144 H. B. Williamson 



P. graveolens, Tate. 

 (Trans, Roy. Soc, S.A., vii., p. 68.) 



A species with small oblong to linear leaves, and axillary- 

 flowers. Mueller evidently placed it as a form of P. villosa, but 

 it can be separated from that species by its smaller calyx, peculiar 

 hyaline and viscid stipules, and bracteoles, and its peculiar odour, 

 which is described by Tate as like that of " spirit contaminated 

 with animal matter." To some it has a rich aromatic odour, some 

 times resembling that of cream cheese. It comes between 

 P. villosa and P. hispidula, and is distinguished from the latter 

 in having axillary flowers, and very small bracteoles. 



Uraidla, Mt. Lofty, S.A. ; Meredith, Vic, (S. Johnson). 



P. vrolandi, Maiden. 

 (Vic. Nat. Vol. 22, p. 98.) 



Resembling in general aspect some forms of P. villolsa, but 

 easily distinguished by its cup-shaped, involucre-like, viscid brac- 

 teoles, fixed under and quite surrounding the calyx, which has 

 short and broad lobes. In the Nat. Herb., Melb., are specimens 

 of this plant from Pine Mt., N.E. Vic. (C. Walter, 1891), the 

 leaves of which are 5 lines long. 



Strathbogie, Vic, Nov. 1904 (A. W. Vroland). 



P. trifida, J. M. Black. 

 (Proc Roy. Soc, S.A., xxxiii., 224, 1909.) 



A S.A. species with small, concave, ovate, petiolate leaves, end- 

 ing in a short bristle point. The calyx is small with almost equal 

 lobes. It has a general resemblance to P. ferruginea, but the- 

 flowers are very different, having lobes of the calyx almost equal 

 and subulate, and its trifid bracteoles serve to easily distinguish 

 it from all its co-geners. 



The bracteoles are distinctly trifid, the outer lobes not being' 

 acceptable as stipules, as in the case of P. plumosa, P. ferruginea r 

 and P. laxi flora. 



Snug Cove, and Cape Borda (Griffiths, 1908). Cygnet R. r 

 (1886, O. Tepper, Vic. Nat. Herb.). 



