PLATE DLXXIV.
P U L T E N i E A OBCORDATA.
Inversely Heart-leaved Pulfenwa.
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CLASS X. ORDER L
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX quinque-dentatus, utrinque appendiculatus.
Corolla papilionacea, alls vexillo
brevioribus. Legumen uniloculare, dispermum.
CUP five-toothed, with an appendage on each
side. Blossom butterfly-shaped, with the
wings shorter than the standard. Pod of
one cell, with two seeds.
See Pultensea Daphnoides, PI. XCVI I I . Vol. IT.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
PULTEN.«A foliis obcordatis, miicronatis, nitidis.
PULTEN^A with inversely heart-shaped leaves,
mucronated, and shining.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. The vexillum.
3. One of the wings.
4. The two petals of the keel.
5. The chives and pointal, one tip magoiiied.
6. Seed-bud and poinlal.
THIS nondescript species of Pultensea is a native of New Holland, and was discovered on Van Diemen's
Land by Mr. Littlejohn, one of the residents on Governor Collins's settlement. It possesses lively
yellow flowers, and singularly obcordate leaves, and is a handsome addition to the genus Pultenaea, of
which it is a genuine member, having the two lutle appendages on the cup, the principal (although
trivial) leading feature that characterizes the genus. Our drawing was made from a specimen communicated
by A. B. Lambert, esq. with whom it has flowered for the first time in this country.
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