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by no means be admitted into the clafs Diadelphia^ but 
mull: come next to Sophora in that of Decandria. The 
plant before us is one among feveral fpecies which con- 
ftitute one of the moll diftindf of thefe genera, and to 
which we have given the name of Pultenaa in order to 
commemorate the merits of a very amiable and deferving 
Englifli Botanift, Dr. Richard Pulteney, F. R. and F. L. S, 
of Blandford in Dorfetfliire, well known by his Sketches 
of the Progrejs of Botany in England^ and more efpecially 
by his Biography of Linnaeus. 
This genus differs materially from the true Sophorce^ 
in having a roundifli pod of one cell, and only two feeds, 
inftead of a long many-feeded pod divided into numerous 
cells ; and although many of the Cape Sophora do indeed 
approach Pultenaa in their fruit, the laft mentioned 
genus is elTentially diftinguifhed from them, and all 
others we have hitherto feen, by the two appendages 
to the calyx, affixed either to its bafe or fides. 
We received a living fpecimen of this plant from Mr. 
Alexander Murray, gardener to Benjamin Robertfon, 
Efq. at Stockwell, who raifed it late in the autumn of 
1792 from feeds brought from New South Wales. It 
firlf flowered in April 1794. 
The ftem is ffirubby, varioufly branched, round ; the 
wood hard and whitiffi ; bark brown, covered more or 
lefs with withered briftly Jlipula : branches long and 
ftraight, pointing upwards, clothed with leaves, and ter- 
minated by round heads of handfome yellow inodorous 
flowers. The leaves furround the branches in great 
