146 H. B. Williamson: 



ence of colour below. The description in the Fl. Aust. of 

 P. subumbellata, " shrub either low and erect, cr taller and strag- 

 ling, with branches virgate, rather slender, terete, pubescent when 

 young," includes M. & B.'s description of this plant, so that 

 the species seems to have been founded on the difference in leaves 

 only, a rather unwise proceeding, especially as some specimens 

 of P. subumbellata show leaves with both pages equally green. 

 Torrington, New England, N.S.W. (Cambage, 1907.) 



P. TENUIFOLIA, RBr. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 2086, Benth. Fl. Aust. ii., p. 139.) , 



A small diffuse shrub with villous branchlets, and leaves nar- 

 row-linear, or terete, 2 to 4 lines long, concave or channelled 

 above, generally straight and pointed, almost fascicular, and 

 invested with minute appressed hairs. 



Flowers are sessile, solitary, or two together at the ends of 

 the branchlets, and are surrounded by broad bifid scarious bracts, 

 concealing the calyx. Bracteoles are ovate, and are fixed under 

 the calyx, longer than the tube. The calyx is about two lines 

 long, with almost equal lobes, acuminate, and slightly longer 

 than the tube. In Port Lincoln specimens the lobes are invested 

 with long white hairs. 



S. coast of Vic, S.A., and W. Australia. 



Var. Glabra, Benth, almost glabrous. Wimmera Dist., Vic. 



P. RECURVIFOLIA, Sp. HOVa. 



Frutex erectus parvus,, ramis pubescentibus, foliis 3-4 mm., 

 longis angnstis recurvatis apicem versus latioribus margine 

 involutis, supra vix apertis infra lev-it cr carinatis, glabris 

 vel minutissime puberulis, stipulis acummatis latiusculis, floribus 

 panels minimis prope apicem ramulorum axillaribus, bracteis nnllis, 

 bracteolis ovatis calyce brevioribus infra cum affixis, calyce 2 mm. 

 longo glabro, lobis brevibus latisque minute ciliolatis superioribus 

 paululum latioribus, vexillo 5 mm. longo fusco, alis pallentibus, 

 ovario sericeo-v'xlloso, stylo subulato, legumine, J mm. longo, 2 

 mm. lato. 



This plant was included by Bentham under P. tenuifolia, RBr., 

 as var. recurvifolia. 



Its small recurved leaves, axillary flowers, and the absence 

 of bracts separate it well from that species. Its flowers also 



