not so short, being as long as the tube, and acute or acuminate. 

 From P. viscosa it differs in having narrower terete leaves, larger 

 bracts, etc. 



Vic: Buffalo Mts., Mueller, Mt. Hotham, and other parts of the 

 Alps. N.S.W. : Aust. Alps. Tas.: Between Launceston and George 

 Town. 



Var. conferta. Bth. 



Pedicels short, bracts and bracteoles smaller. " Australia felix," 

 Mueller. 



I have not seen Mueller's specimens, but specimens from Cobden,. 

 S.W. Vic. (Coll?), I have determined as this variety. 



PULTENAEA MOLLIS, Lindl. 



(Mitchell's Three Expeditions ii., 260, 1838.) 



A shrub with branches clothed with soft hairs, and having terete 

 or narrow-linear leaves ^ to 1 in. long, which are also covered with 

 soft, appressed hairs. . Flowers are in terminal heads, each on a 

 pedicel of a line long. The calyx lobes are broad, shorter than the 

 tube, and all nearly equal. Bracts are short, and few besides the 

 broad bract-like stipules of the floral leaves. Bracteoles are lanceo- 

 late, keeled, and set on the base of the calyx tube, from one-half to 

 nearly the length of the calyx, thin, shining or viscid, and ciliate 

 at the edges. 



Vic: Mt. William and Wannon River, Grampians. 



Specimens from Mt. Macedon and the Dandenong Ranges differ 

 from the type in having almost glabrous leaves, smaller and less 

 hairy calyx with very short lobes, and with broad and very short 

 bracteoles. 



PuLTEXAEA VISCOSA, R. Brown. 

 (Bth. Fl. Aust., ii., 127. 1864.) 

 A shrub to 4 ft. resembling P. mollis, but with leaves constantly 

 open on the upper side, and sometimes nearly flat, with midrib show- 

 ing distinctly both above and below. The flowers are more crowded 

 in the heads than those of P. mollis, and the pedicels are shorter.. 

 It differs also from P. mollis in having larger bracts and bracteoles, 

 which latter are fixed under the calyx, and are not ciliate. No sped- 



