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dense fascicles ; bracts small caducous ; bractlets minute very cadu- 

 cous, or 0' {Australia'). 



257. Pultenaea Sm. 3 — Flowers of Gastrolobium ; 2 superior calyx- 

 lobes sometimes very large (BucMlus*) ; style often conspicuously 

 dilated at base {Spadostyles h ). Legume ovate, compressed or turgid, 

 2-valved. Seeds 1,2, reniform arillate. — Shrubs; leaves alternate 

 or more rarely 3-nately verticillate simple ; margins revolute or 

 involute ; stipules lanceolate or subulate dusky scarious, usually 

 interfoliar connate ; flowers 6 axillary solitary, or crowded in stipules 

 of short capituliform terminal spikes or racemes ; bracts or upper 

 leaves often enlarged involucrant ; bractlets narrow persistent, 

 inserted on floral receptacle, closely appressed to calyx {Australia 1 ). 



258. Eutaxia R. Br. 8 — Calyx sub- 2 -labiate ; 2 superior lobes 

 connate into 1 horizontally truncate or more or less incised. Corolla 

 and stamens of Burtonia or Gastrolobium. Germen stipitate or sub- 

 sessile ; ovules 2 ; style slender incurved or uncinate ; apex minute 

 stigmatiferous. Legume ovate compressed or turgid 2-valved. 

 Seeds 1, 2, reniform arillate. — Shrubs, usually glabrous; leaves 

 opposite simple, convex or concave ; stipules small ; flowers axillaiy, 

 solitary, or 3 or 4 together pedicellate on an axillary twig bearing a 

 leaf-bud at apex ; bracts small ; bractlets 2 inserted at a variable 

 height on pedicel 9 (Australia 10 ). 



1 This genus is in habit very near Oxylohium, 

 from which it differs in its 2-ovulate germen ; by 

 this character it approaches Pultencea very closely, 

 being separated by its habit and the absence of 

 bractlets just before anthesis. 



2 Species about 30. Hook., Icon., t. 612 

 {Oxylohium). — Lodd., Hot. Cab.,t. 70. — Tuep., 

 in Diet. Sc. Nat., Atl., t. 176. — Lindl., Swan 

 Riv., t. 5 B.— Benth., in Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 

 80 ; Fl. Austral., ii. 96.— Lindl. & Paxt., Fl. 

 Gard., ii. t. 85.— Bot. Reg., t. 411; (1847), t. 

 45.— Rot. Mag., t. 2212.— Walp., Ann., ii. 312; 

 iv. 456. 



3 Iu Ann. of Rot., i. 502 ; in Trans. Linn. 

 Soe., ix. 245.— DC, Prodr., ii. 110.— Endl., 

 Gen., n. 6146.— B. H., Gen., 470, n. 24.— Rart- 

 lingia Ad. Be., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 1, x. 373. — 

 Schauee, Myrt. Xeroc, 22, t. 1 A. — Urodoti 

 Tuecz., in Bull. Mosc. (1819), ii. 16. 



4 R. Be., in Ait. Sort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 17. — 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 110.— Endl., Gen., n. 6444. 



5 Benth., in Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 80. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6445. 



6 Yellow or reddish-purple variegated. 



7 Species about 75. Labile., Nouv.-Eoll., t. 

 130, 131. — Sm., in Trans. Linn. Soe., ix. 215. — 

 Rtjdge, in Trans. Linn. Soe., xi. t. 23-25. — R. 

 Be., in Ait. Hart. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 17. — Hook. 

 F., Fl. Tasm., t. 13, 14. — Reichb., Icon. Exol., 

 t. 192-196.— Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 108.— 

 Bot. Reg., t. 378, 403, 1632, 1691.— Rot. Mag., 

 t. 475, 967, 1394, 1588, 2081, 2086, 2091, 2S59, 

 3254, 3143.— Walp., Rep., i. 574; ii. 832; v. 

 432; Ann., ii. 311 (Urodon), 313; iv. 457. 



8 In Ait. Sort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 16.— DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 109.— Endl., Gen., n. 6112.— B. II., 

 Gen., 47l,n.25. — Sclerot hamnus R. Be., loc. <■'/. 

 —DC, Prodr., ii. 109.— Endl., Gen., n. 6147. 



9 This genus is perhaps to be reduced to a 

 section of Pultencea, from which it di tiers in 

 habit and its bractlets removed from the flower. 



10 Species about 8. Labill., Noitr.-JIo//., t. 

 140 (Dilhvynia). — BENTH., in Ann. Wien. J/ us., 

 ii. 79; Fl. Austral., ii. 113.— Bot. Mag., t. 

 1274.— Walp., Rep., i. 573; ii. S32, v. 130; 

 Ann., i. 203 ; ii. 312. 



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