Genus Pultenaea. 137 



P. radiata, sp. nova. 



Fruticulus erectus parvus, ramulis, radiatis pubescentibus, 



Joliis lineari-Cylindricis supra canaliculatis tuberculatis incurvatis 



J8-iomm. longis patenti-hispidis, stipulis subulatis, floribus sessi- 



Ubus in capitula terminalia confertis, bracteis paucis lato-ovatis 



.ciliolatis, bracteolis bracteis similibus calycem ofhnino cingentibus 



eoque fere acquilongis infra basin calycis insertis, calyce glabro 



margin e ciliato / mm. longo, lobis acuminatis inferioribus tubum 



aequantibus superioribus conjunctis usque supra medium, vexillo 



Ms longiore quam calyx; ovario scriceo-villoso apice barbato stylo 



.brevi (yix 3mm. longo) uncinato; legumine non viso. 



This plant resembles P. ericifolia and P. verruculosa, var. 

 pilosa, in general aspect. 



1. — P. ericifolia has very distinctive flowers, having very long 

 ■bracts with a long central ciliate lobe, and linear bracteoles as 

 long as the calyx lobes, both the latter being ciliate with long 

 hairs. 



2. — P. verruculosa has bracts few, short, entire, or shortly two 

 lobed, and bracteoles only about 2 lines long, and linear, hairy, 

 trigonous leaves. 



3. — This species has very broad bracts and bracteoles, the 

 latter completely surrounding the calyx, longer than the tube, 

 and the upper calyx lobes are much connected, with their lobes 

 -scarcely divergent. The hooked style is shorter than that of 

 P. verruculosa, var. pilosa, being scarcely more than a line in 

 length, with the hairs of the ovary reaching almost to the top. 



Its nearest affinity appears to be P. Bauerleni, F.v.M., a N.S.W. 

 species which has a calyx of the same size and shape, and brac- 

 teoles also large, but somewhat narrower, larger and broader 

 stipules, longer, thicker, mucronate, long-petiolate leaves, granular 

 without hairs, and a silky ovary tapering to a long subulate style. 

 The ovary of this species is silky, with long hairs reaching almost 

 rto the top of the very short hooked style. 



In National Herbarium, Vic, from Busselton, W.A., 1870 

 A. and E. Pries, among specimens of P. verruculosa, var. pilosa. 



P. adunca j Turcz. 



(Bull. Mosc, i„ 79). 



A species with terete leaves scarcely J inch long, with often a 

 ^small recurved point. The calyx is uniformly silky and has the 



