PLATE | COCLL | 
PULIEN AA. RUBIAFOLIA. 
-Madder-leaved Pultenea. 
CLASS X. ORDER IL 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA,. Ten Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx quinque-dentatus, utrinque appendicu- | Cup five-toothed, with an appendage on each 
Jatus. Corolla papillionacea, alis vexillo fide. Bloffom butterfly-fhaped, with the 
brevioribus. Legumen uniloculare, difper- _- wings fhorter than the fiandard. Pod of 
one cell with two feeds. 
4 See PuLTENHA DaPHNoIpEs, P].XCVIIL. Vol. II. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Pultenza foliis ternis, verticillatis, lanceolatis, Pultenzea with leaves growing by threes in 
ferratis, rigidis; floribus capitatis, czruleo- whorls, lance-fhaped, fawed and harfh; 
purpureis. | flowers grow in heads, and of a bluifh pur- 
ple. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
. The Cup. 
The Standard. 
One of the Wings. 
The two Petals of the Keel. 
The Chives and Pointal. 
The same, magnified. 
The Pointal. — 
A ripe Seed-pod, open. 
One of the Seeds, of its natural fize when ripe. 
SCONOVREdS 
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Here we find another hiatus to fill up, or pafs over; either a new genus is to be formed for this 
plant, or we muft not boggle at trifles, and {kip over one of the effential charaéters of Dr. Smith's 
Pultenzeas, the appendicles or props at the fide of the cup, which are wanting in this plant, though 
agreeing in every other. We have, however, until the Dodtor fhall think fit to regulate thefe new, 
numerous and intricate genera and fpecies from New Holland, made no fcruple to add this plant, as 
another fpecies, to the genus Pultenza. It is a low growing buthy fhrub, feldom attaining more than 
a foot in height; is very apt to be deftroyed by damp in winter, and is not to be propagated but by 
feeds, which, however, it perfects in this country. The bloffoms begin to appear in May, and con- 
tinue in fucceffion through the fummer months of June, July, and Auguft. It fhould be kept warm 
and dry in winter, growing with moft luxuriance in light fandy peat earth, and flowering the fecond 
year from the feed. This plant was firft raifed in 1792, by Mefirs. Lee and Kennedy, at their nurfery, 
Hammerfmith, where our drawing was taken. 
