Pultencea.] 
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the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Petals not much longer than the calyx- 
lobes, the keel dark-coloured. Ovary very silky-villous, tapering into the subulate 
style. Pod not seen. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, A. Cunningham , , F. v. Mueller ; Burnett River, F. v. Mueller and others. 
Flowering in July. 
6. P. paleacea (scaly), Willd. Spec. PI. ii. 506 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 115. 
A shrub with slender diffuse or divaricate branches, silky-pubescent when young. 
Leaves linear, with fine straight or recurved points and revolute margins, £ to fin. 
long, glabrous above, pale and usually silky-hairy underneath. Stipules appressed, 
often 2 lines long. Flowers in dense but not large terminal heads, sessile within 
the last leaves. Bracts imbricate, glabrous, scarcely ciliate, completely covering 
the calyxes, the inner ones 8 to 4 lines long. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx- 
tube, concave, carinate. Calyx silky-hairy, about 3 lines long, the lobes lanceo- 
late, much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. 
Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals shorter. Ovary villous, 
gradually tapering into a long style. Pod compressed, silky, longer than the 
calyx, and tapering into the long persistent silky base of the style. — Sm. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 246; DC. Prod. ii. 112; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 291. 
Hab.: Southern Queensland. 
7. P. Hartmannii (after C. H. Hartmann), F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 166. A 
pubescent shrub. Leaves often clustered, 2 to 5 lines long, obovate, a little 
cuneate, blunt, the margins slightly recurved, herbaceous-chartaceous, pale 
beneath, the petioles rather long on the upper part of the branches. Stipules 
about 1 line long. Flowers in terminal heads of few flowers. Bracteoles about 
1 line long, inserted a little above the base of the calyx. Calyx sessile, scarcely 
3 lines long, villous, the tube and lips of about an equal length, the two superior 
ones a little broader and shorter. Standard with claw about 5 lines ; keel petals 
dark purple. Ovary sessile, silky. Style scarcely 3 lines long, pilose. — F. v. M., l.c. 
Hab.: Rockhampton, C. H. Hartmann (F. v. M.) 
8. P. microphylla (small leaves), Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 112 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 117. A dwarf, diffuse, much-branched shrub, the branches slender, 
hoary silky-pubescent or villous. Leaves linear-cuneate, usually narrow and 3 to 
4 lines long, truncate or retuse, with a recurved point and revolute margins ; 
sometimes longer and flatter, rounded at the end, with a recurved point, but 
never exceeding ^in., usually glabrous above and hoary tomentose underneath, 
rarely softly villous when young. Stipules very small spreading or recurved. 
Flowers in the upper axils on very short pedicels, or 2 or 3 together at the ends 
of the short brancblets. Bracts very small or none besides the stipules of the 
floral leaves. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube, small, linear. Calyx 
scarcely 2 lines long, hoary or silky-villous, the lobes nearly as long as the tube, 
the 2 upper ones broad and united above the middle. Standard about twice as 
long as the calyx ; lower petals shorter. Ovary villous. Pod broadly and 
obliquely ovate, not acuminate, about 3 lines long. — P. stenopliylla , A. Cunn. in 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 124; P. uncinata, A. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. 
ii. 88. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Fraser ; since by many collectors from many parts of southern 
Queensland. 
Var. cuneata. Leaves broadly cuneate-truncate, 3 to 4 lines long. — P. cuneata, Benth. in Ann. 
Wien. Mus. ii. 83. — To this belong some of the Queensland specimens from Stanthorpe, towards 
the border of N. S. Wales. 
9. P. ternata (leaves in threes), F. v. M. Frarjm. i. 8, and iv. 21 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. ii. 122. An erect, usually glabrous, often glaucous shrub, the branches 
terete. Leaves all in whorls of three, in the original form broadly rhomboidal, 
