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by no means be admitted into the clafs Diade/phia, but 
muit come next to Sephora in that of Decandria. The 
plant before us is one among feveral {pecies which con- 
{titute one of the moft diftinét of thefe genera, and to 
which we have given the name of Pw/tenva in order to 
commemorate the merits of a very amiable and deferving 
Englifh Botanift, Dr. Richard Pulteney, F.R. and F. L. S, 
of Blandford in Dorfetfhire, well known by his Sketches 
of the Progre/s of Botany in England, and more efpecially 
by his Biography of Linnzeus. 
This genus differs materially from the true Sophora, 
in having a roundith 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 Sophore do indeed 
approach Pu/tenea in their fruit, the lait mentioned 
genus is effentially 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 
firft flowered in April 1794. 
The ftem is fhrubby, varioufly branched, round; the 
wood hard and whitith; dark brown, covered more or 
lefs with withered briftly /7pule: branches long and 
{traight, pointing upwards, clothed with leaves, and ter- 
minated by round heads of handfome yellow inodorous 
flowers. The /eaves furround the branches in great 
