1694 
* PULTEN/EA fléxilis. 
Shining-leaved Pultenea. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 87.) a 
PULTENÆA. Supra, vol. 5, fol. 378. 
P. flexilis ; glaberrima, floribus axillaribus, foliis oblongo-linearibus mucronatis 
planis. R. Brown in Hort. Kew. vol. 3, p. 19. 
P. flexilis. Smith in Linn. Trans. 9. 248. De Candolle Prodr, 2. 111. 
Dillwynia teucrioides. Sieber plant. exs. n. holl. No. 423. 
Rami minutissimó pubescentes, subangulati. Folia obovato-oblonga, 
angusta, mucronulata, plana, viridia, nitida, glaberrima ; stipulis setaceis, 
fuscis, petiolo paulo longioribus. Flores solitarii, axillares, brevipedunculati. 
Calyx glaberrimus, bibracteatus, 5-dentatus ; dentibus brevibus subaequalibus. 
We are indebted to Mr. Cunningham for the knowledge 
of this being the true P. flexilis of Smith and the Hortus 
Kewensis, with which an entirely different plant, with glaucous 
leaves and hairy calyxes, has been confounded by Mr. Sweet. 
Mr. Cunningham concludes it must also be P. flexilis of 
Mr. De Candolle, because that Botanist quotes as a synonym, 
Dillwynia teucrioides of Sieber, the identity of which with the 
present plant is proved by the comparison of authentic speci- 
mens. The statement made by Mr. De Candolle, that his plant 
has no bracts, may possibly be accounted for upon the suppo- 
sition that the specimens he described were imperfect. 
Mr. Cunningham further adds that the species is “ closely 
allied to P. Polygalfolia of Rudge, but the calyx of that species 
1s Interspersed with villous hairs; its leaves are smaller ; and 
it is altogether a more abundant flowering plant. P. euchila 
. C. has also smaller cuneated leaves, and a remarkable 
* See fol, 1584. 
