Tab. 6941. 

 PULTEN^EA kosea. 



Native of Victoria. 



Nat. Ord. Leguminos.e. — Tribe Podaltriej;. 

 Genus Pulten^a, Sin.; (Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. PI. vol. i. p. 470.) 



PtTLTE.\\-A (Cuelophyllutn) rosea; frntex erieoideus, ramulis virjjatis, foliis oon« 

 fertis patentibus anguste linearibus acutis rigidis aspcro-tiiberriilatis dorao 

 convexis marginibua ineorru rapra canaliculars, novellia nericeo-villoaia, 

 stipulis acicuWi-snbulatiis floribaa roaei* in oapituia terminalia aeaailia dis- 

 positis, bracteolis calvei appreesia lineari-lanceolatis, calycis aericei lobis ovato- 

 lane^olatis tubo mquilongis, corolla calyce duplo longinre, vexillo rotunda to 

 nnguiculato, alis onlongta apiee rotandUtia, carina alia paollo minora et 

 an^ustiore, ovarin villoso, stylo filiformi, Legamine acaminato. 



P. rosea. F. Muell. Fragment. Fl. Austral, vol. ii. p. 15, and Plants Indigenous 

 to Victoria. Suppt. PI. xiii.; Benth. FL Austral, vol. ii. p. 12b; Masters in 

 Oard. Chron. N. S. vol. vii. (1887), p. 431, fig. 67. 



Burtn-iia snbdpina, F. JSIuell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. vol. i. p. 39; and in 

 Hook. Keiv Journ. Pot. vol. viii. (185(3), p. 41. 



The opportunity of figuring a species of Pultencea recalls 

 the fact that it belongs to a class of very beautiful 

 Australian flowering shrubs, that were, with the South 

 African, the staple furniture of the greenhouse in the early 

 part of the century. In evidence of this, it is only neces- 

 sary to turn to the first volumes of this Magazine, wherein 

 no less than ten species are figured. These were all 

 published upwards of half a century ago ; the first, P. 

 stipularis, Sm. (Tab. 475), in the year 1800 ; and the last, 

 P. cordata, Grab., a var. of jtmiperina, Labill. (Tab. 3443), 

 in 18-J5. Since the latter period none have appeared in 

 the Maoazine, and not half-a-dozen in all other European 

 works dedicated to Horticulture. No doubt the time will 

 come wdien a corner, at any rate, of the greenhouse will be 

 devoted to plants of this class, and when this does come 

 there are few genera that can supply more ornamental 

 species than Pultencea, of which seventy-five species are 

 described in Bentham's " Flora Australiensis." 



P. rosea is a native of the summit of Mount William, in 

 the Grampian range of Victoria, where it was discovered 



jtne 1st, 1887. 



