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PULTEN &A polygalifolia. 
Milkwort-leaved Pulienea. 

Linnean Class and Orders DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSAE. DC. prodr. 2. p. 93. 
Subordo I. PAPILIONACE.—Tribus Il. Sopuors. Supra fol. 5. 
PULTENZEA. Supra fol. 35. 
P. polygulifolia, floribus axillaribus terminalibusque, foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis mu- 
cronulatis supra concavis glabris subtus calycibusque pilosiusculis, stipulis lan- 
ceolato-subulatis appressis, ramis ramulisque ferrugineo-villosis, bracteis subu- 
latis calyce brevioribus. 
Pultenza polygalifolia. Rudg. linn. trans, 11. p.303, t,25. DC. prodr. 2. p.111. Spreng. 
syst. 2. p.351. Swt. hort. brit. p. 108. 

Stem shrubby, erect, very much branched, of a brown rusty 
colour: branches slender, spreading, producing numerous other 
small branches, scarcely strong enough to support their own 
weight, which occasions them to be a little pendulous when in 
bloom, thickly clothed with short woolly brown hairs, which 
gives them a rusty appearance. Leaves alternate, scattered, 
spreading, linearly oblong, obtuse with a very short mucro, at- 
tenuated towards the base, concave and smooth on the upper 
side, underneath slightly hairy. Petéoles short, pubescent. Séz- 
pules a little longer than the petioles, lanceolately subulate, 
pressed close to the stem. Flowers axillary, rarely terminal, 
bright yellow. Pedicles short and slender, pubescent. Calyw 
5-cleft, two-lipped, clothed with a short pubescence and a few 
long hairs intermixed, a little above the base are two sharp su- 
bulate bractes, which are shorter than the calyx: lacinize ciliate, 
those of the upper lip broadest and shortest, ovate, acute ; 
lower ones lanceolate, broad at the base, and taper-pointed. 
Vewillum rounded, slightly emarginate, marked with a pale red 
circle near the base, longer than the wings. Ale or ewengs spa- 
thulate, rounded at the points, and producing a long ear on 
one side near the base, which curves inward towards the slen- 
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