: PLATE CCCIX. 
PULTENZA VILLOSA. 
Hairy Pultenea. 
Chess “XxX. ORDER IL 
DECANDRIA MONOGY. NIA. TenChives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
ae CaLyYx quinquedentatis, utrinque appendicula- Cup five-toothed, with a hanging prop on each 
tus, Corolla papilionacea, alis vexillo bre- fide. Bloffom butterfly-thaped, the wings 
vioribus. Legumen uniloculare, difper- fhorter than the ftandard. A one-celled 
num, a pod, two seeded. : 
3s agit SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Pultenzea aes 7: floribus eee ‘ | Pultenza with oblong, sally leaves; flowers 
ribus, folitariis, evillofo; ca- || grow from the infertion of the leaves, foli- 
| oe tary, and in ieee stem hairy; cup with- 
‘ 2 nese 
sv very extended natural order of plants, 
fk of fome difficulty with our modern bo- 
tial cha ater for a genus, than immediately we are 
fe whole habits affimilate with our newly conftruéted 
fent jal charaéter. In fuch predicament ftands our prefent 
up, yet has it been placed, by Willdenow, &c. to Pultenza; 
for if every difference of this nature was taken up, on which to 
t from that country would furnifh grounds for new names; and, 
are, already, fufficiently extended. The Pultenzas are all rather im- 
wey ate not frequently killed by too much moifture, yet they become 
x leaves. This fpecies grows to the height of about three feet; 
- handfome appearance. At perfeéts its feeds, and may be i 
in about the | beginning of April. A mixture of fandy peat three 
am, is the beft foil to grow it i in. It was amongf the firft plants 
y (Our figure was made at the Hammerfimith 
