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136 Alfred J. Ewart:

The following description tallies in all essentials with the
original one, but includes the other species mentioned. P.
stricta, Sims. An erect spreading or somewhat decumbent shrub
of 1 to 3 feet; the slender young branches minutely hoary or
more or less silky-pubescent, sometimes somewhat angular and
becoming glabrous when old. Leaves varying greatly in shape
and size, sometimes on the same plant, from about 3 to 12 mm
long, ovate, oblong, cuneate or linear, obtuse or with a small
straight or recurved point, nearly flat, but with the margin
usually slightly recurved, shining and glabrous above, paler and
hairy or silky pubescent beneath, especially when young. Mid-rib
prominent, stipules small, narrow or lanceolate, and appressed,
the narrower stipules often spreading. Flowers very
shortly stalked, usually in small terminal heads of 2 to 8, but
sometimes laterally arranged, and then usually axillary. Bracts
imbricate, the outer ones small, the inner ones, when present,
larger, 3 or 4 mm. long and either entire, bilobed, or with a
hairy point between the two apical lobes, varying in these respects
in the same head. Bracteoles lanceolate or nearly linear,
usually about 3 mm. long, and more or less hairy on the back,
inserted on the calyx tube, usually near its base. Calyx about
4 mm., pubescent or silky villous the three lower lobes pointed
—lanceolate, about as long as the tube, the two upper lobes
broader, usualy more or less falcate and united to about the
middle. Standard twice as long as the calyx, the wings and keel
a little shorter than the standard, the keel deeply coloured, the
ovary villous, the style filiform, but slightly thickened towards
the base, where a few scattered hairs may be seen. Pod obliquely
or almost triangular, ovate, more or less flattened and hairy, or
silky, pubescent, usually 4 to 5 mm., long and projecting beyond
the calyx.

Variety MAIDENI (PULTENAEA MAIDENI, Reader).

The stipules more lanceolate, the inner bracts usually hairy
on the back, as well as the edges and tip, and slightly shorter.
The "trifid" or bilobed apex of some of the inner bracts is evidence
of their stipular character, and is not peculiar to this
variety, which is very close to the type form.