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PULTENZA CORDATA. SHarp HeART-LEAVED 
PULTEN A. 
Class and Order. 
DecanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminosz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-fidus, labiis proportionatis, bibracteatus (bracteis 
sepius ipso tubo insidentibus). Cor. papilionacea. Germ. 
sessile, dispermum. Stylus subulatus, adscendens. Stig- 
ma simplex. Strophiola seminis lobis posticis incisis. D C. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Puiten#a cordata; capitulis terminalibus, foliis cordato- 
ovatis acutis mucrone pungenti subcarnosis concavis 
utrinque glabris, stipulis scariosis. 
This plant was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
in 1832, from seeds sent from Van Diemen’s Land the year 
before, by Campzett Rippei, Esq. It flowered very freel 
in the greenhouse in April, 1835, and is highly ornamental, 
notwithstanding the lurid colour of its foliage and branches. 
Descr. Shrub erect; branches erect, red, villous, when 
very young green. Leaves crowded, petiolate, spreading, 
cordato-oyate, acute, terminated by a pungent bristle ; vein- 
less, somewhat fleshy, concave, glabrous on both sides, 
shining below, of a very dark green. Petioles red, fleshy, 
adpressed, tumid at the base. Sizpules erect, acute, ad- 
pressed, nearly twice as long as the petioles, within which 
they cohere, membranous. Bractee two, at the base of the 
calyx, ovato-lanceolate, keeled, adpressed, free, as long as 
the calyx-tube. Calyx red, villous, teeth of the lower lip 
spreading and somewhat reflected, equal. Flowers capi- 
tate at the extremity of the branches, 2—5 in the capitula, 
perfumed, 
