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normal plant. With the broadening of the leaves the obscure 

 marginal veins of P. ferruginea become more distinct, and further 

 f r om the margin, giving the leaves a tri-nerved character. The 

 leaves are obovate-cuneate, not inclining to oblong as shown 

 in the plate accompanying the description, and the bracteoles 

 are fixed at the base of the calyx tube, not high adnate as the 

 plate shows. 



It is a much more robust and showy plant than the normal 

 P. ferruginea, and grows, according to Mr. H. Deane, only on 

 the sandstone of the Hawkesbury series. Intermediates occur, 

 however, at Guise Head, (R. Brown), Berowa and other places. 



Peats' Ferry (H. Deane) ; Gosford (R. T. Baker). 



P. hispidula, RBr. 

 (Benth., Fl. Aust., ii., 133.) 



In habit resembling P. villosa, but with much smaller nowers 

 which are sessile in small terminal heads, instead of being axillary 

 and solitary. The bracteoles also are quite different, oval-oblong. 

 The calyx is scarcely more than a line long, with very short 

 lobes, and the ovary is villous, instead of being hairy only at 

 the top. Port Jackson, N.S.W. 



Specimens from Gembrook, Grampians and other parts of 

 Victoria, hitherto passing under P. villosa must be referred to 

 this species. 



P. parviflora, Sieber. 



(D.C. Prod, ii., 111.) 



This is a form very near to P. villosa, differing only in its 

 almost sessile flowers, which are rather crowded in the upper 

 axils, and its smaller leaves almost glabrous. 



The leaves are more cuneate than those of P. villosa, and in 

 the South Creek specimens, N.S.W. (J. H. Maiden), are slightly 

 wotched at the summit. Calyx, bracteoles, and ovary as in 

 P. villosa. 



The form which it most closely approaches is Rudge's P. poly- 

 galifolia, which Bentham rightly included under P. villosa, and 

 from which I can separate it only by the size and shape of its 

 leaves. It may yet have to be reduced to a var. of P. villosa. 



C. Byron, Port Jackson, South Ck. N.S.W. ; Ipswich, Q. 



It does not occur in Victoria. 



