Genus Pultenaea. 139* 



flat, partly rusty-red below, the prominent midrib below being 

 prolonged into a straight pungent point. Flowers are usually 

 in twos at the ends of very short branchlets, appearing almost 

 axillary. 



This is the plant mentioned by Bentham, p. 135, " Clarence 

 River, Beckler," as var. mucronata of P. flexilis, but it differs 

 from P. flexilis in having bracteoles inserted under the calyx, not 

 upon it, and having a villous ovary and subulate stipules. Beckler's 

 specimens exactly match those from Gibbo Ra. Vic, determined 

 by Mueller as P. jiiniperina. Specimens from Pine Mt., N.E. 

 Victoria (C, French, jnr.), having flat leaves up to 1 inch long 

 must be referred to P. jiiniperina for the reasons just stated. 



Dandenong Ra., N.E. Victoria, and N.S.W. 



P. rigida, R.Br. 

 (Benth., Fl. Aust. ii., 130). 



A species very close to P. jiiniperina. Bentham gives for it, 

 " Leaves lanceolate, concave or conduplicate, flowers distinctly 

 pedicellate," but the Grampians specimens of P. jiiniperina also 

 possess these characters. 



If we admit the validity of the species, we must do so on the 

 following grounds. Leaves conduplicate, very rigid, sessile,., 

 flowers dark red, on rather longer pedicels, and pod ovoid, not 

 oblique-ovate, shorter than that of P. jiiniperina. I have not seen 

 the pod, or the Memory Cove specimens. 



The leaves show sometimes a tendency to reticulate venation 

 as in P. aciphylla, and they have not the distinct yellowish 

 petioles with the protuberance at the base. 



Memory Cove, (R. Brown) ; Kangaroo L, (O. Tepper), S.A. 



P. acerosa, R.Br. 

 (Benth., Fl. Aust., ii., 131). 



A species with terete or trigonous leaves, channelled above, 

 rigid, pungent short-pointed, slightly recurved, divaricate on the 

 lower branches, and nearly \ inch long. Flowers are dark 

 coloured, crowded, surrounded by bifid, subulate bracts, and 

 have oblong bracteoles with subulate points. 



Coast of S. Australia. 



