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PULTENiEA retusa. 

 Obtuse-leaved PuUmeea. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNM, 



Nat. ord. Leguminos^:. Jussieu gen. 345. Dm VI. Papjlionaceje. 



Browt gen. rem. in Flind. voy* 2. 552. 



# PtfLTENJEA. CaL 5-fidus, labiisproportionatis, bibracteatus (brac- 

 teis saepiiis ipso tubo insidentibus). Cor. papiHonacea. Germ, sessile, di- 

 epermum. Stylus subulatus, adscendens. Stig. simplex. Stropkiola eerai- 

 nis lobis posticis incisis. Brown in Hort. Ketv. ed. 2. 3. 17. 



P. retusa, capitulis terminaJibue, foliis linearibus retusis muticis planie 

 glabris, bracteis calyce pauld longioribua. Brown in Hort. Kexv. ed. 2* 

 3. 18. 



Pultensea retusa. Smith in ann. of hot. 1. 502; et in trans, linn.soc. 9. 247. 



Willd.enum. 1,4*38. 



Fruticulus erectus, strictiusculus, rami's viilosis, poliosis, Jbliorum decursH 

 angulatis, ramulosis 9 ramulis summitate et medio ramorum laxius sparsique 

 congregatis, axillaribus, ascendentibus f apice Jloriferis, totis appresse Jbltosis. 

 Foh sparsa, rigida, crassittscula, obscure viridia, glabra, cuneatO'linearia, 

 retusa, multca, subsemuncialia $ petioli hreves, teretes, rvgulosi: stipute 2 

 scarioso+membranacete^fusco-rubenteS) petiolo (cui intus utrtnque oppresses J 

 breviores, subulate. Fiores capitati: c*yit\}[&paud~($ubqxdnque) -flora, sub' 

 sessilia, parum exsuperantia folia involucralia : geramarum floralium squamas 

 persistences, plures, parvule, rigide, sphacelate, ustulato'Spadicee, oblato- 

 ovate, concave, extus subsericea, pedicellis breviores, imbricato-ambientes. 

 Pedicelli crassi, sericet, erecti, breviores calyce. Cal. duplo brevior corolla, 

 tubulosus, membranosus, pallidus, sericeus> equabiliter 5-dentatus, dentibus 

 acuminatis triplo circh brevioribus tubo. Bracteae medio tubi calycini utrinque 

 insert*?, lanceolato-lineares, spadicee, calyce pauld aliiores, $ericeo<iUate. 

 Cor.Jlava, glabra, f partem uncie parum excedens. 



A genus belonging to the decandrous division of the 

 Papilionaceous plants of New South Wales, the large pro- 

 portion of which, in relation to the diadelphous division of 

 the same, forms a striking anomaly in the vegetation of those 



regions* 



The species was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1789; 

 but has not been figured in any work we are acquainted 

 with. The drawing was taken from a sample remitted in 

 April by Mr. Herbert from his collection at Spofforth ; where 

 it is cultivated in the greenhouse. 



A small upright shrub: branches villous, leafy, angular; 

 branchlets axillary, upright, flowerbearing at the end. 



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