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The stamens are quite free in Pultencea Cambayei, therefore 

 it should be placed with Pultencea in spite of the absence 

 of the stipules. If the seeds turn out to be strophiolate, 

 its position in the genus Pultencea is confirmed; but even if 

 the seeds should turn out to be without a strophiole, it might be 

 placed with equal reasons with Pultencea as with Phyllota. The 

 two genera pass into each other, and our new species is more or 

 less a connecting link. Its nearest natural affinity seems to be 

 with P. subumbellata Hook., which has the same inflorescence, 

 similar flowers and no stipules, but has different leaves and a 

 different habit. According to Bentham's classification in the 

 ' Flora Australiensis,' in which more stress is laid on the shape 

 of the leaves, it should be placed next to P. echinula Sieb., from 

 which it is readily distinguished by the smooth leaves without 

 stipules. It is also allied to the Tasmanian P. diffusa Hook, f., 

 which F. v. Mueller removed to Phyllota in spite of the free 

 stamens; but our species has a terminal inflorescence, and P. 

 diffusa has the flowers in the axils of the upper leaves as usual 

 in Phyllota. In spite of its various affinities, P. Cambagei is a 

 well-marked species, impossible to unite with any described 

 species, either of Pultencea or Phyllota. 



Pultencea cinerascens Maiden and Betche, these Proceedings, 

 xxx. 361(1905). 



Narrabri (J. L. Boorman; August, 1907). 



The species was described by us two years ago, from specimens 

 collected at Warialda and Coolotai(25 miles to the north), on the 

 other side of the Nandewar Ranges from Narrabri. 



In addition to this new locality, we have to record two other 

 Pultenseas collected by Mr. R. H. Cambage (Gilgandra, October, 

 1904; and Scone, August, 1907) which we can regard only as 

 connecting links between P. cinerascens and P. microphylla Sieb. 

 The typical forms of the two species are so distinct that nobody 

 would think of uniting them; but the difference is chiefly in habit 

 and leaves, with hardly a marked difference in the flowers and 





