38 n. Karel Comin: 



fícuti, circa lo mm longi; vexillum calyce duplo longius, 

 profunde cordato-emarginatura; lamina longitudine fere duplo 

 latior, ungue sua manifeste lonaior; alae vexillo tantum paulo 

 breviores obtusissimae; carina alis multo brevior; ovarium 

 basi angustata indistincte stipi tatům, tantum apiee ciliatum, 

 caeterum glabrum, biovulatum. 



W. A.: Warrunup Hill, Stirliug Range, leg. Capt. A. A. 

 Dorrien-Smith. 



This species has no close relative in the genus and in- 

 deed even its belonging to the genus is somewhat doubtful. 

 It occupies an intermediate position between Billwynia and 

 Pultenaea and so strengiiten the opinion pronounced by Diels 

 (1. c. 260) that the separation of Dillwynia from Pultenaea 

 is unnatural. In špite of my efforts I could not find a na- 

 tural position in an}^ of the genera grouped around Pultenaea 

 for the above described plant, which with its hábit recalls 

 somewhat the western-australian Eutaxía parvifolia Benth. 

 The genus Eutaxía is excluded on account of its opposite 

 leaves, the genus Latrohea on account of its equal calyx- 

 teeths and the absence of bracteoles. There remains the choico 

 betweon Billwynia and Pultenaea. The absolute absence of 

 stipules points to the first genus, while the persistent bra- 

 cteoles (prophylla) on the pedicels close under the calyx 

 point to the second. The species is therefore a kind of trans- 

 ition between the two genera and besides remarkable for 

 its very long lower calyx-lobes. The genus Phyllota which 

 contains species similar in hábit to Dillwynia must be ex- 

 cluded on account of its involute leaves. The filaments of 

 the new species are entirely free and not enlarged. 



16. Bossiaea Vent. 



1. B. eriocarpa Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 36 (1837), 

 Meissn. in PÍ. Preiss. I. 83 (1844—45), Benth. F1. Austr. II. 

 159(1864), F. v. MuELL. Fragm. Ví. 45 (1875), First Census 

 37 (1882), Sec. Census 65 (1889), Diels u. Pritzel in Engl. 

 Bot. Jahrb. XXXV. 262 (1904). 



B. ovalifolia Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 21 (1839). 



B. Endlicheri Meissn. in PÍ. Preiss. I. 83 (1844—45). 



B. nervosa Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. XIII. 31 (1885). 



