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* PULTENJEA flexilis. 

 Shining- leaved Pultcncea . 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. Orel. Leguminos.i;, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System 

 of Botany, p. 87.) 



PULTEN^A. Supra, vol. 5,foL 378. 



P. flexilis ; daberrima, floribus axillaribus, foliis oblongo-linearibus inucronatis 



planis. R. Broivn in Hort. Kew. vol. 3, p. 19. 

 P. flexilis. Smith in Linn. Trans. 9. 248. De Candolle Prodr, 2. 111. 

 Dillwynia teucrioides. Sieber plant, exs. n. hall. No. 423. 



Rami minutissimc pubescentes, subangulati. Folia obovato-ohlonga, 

 angiista, mucronulata, plana, viridia, nitida, glaberrima ; stipulis setaceis, 

 fuscis, ppJiolo paidh longioribus. Flores solitarii, axillares, brevipedunculati. 

 Calyx glabcrrimus, bibracteatus, 5-dentatus ; dentibus brevibus subcequalibus. 



We are indebted to Mr. Cunningham for the knowledge 

 of this being the true P. flexilis of Smith and the Hortus 

 Kewensis, with which an entirely different plant, with glaucous 

 leaves and hairy calyxes, has been confounded by Mr. Sweet. 



Mr. Cunningham concludes it must also be P. flexilis of 

 Mr. De Candolle, because that Botanist quotes as a synonym, 

 Dillwynia teucrioides of Sieber, the identity of which with tlie 

 present plant is proved by the comparison of authentic speci- 

 mens. The statement made by Mr. De Candolle, that his plant 

 has no bracts, may possibly be accounted for upon the suppo- 

 sition that the specimens he described were imperfect. 



Mr. Cunningham further adds that the species is " closely 

 allied to P . polygalifolia of Rudge, but the calyx of that species 

 is interspersed with villous hairs ; its leaves are smaller ; and 

 it is altogether a more abundant flowering plant. P. euchila 

 D. C. has also smaller cuneated leaves, and a remarkable 



* See fol. 1584. 



