134 H. B. Williamson : 



agree with P. humilis in having the long thickened reddish style 

 and glabrous ovary with tuft of hairs. 



Benalla, N. E. Sale, E. Victoria. Creswick and Grampians, 

 Victoria. 



P. subspicata, Benth. 



(Fl., Aust:, ii., 137). 



A small shrub with the appearance of P. vestita, and the nar- 

 row leaved form of P. humilis, having leaves up to half-inch, nar- 

 row-lanceolate, concave, granular-rough, and slightly hairy. The 

 calyx has narrow subulate lobes, rather longer than the tube. It 

 is easily distinguished from P. humilis by its broad bracteoles 

 with a central point fixed under the calyx tube; and from P.. 

 plumosa by its flowers being axillary, not in terminal heads. 



L. George, and Braidwood dist., N. S. W. There is a specimen 

 collected in Gippsland, Vict., by Howitt. 



P. villifera, Sieb. 

 (D.C. Prod, ii., 111). 



This species has been confused with P. humilis, and so has- 

 been wrongly recorded for Victoria. In P. villifera the calyx is 

 not more than 3 lines long, usually 2 lines, and the bracteoles 

 are scarious, ovate-lanceolate, while in P. humilis, the calyx is 

 4 to 5 lines long, with a very short tube, and the bracteoles 

 are very narrow, and as long as the calyx lobes. 



The leaves of P. villifera are prominently veined beneath, 

 with marginal veins also, and have longer petioles, especially 

 the upper ones. 



Port Lincoln, Encounter Bay, Onkaparinga, S.A. Jervis Bay,. 

 N.S.W. 



P. involucrata, Benth. 



(Fl. Aust. ii., 138). 



This may be confounded with P. villifera which it resembles 

 in general aspect, but it may be easily separated by its singly 

 terminal flowers, and remarkably small calyx, scarcely more than 

 1 line, which is quite concealed by the broad bracteoles. The 

 leaves are scarcely petiolate, and have no marginal vein. 



Mt. Lofty, S.A. 



