Genus Pultenaea, 213 



, Pipe Head Waterworks, Hamilton, Vic, Collected by the writer, 

 11/1904. 



Pultenaea capifellata, Sieb. 



A species bearing a remarkable general resenxblance to* P. pycno- 

 .cephala, F.v.M., and variously placed with that species, or with 

 P. stricta, in which latter Beutham wrongly, included it. 



Its minute stipules and high-adnate bracteoles place it right 

 away from Mueller's species, although there is a specimen lalx41ed 

 by him " P. pycnocephala F.v.M." From P. stricta it can Ije 

 separated by its flower heads, solid and almost globular, and Very 

 persistent bracts, broadly, ovate, densely covered with silky hairs, 

 except at the margin, bifid, with a narrow median point. Calyx 

 lobes and bracteoles are setaceous. Leaves cuneate, slightly 

 pointed. The specimen, "Port Jackson, Sieb, n. 313," Fl. Aust., 

 p. 113, is this species, and not the plant figured by Sims, Bot. 

 Mag. Sieber's name should be retained for it. 



Braidwood District, Twofold Bay, N.S.W., and East Gippsland, 

 Vic. 



Pultenaea pycnocephala^ F. v. M. 



A' remarkable species, wuth broadly-ovate coriaceous leaves, silky 

 below, and with flowers in dense globular heads, covered with 

 imbricate, silky villous, persistent bracts. The bracteoles are long, 

 very silky, villous, and are fixed quite under the calyx. 



Bluff Mount, Poverty Point, Tenterfield, N.S.W. 



Pidtenaea retusa, Smith. 



A species with calyx and bracteoles like those of P. stricta, but 

 with shorter bracts, more falcate upper calyx lobes, and leaves 

 linear to cuneate, sometimes emarginate. 



Var. linophylla, Benth, with longer leaves and longer calyx. Port 

 .Jackson K 



Var. longifolia, F.v.M., with leaves up to H inches. 



Specimens from E. Gippsland, with cuneate leaves, almost bi- 

 lobed, 2 or 3 line« long. se?m to be included under the description 

 in Bentham. 



Specimens from Hazelbrook, N.S.W. , Hamilton, nnd from Two- 

 fold Bay, show leaves cuneate-oblonp: to obovate. 



Queensland, X'jw Soutli Wah's and Ea^^tern Victoria. 



