PULTEN#A PEDUNCULATA. | 
| PULTEN EA. - = 
Class and Order: a 
toHok Decaspnra Moxocrst cnon? 
( Nat. Ord. = Lecominoss. ) 
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4 
Pye 
Cal. 5-fidus, er proportionatis, bibiiicteatus (binetis 
sepius ipso tubo insidentibus). Cor. papil 
sessile, dispermum. Stylus subulatus, adseende 
simplex, eke senna agbis wy ti is int 
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Paina? P sbasaliatnd pedunculis eine pane ter- 
minalibus, fructibus lateralibus, foliis Jineari-lanceo- 
_latis. pee ramisque adpresstnpieais, | a 
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Descr. A low growing Ss i! with slender, flexuose 
branches, which are deflexed, especially the lower ones, 
pubescent ; branchlets numerous. Leaves scattered, small, 
linear-lanceolate, sessile, clothed with many appressed 
hairs, plane, da green above, pé aed with a 
midrib beneath : at their base on the 
brown membranaceous stipules, which ‘stand upright and 
are appressed to the stem. Flowers in pairs from the ex- 
tremity of the young branches : but they afterwards appear 
lateral from the pro ongation of their branches. Peduncle 
an inch or more in 1 slender, filiform, flexuose. Calyx 
: en lines corresponding 
ited teeth. There 
is 
* In honour of Dr, Ricnarp Putrensy, an excellent Natural Historian. 
