Genus Pultenaea. 14 If 



heads, at first surrounded with broad bracts which soon drop 

 off, and then the pedicels appear often 2 to 3 lines long and turn 

 downwards. Bracteoles are linear-lanceolate, fixed on the calyx 

 tube, are provided with broad stipular lobes, and are inclined to- 

 be leafy. The calyx and pedicels are silky pubescent. 

 Grampians, Wimmera, Vic. 



Var. procumbens, F.v.M. 



A MS. name, under which Mueller placed the S.A. specimens. 

 Leaves broad, almost flat in some specimens, cuneate, recurved 

 at the end in others. 



Lighter green above with a distinct midrib below. Some 

 specimens show less pubescence, and more slender calyx lobes, 

 and bracteoles. 



Onkaparinga, Clarendon, S.A. 



Var. pilosa, var. nova. 



Variat floribus confertioribus, pedunculis brevioribus, calyce- 

 valde vestito. 



Specimens from " N.W. of Nhill," Vic, (D'Alton) are in 

 an early stage, and show bracts rather larger than the normal. 

 The calyx and bracteoles are invested with long silky hairs. 



To this variety also must be referred specimens from Mt. 

 Mclvor, (Mueller), and Bendigo, (Paton), which have been 

 passing under P. tenuifolia. 



Their flowers in terminal heads, their large calyx, and leafy 

 stipular bracteoles separate them from that species. 



From the normal they differ in having flowers often more 

 crowded on short branchlets. The pedicels do not appear, to** 

 lengthen much, and the calyx is somewhat larger, and is in- 

 vested with long hairs. 



Northern part of Victoria. 



P. villosa, Willd. (Spec. PL, ii., 507). 



Under this name a number of very divergent forms have been 

 included, which can scarcely be admitted even as varieties. 



I have taken Sieber's specimens, " n. 421," and " Fl. Mixt.. 

 518," as typical, agreeing with Bentham's description. Shrub* 

 pubescent, or villous, rust coloured when dry. Leaves usually 

 oblong, or somewhat cuneate, concave, or with incurved margins,. 



