C 949 ] 

 Aotus Villosa. Villous Aotus. 



Oafs and Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-fidus, fimplex. Cor, papilionacea : alis vexillo bre- 

 vioribus. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtufum. Leg. l-loculare, 

 2-fpermum. Smith. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



AOTUS villofa. Smith in Ann. ofBot. v.i.p. 504. Dryander 



• ibid. vol. 2. p. 519. 

 PULTENjEA villofa. Bot. Repof. 309. 

 PULTEN^IA ericoides. Vent. Malmaif.^. Poiret in Encyc. 

 Meth. p. 738. 



Dr. Smith has, in our opinion, very properly feparated this 

 from the genus Pultenjea; from his Pulten^a villofa, 

 with which it has been confounded in the Botanift's Repofitory, 

 it is in every refpeQ: different. 



To wrrat is faid by the Dodor in the Annals of Botany, we 

 have nothing to add, except that the calyx, befides wanting 

 the appendages, is bilabiate, and has the two teeth of the upper 

 lip fhorter and more divaricate than the reft. 



It is a pretty little greenhoufe fhrub ; native of N eW ' 

 Holland ; flowers in May ; communicated by Mr. Loddi geS 

 of Hackney. 



