Our learned friend, Dr. Smith, in the Annals of Bo tarty, 

 and in the 9th volume of the Tranfaftions of the Linnean So- 

 ciety, has given the generic and Jpecific characters of the de- 

 candrous papilionaceous plants of New-Holland, with a truly 

 ma'lerly hand. But as there are many more of thefe plants 

 thin the Doftor can have had an opportunity of feeing, and 

 only a comparatively fmall number of thefe could have been 

 examined by him in a living ltate, it is to be expected that 

 more genera will hereafter be neceffarily formed, and that 

 fome of the fpecies will be differently arranged ; however this 

 maybe, the above e flays will remain honourable monuments 

 of the author's abilities and induftry ; for every Botanift, who has 

 confidered this natural order, has heretofore found the attempt to 

 reduce it into any method attended with almoft infurmountable 

 obftacles, moft of which are removed by thefe elTays. Mr. 

 Brown having had the advantage of iludying thefe plants in 

 their native foil, we look to him for a ftill more fatisfaclory 

 account of thefe plants than we have yet had. 



Whether our prefent plant properly belong to the genus 

 Dillwynia, or ought rather to be confidered as a Pultensa 

 on account of its braftes, which, though minute and not fo 

 clofe to the calyx, are neverthelefs very analagous to thofe of that 

 genus, or whether it (hould be confidered as diftinft from both, 

 we. cannot determine. From the fimilarly formed calyx, the 

 oblong hairy ovarium, the truncate iligma, which is neither 

 acute nor pubefcent, we fhould be inclined to think that it 

 mull belong to the fame genus as D. glaberrima, No. 944* 

 notwithstanding the vexillum has not the long tranfverfe 

 diameter of the latter ; but neither is it entire, as reprefented 

 by Labillardiere, but is divided nearly to the middle into 

 two lobes. Perhaps Pultexjea obcordata (Bot. Repof. Pl» 

 574) may likcwife unite with it. 



We fuppofe that Dr. Smith's D. myrtifolia above quoted 

 and the D. obovata of Labillardiere are the fame as our 

 plant, although the figure of the latter, without the defcription, 

 would hardly lead to fuch a fufpicion. The name is not the 

 moft appropriate, but as it has the right of priority we of courie 

 adopt it. 



Our drawing was made from a plant communicated by 

 MefTrs. Loddiges and Sons. Flowers in May. Gathered at 

 King George's Sound by Mr. A, Menzies, and in Van Die- 

 man's Land by Labillardiere. Requires the fhelter of » 

 good greenhoufe. 



