Genus Pultev aea. 219 



Kangaroo I., Andrews. A specimen was sent to the Herbarium 

 in 1880 by Miss Brookets, Mt. Rugged to Victoria Springs, but 

 ^^as set aside by Mueller for determination later. 



Section COKLOPKYLLUM. 



This section includes those species with alternate leaves, flattened, 

 ■concave or terete. 



Pulffnaea fle^ilis, Smith. 



An almost glabrous shrub with flat, or slightly concave leaves, 

 glabrous calyx, with scarcely pointed lobes shorter than the tuVje, 

 flowers axillary on rather long pedicels, with lanceolate, pointed 

 bracteoles fixed on the tube at the base, and ovary glabrous with a 

 few long hairs at the top. 



Victoria, New^ South Wales. 



Specimens from Clarence River, Beckler, are labelled "P. flexilis 

 Tar. mucronata," p. 135, Fl. Aust. They exactly match specimens 

 irom Giggo Range, and the Dandenongs, Vic, since determined by 

 Muellei* as a variety of P. juniper ina. These, as well as specimens 

 from Pine Mount, N.E. District, Walter, having pubescent ovary, 

 and bracts and bracteoles of P. juniperina, must be referred to tliat 

 .species. 



Pulfenaea alfissima, F.v.M. 



A species which has been wrongly united with P. flexilis. from 

 which it differs in having its bracteoles ovate and free from the 

 •calyx, in which characters it agrees with P. obovata Benth., its 

 nearest afHnity. It has also its flowers in terminal umbel-like 

 racemes, not axillary as in P. flexilis, and its leaves are linear- 

 cuneate without points, and rarely over half-inch long. From P. 

 'Obovata it differs in having a much smaller calyx with shorter lol^es, 

 and leaves narrower. We should follow Bentham in keeping it a 

 -distinct species. 



New South Wales, Twofold Bay, and Upper Genoa River; prob- 

 ably occurs in East Gippsland. 



Pulfenaea ohovafn, Benth. 



A New South Wales species, like P. flexilis, but with broad-ovate 

 or broadly-cuneate leaves, two or three lines long, on rather long 

 petioles, concave, light green above. Calyx, with lobes longer 



