Genus Pidtenaea. 217 



thickened or sli^^ditly recurved iimrgius, with mid-rib scarcely 

 prominent below, line pointed. The calyx has equal lobes, and 

 the bracteoles are free from the calyx. It belongs to section Empul- 

 t<?naea, near P. Drummondii. 

 Narro«2:in Exp, Farm, Stoward. 



PuUenaea scahra, K.Br. 



Three very divergent forms have been united by Bentham iu 

 this species : — 



(a) R. Brown's P. scabra, from the Blue Mountains (Sieb, n, 



286), with narrow-cuneate, truncate leaves, with a fine 

 seta terminating the mid-rib, and with setaceous, 

 spreadin<j: stipules, sometimes .*] lines long. 



(b) Lindley's P. montana — P. scabra var. montana Bth. — the 



common Victorian form, with minute stipules, and 

 leaves obcordate or obvate, with no point, often with 

 much recurved margins. 



(c) R. Brown's P. biloba — P. scabra var. biloba, Bth. — with 



leaves dilated and two'lobed, with a short recurved 



point. 



Brown's scabra and Lindley's plant are very distinct, but as 



there is no marked difference in the flowers they may be kept under 



P. scabra, especially as the varying forms of the var. biloba present 



graduated intermediates. 



Section ACTPftYLLUM. 

 This section — 3 species — is confined to Western Australia, and is 

 distinguished by peculiar transversely reticulate leaves. 



Pultriiaea aciphylla^ Benth — (P. recticulata Bth.) — with leaves 

 ovate to linear-lanceolate, pungent. Pultenaea aspalathotdes, Meiss, 

 with leaves narrower than those of P. aciphylla, with a smaller 

 calyx, larger bracteoles, and flowers crowded round with leaves. 



Pultenaea ochreata^ Meiss, distinguished from the two former 

 by having shorter and broader leaves, with no point, and nearly 

 orbicular hi-acteoles. 



Section EUCHILUS. 

 This section contains those species which have ternate or opposite 

 lea vies. 



Pultenaea ohcordata, Benth. 



A West Australian s^pecies, witli obcordate, ternate, or opposite 

 leaves, and a remarkable calyx, with its upper IoIk?^ almost orbicu- 

 lar, and its lower lobes lineai- and much shorter. 



