Genus Pultenaea. 147 



are much smaller, and the calyx lobes shorter than the tube. The 

 iracteoles, however, resemble those of P. tenuifolia. 



Its nearest affinity appears to be P. villosa from which it 

 ■differs in its narrow, recurved, leaves, and different shaped calyx, 

 which is more like that of P. hispidula, which, however, has 

 iflowers terminal in small clusters. 



Cape Nelson, near Portland, Vic. (Allitt.) 



P. echinula, Sieber. 

 (D.C., Prod, ii., 112; Benth., Fl. Aust. ii., 127.) 



Shrub with older branches denuded of leaves, and tuberculate 

 -or echinate with the remains of their petioles. Leaves 6-7 lines 

 long, crowded on the younger branches, much incurved, linear, 

 terete, channelled above, tuberculate, and, towards the inflores- 

 cence, invested with scattered long hairs. Stipules long-subulate. 

 Flowers in dense heads surrounded by crowded leaves, with few 

 bifid bracts with spreading subulate lobes. 



Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, short, broad at the base, 

 tapering to a sharp point, minutely ciliate. Calyx glabrous, 

 •minutely ciliate, lobes nearly equal, acuminate. Keel dark coloured. 

 Ovary glabrous, with a few long hairs at the summit. 



The National Herbarium contains a single specimen of the type 

 referred to in Benth., Fl. Aust., p. 127. " Sieb. n. 384. New 

 Holland." It does not appear to have been gathered since. 



P. divaricata, sp. nova. 



Frutex erectus fere glaber, foliis lineari-cylindricis confertis 

 supra canaliculatis tnberculatis mucronatis divaricatis incurvatis 

 strictis vel deflexis floralibus puberulis, stipulis subulatis, floribus 

 circiter 6 sessilibus in capitula terminalia congregatis, bractei's 

 breviier bifidis pubescentibus, bracteolis linearibiis carinatis dorso 

 paululum pubescentibus 2 mm. longls ad basin calycis affixis, 

 calyce 4 mm. longo pubescente, lobis obtusis inferioribus tuba 

 -aequilongis superioribus co paulo brevioribus, petalis omnibus 

 flavis, ovario sericeo-villoso, stylo subulato, legumine oblique ovato 

 j mm. longo, 4mm. lato, planiusculo pilis longis parce vestito. 



This plant, from the Blue Mts., N.S.W., which has passed as 

 P. echinula, Sieber, appears to be the plant mentioned by Bentham 

 — Fl. Aust. ii., 127 — in the note as R. Cunningham's specimens. 

 It is quite a distinct species, differing from P. echinula in having 



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