142 H. B. Williamson: 



tubercular or hirsute underneath. Flowers solitary in each axil, 

 but sometimes forming short terminal leafy racemes. Pedicels 

 short and slender. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx tube near 

 its base, linear, with often one or two setae in their axil. Calyx 

 1J to above 2 lines long, lobes acuminate, longer than the tube, 

 the two upper ones broad, falcate, united to the middle, lower ones 

 narrow. Smith, in Trans., Linn., Soc. 9, 248, says, " A dense 

 bushy shrub, with numerous short leafy branches, and copious, 

 axillary solitary flowers. The appendages (bracteoles) grow from 

 towards the base of the calyx, and are longer than the tubular 

 part, having a more leafy appearance than in any other species 

 of Pultenaca." 



Hobart, Tasmania; Port Jackson district to South Queensland. 

 The Victorian forms will be dealt with later. 



P. FERRUGINEA, Rudge. 



(Trans. Linn. Soc. xi., 300, t. 23; D.C. Prod, ii., 111.) 



Bentham, p. 134, included this under P. villosa as var. lati folia. 

 The leaves are obovate and vary from 2 to 3 lines in Blue 

 Mountain specimens, to 4-5 lines in specimens from the seaboard. 

 This character, together with its large long appressed stipules 

 like those of P. cllipitica, its large flowers and peculiar bracteoles, 

 separate it well from P. villosa. The calyx is very large, often 

 5 lines long, its upper lobes being falcate, joined below the 

 middle, and the lower ones are very narrow, much longer than 

 the tube. Bracteoles are lanceolate, almost as long as the 

 calyx lobes, fixed at the base of the tube, and provided with 

 broad scarious stipules, both calyx and bracteoles being invested 

 with long soft hairs. Flowers are axillary, crowded in terminal 

 and sub-terminal leafy racemes. The ovary is glabrous except 

 for a tuft of long white hairs on the summit. The style is long 

 and distinctly compressed. 



Blue Mts., Port Jackson, Guise Head, etc., N.S.W., " n. 420 

 Sieber," in Nat. Herb., Melb. 



P. ferruginea, Rudge, var. Deanei. 



(P. Deanei, R. T. Baker, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., xxii., 438, 



189/.) 



This plant is simply a large form of P. ferruginea, having 

 rather larger leaves, up to 6 lines long, scarcely as hairy as the 



