PLATE XCVIIL 



PULTENAEA daphnoides. 



Daphne-like Pultencea. 



CLASS X. ORDER I. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Ten Chives. 



One Pointal. 



GENERIC 

 Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, campanu- 



latum, utrinque appendiculatum; ore quin- 



quedentato, acuto. 

 Corolla papilionacea, pentapetala. 



Vexillum fub-cordatum, ereftum. 



Alee oblongae, vexillo breViores. 



Carina dipetala, petalis alis conformibus. 



Stamina. Filamenta decern, diftincla, aflur- 



gentia, longitudine carinae. Antherae fim- 



plices, minims. 

 Pistillum. Germen ovato-oblongum. Stylus 



fubulatus, magnitudine et fitu ftaminum. 



Stigma acutum, recurvatum. 

 Pericarpium. Legumen fubrotundam, apice 



mucronatum, uniloculare, bivalve. 

 Semina duo, fub-rotunda. 



SPECIFIC 

 Pultenaea foliis alternis, obovatis, glabris, mucro- 

 natisj floribus terminalibus, capitatis. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalement. Cup of one leaf, bell-fhaped, 

 having an appendage oil each fide; the 

 mouth five-toothed, fharp. 



Blossom. Butterfly-fhapcd, five petals. 

 Standard nearly heart-ihaped, upright. 

 Wings oblong, fhorter -than the ftandard. 

 Keel two petals, which are like ihofc of the 

 wings. 



Chives. Ten threads, diftincl, turned up at the 

 ends, the length of the keel. Tips fimple, 

 very fmall. 



Pointal. Seed-bud oblong- egg- lhnped. Shaft 

 awl-fhaped, the fize and fituation of the 

 chives. Summit fharp-pointed and recurved. 



Seed-vessel. Shell nearly round, with a fharp 

 point on the end, of one cell and two valves. 



Seeds two, roundifh. 

 CHARACTER. 



Pultenaea with alternate leaves, inverfely egg- 

 fhaped, fmooth, with a fharp point at the 

 ends; flowers terminate the branches grow- 

 ing in heads. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Cup, with its two appendages, magnified. 



2. The Standard of the Bloffom. 



3. One of the Wings of the Bloffom. 



4. The two Petals of the Keel. 



5. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize. 



6. The fame, magnified. 

 7- The Pointal. 



8. The fame, magnified. 



9. A half-ripe Seed-velTel, with the Cup remaining attached, magnified. 



From the number of fpecies of this genus of plants, already in Britain, we may conclude, that it is 

 one of the moft extended in New South Wales; twelve diftindt ones have already flowered, drawings 

 of moil of them we have, which will be brought forward in due courfe. Dr. Smith, in the third No. 

 of New Holland Botany, has named this tribe of plants after Dr. R. Pulteney, F. R. and F. L. S. of 

 Blandford, Dorfetfhire; well known for his Sketches of the Progrefs of Botany in England. But there 

 is little doubt, that although no fuch kind attention as this of Dr. Smith had been fhewn, to perpetuate 

 the name of Dr. Pulteney, he had, by his excellent life of Linnaeus, infured his own to live for ever. 

 The Pultenaeas, in fyftematic order, rank after, but very clofe to Sophora; but are little allied in general 

 habit, as are few plants from that country to thofe of any other. This fpecies was firft railed in 1/92, 

 in many gardens about the metropolis the fame year; but did not flower till 1 JQ6. It is a hardy green- 

 houfe plant, generally flowering about the month of May; but the bloffom is of fliort duration. Sandy 

 peat is the foil it moft approves; and its increafe is produced, either from feeds, which fometimes ripen 

 with us, or from cuttings placed in gentle heat about the month of May. The drawing was made from 

 a plant in the Hibbertian collection at Clapham, this year. 



