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P L A T E CCCIX.
P U L T E N i E A VILLOSA.
Hairy Pultencea.
C L A S S X. ORDER L
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives One PointaL
C A L Y X quinquedentatis, utrinque appendiculatus.
Corolla papilioiiacea, alis vexillo brevioribus.
Legumen uniloculare, difperiiura.
ESSENTIAL GENEKIC CHARACTER.
CUP five-toothed, with a hanging prop on each
fide. Bloffora butterfly-ihaped, the wings
fliorter than the ftandard. A one-celled
pod, two seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Pultena:a folils oblongis, villofis; floribas axillaribus,
Iblitariis, fpicatis; caule villolo; calycibus
inappendiculatis.
Pultenaea with oblong, hairy leaves; flowers
grow from the infertion of the leaves, folitary,
and in fpikes; stem hairy; cup without
props.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A Leaf.
2. The Cap, natural fize.
3. The Standard of tlie bloflom.
4. One of the Wings of the blotrom.
5 The two Leaves of the keel.
6 The Empaleraent, Chives, and Pointal, raagniiied.
7. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Sunamit, magmfied.
crpnera of this very extended natural order of plants,
WHEK. to place the limits to the vanous new gene f t h . J
with butterfly bloifoms, from New for a genus, than immediately we are
tanifis; for. no fooner have ^ .f f . u i L e with our newly conftruaed
ftrnck with the appearance of new ~ predicament ftands our prefent
family, but in the princrpa and ponrted effentu d i aer by wmd e n ow, &c. to Mtena^a;
f u b j e a , it wants the a p p e n d . c ^ to ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^^^ „„
and wi,h good realon, we [^ . country would furnifh grounds for new names; and,
form new genera, nearly every plant fiom ~ P„lten«=as are all rather imto
fay the truth, we think they are, moitture, yet they become
patient of wet, and although they are not ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ,, .^e height of about three feet;
unfightly, by lofing all thur ^ "" perfeas its feeds, and may be increafed
and, when in flower, makes a very ' - "¿fon e appe r nee. p ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^
by cuttmgs. which fl>ould be put m ^ ^ ^ ^^ in. It was amongft the firft plants
s r . : - - country^ our «gure was made at the Hammern.ith
nurfery, in 1801.
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