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PULTEN.EA* rosmarinifdlia 



Rosemary-leaved Pultenaa. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminosje Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 86.) 



PULTENMA.—Suprcl, vol. b.fol. 378. 



P. rosmarinifolia ; capitulis multi 

 Hnearibus mucronatis margine 



foliis 



in unam bifidam concretis petiolo longiorem. 



Frutex ramosus, sempervirens ; ramis teretibus, pubescentibus, murinis 



■a r>« •„ _•__• • _\ s*. • *^..l»« 7^,,.,,',-»*.« r^oltT^oe in tits mRP.l 



. - ..._ ft 



Flores Jutei, carina sanguined. 



Calyces intus rosei 



This pretty new species of an extensive New Holland 

 genus was found on the south, coast of New Holland by 

 Mr. Baxter, and was raised in the Clapton Nursery, where 

 our drawing was made last May, by favour of Messrs. Lowe 

 and Co. 



It is a greenhouse shrub, easily increased by cuttings. 

 From P. stipulacea it is easily known by the revolute 



gins of its leaves, and its much shorter bracte 



M 



Cunningham remarks to us, that P. mucronata of some few 

 Gardens, and of the Botanical Cabinet, is also closely allied 

 to it, but is known by the want of the numerous hairs that 

 clothe the stems and the under side of the leaves. 



J. L. 



L . * Named by Sir James Smith in honour of Dr. Richard Pulteneju a 

 biographer of Linmeus, and a respectable Botanist. His writings are said to 

 >ave '< contributed more than any work, except perhaps the works ot bt.l- 

 "ngfleet, to diffuse a taste for Linnean knowledge in this country. 



