( 2086 ) 



PlJLTENiEA TENUIFOLIA. FlNE-LEAVED 

 PULTENiEA. 



Class and Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal 5-fidus, labiis proportionate, bibracteatus (bracteis 

 pius ipso tubo insidentibus). Cor. papilionacea. Germen 



Stigma 



88? 



sessile, dispermum. Stylus subulatus, adscendens 

 simplex. Strophiola seminis lobis posticis incisis. 



Specific Character. 



Pultenaa lenui folia; capitulis terminalibus subbifloris, fruc- 

 tibus lateralibus foliis subulato-linearibus muticis supra 

 concavis subtus convent ramulisque pilosis. Brown 

 MSS. 



The Rowers in this delicate little shrub grow from one to 

 three at the extremities of the branchlets ; but as these are 

 proliferous or produce their young shoots from the same 

 point, as soon as the flowering is over, the fruit becomes 

 lateral ; and as it sometimes happens that this extension ot 

 the branchlet takes place before the flowers drop, they will in 

 such cases appear to be lateral instead of terminal. 1 he 

 braciea, or appendices of the calyx, arc in this species 

 inserted at the base of the tube, not, as in some others, 

 at its superior part. The vcxillum is nearly orbicular, not 

 emarginate, yellow within, and streaked with red on the 

 outside : alee hardly exceeding half the length of the 

 vexillum, connivent at the upper margin : carina shorter than 

 these. The leaves are very narrow, and are convex on the 

 under side, the margins being curved inwards instead ot 

 being revolute as in most part of the genus; and with the 

 branches and calyxes are covered with soft hairs. 



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