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XLIII. LEGUMINOS/E. 
15. PULTENiEA, Sm. 
(In honour of Dr. W. Pulteney, a botanical author.) 
(Euchilus, jR. Br.; Spadostyles, Benth.; Urodon, Turcz.) 
Calyx, 2 upper lobes more or less united into an upper lip, and sometimes 
much larger than the lower ones, rarely all nearly equal. Petals on rather long 
claws ; standard nearly orbicular, longer than the lower petals ; wings oblong ; 
keel incurved. Stamens free. Ovary sessile or rarely shortly stipitate, with 2 
ovules on short funicles ; style subulate, often more or less dilated downwards ; 
stigma small, terminal. Pod ovate, flat or turgid, 2-valved. Seed reniform, 
strophiolate. — Shrubs. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite or in verticils of 3, 
simple. Stipules linear-lanceolate or setaceous, brown and scarious, closely 
pressed on the branch, and more or less united in the axil of the leaf, the points 
or sometimes nearly the whole stipule free and spreading, or the stipules minute 
and free, rarely quite deficient, those of the floral leaves often much enlarged 
whilst the lamina is reduced. Flowers yellow orange or mixed with purple, 
rarely pink, either axillary and solitary and then frequently collected in leafy 
heads or tufts near the ends of the branches, or crowded in terminal heads and 
surrounded within the floral leaves by imbricate, scarious, brown bracts or 
enlarged stipules without any lamina. Bracts under each flower usually small. 
Bracteoles persistent, either close under the calyx or adnate with its tube. Ovary 
villous or rarely glabrous. 
The genus is limited to Australia, presenting considerable diversity in foliage, inflorescence, 
and calyx, and closely allied in character to the other Podalyriete with 2 ovules and strophiolate 
seeds, yet not generally difficult to distinguish. From Gastrolobium it differs chiefly in habit, in 
the persistent bracteoles, and the more sessile, less turgid pod ; from Dilhcynia, which is even 
closer connected with it, the bracteoles close to or upon the calyx afford the most prominent 
distinction, although accompanied usually by other slight differences in habit or in flower. In 
the following distribution of its species, the sections proposed, founded on foliage and 
inflorescence, are perhaps scarcely worthy of ranking higher than so many series. — Benth. 
Sect. I. Eupultenaea. — leaves alternate, with recurved or revolute margins. Ovary quite 
sessile. 
Bracteoles adnate to (apparently inserted on) the calyx-tube (except in P. 
pycnocepliala ?) 
Flowers in dense, terminal, sessile heads, surrounded by imbricate 
stipular bracts, the inner ones longer than the pedicels. 
Stipules minute. Leaves linear, obtuse or retuse 1. P. retusa. 
Stipules conspicuous, often 1 line long or more. 
Leaves shortly obovate, coriaceous, shining above, densely silky- 
white underneath 2. P.pycnocephala. 
Leaves narrow-oblong, obtuse. Flower-heads large, silky-hairy. 
Petals persistent 3. P. myrtoides. 
Leaves Linear. 
Leaves nearly sessile, obtuse, or with a fine point. Flower-heads 
softly villous. Bracts deciduous 4. P. polifolia. 
Leaves on petioles of 2 to 4 lines. Bracts few 5. P. petiolaris. 
Leaves linear-acute or rarely oblong. Bracts persistent and com- 
pletely covering the calyxes, glabrous or rarely slightly silky . . 6. P. paleacea. 
Flowers few or in small heads, the bracts shorter than the pedicels. 
Leaves under Jin. long. 
Leaves not bilobed, obovate, a little cuneate, the margins slightly 
recurved 7. P. Hartmannii. 
Leaves linear-cuneate, obtuse or truncate 8. P. microphylla. 
Bracteoles close under the calyx, but free from it or scarcely adnate. 
Leaves small, obovate, very silky underneath, glabrous above .... 2. P.pycnocephala. 
Sect. II. (Euchilus. — Leaves all or mostly opposite or in whorls of three, flat, concave or the 
margins slightly recurved, often 1 or 'i-nerved or penniveined, rarely reticulate. Flowers axillary 
or crowded at the ends of the branches. Tivo upper lobes of the calyx much larger than the others. 
Ovary often contracted at the base into a very short stipes . — Benth. 
