OXYLOBIUM PULTENi;^. 
(Pultensea-like Oxylobium). 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOS^. 
Generic Character.— CaZ^z-r profoundly five cleft, 
somewhat bilabiate. Carina compressed, the length of 
the wings, but about equal in length to the broad 
vexillum. Stamens inserted in the torus, or in the 
bottom of the calyx. Style ascending, crowned by a 
simple stigma. Legume sessile or subsessile, many- 
seeded, ventricose, ovate, acute. Don's Gard. and 
Botany, 
Specific Character — Plant an evergreen shrub. 
Leaves in whorls of three or four, or alternate, linear, 
slightly obtuse, with folded margins, smooth, but 
having the middle nerve pubescent. Flowers in umbels, 
pedicellate. Peduncles and pedicels furnished with 
small deciduous bracts. Corolla orange yellow. 
Although not equal to 0. retusum in sliowiness, nor yet possessing such 
ample foliage, this species is one of the most ornamental of the genus ; and also 
ranks very high among the yellow and brown papilionaceous flowers with which 
our greenhouses are so profusely furnished. The smallness of its leaves is atoned 
for by their neatness ; and when well cultivated, it bears its lively orange blossoms 
in bunches, from all parts of the stem, crowning it with a large and exceedingly 
dense cone of inflorescence. 
From a fine specimen which we met with last summer at Messrs. Young's, of 
Epsom, and which was admirably grown, we had the figure which is here given 
prepared. The plant was from eighteen inches to two feet in height, and liad as 
many as twenty stems or branches, each as good as the one depicted, and flowering 
as finely. 
It is by no means a new species, having been brought from New Holland in 
the year 1824. Cultivators, however, have not given it much attention, and it is 
far from being common. We believe it has never before been figured ; from which 
circumstance, and from its meritorious character, we have thought that a drawing 
would be well received. 
This is decidedly one of those plants that need a little care in their cultivation, 
and whicli will reward the grower for any trouble he may expend upon them. 
If potted carelessly, placed in a situation where other plants too closely surround 
it, and not further regarded, it will grow up straggling and unsightly, and appa- 
