1:38 H. B. Williamson; 



lower lobes narrower and longer than the tube, the upper ones- 

 being broad and united almost to a single emarginate lobe. 



Bracteoles are 'linear, silky, and fixed below the calyx, and the 

 style is short, thick and hooked. 



" Drummond's 5th Coll. n. 66." W.A.. 



Apparently rarel) gathered. 



P. NEUROCALYX, TurCZ. 



(Bull, Mosc, i., 281). 



A W.A. shrub somewhat like P. subambellata in foliage,., 

 habit and absence of stipules, but at once known by its bracteoles. 

 and calyx lobes, which are striate with scarious ciliate margins. 

 The bracteoles are under the calyx, ovate-oblong, three nerved. 

 Calyx lobes are almost equal, broad, blunt, and 3 to 5 nerved. 

 The style is short, thick, and hooked. The plant appears to be 

 one of the connecting links between Pultenaca and Phyllota*. 

 Examination of ripe seeds may show that it should be placed, 

 under the latter genus. 



Oldfield, Mt. Barren, Robertson's Brook, W.A. 



P. juniperina. Labitt. 

 (PL Nov. Holl., i., 102). 



A plant with pungent leaves varying much in width, and flowers 

 two or three together towards the ends of the branches, with 

 lanceolate bracteoles inserted under the calyx. Specimens from 

 Tasmania and the Grampians have narrow spreading leaves,, 

 concave or conduplicate, with a wide base, and pedicels about 

 a line long with a prominence at the base. 



Var. latifolia, Benth. (P. cor data, Graham)', a form with, 

 broad leaves almost cordate at the base, tapering to a pungent 

 point, darker green below with a prominent midrib. 



R. Tamar, Tas. 



P. juniperina, var. planifolia, var. nova. 



Variat foliis longiorbus latioribusque planis vel paululum 

 concavis. 



This form has leaves from ^ inch to 1 inch long, lanceolate- 

 oblong to oblong, from slightly incurved at the margin to quitet 



