EMPALEMENT. Cup of one leaf, bell-shaped, having an appendage on each side; the mouth five-toothed, sharp. BLOSSOM. Butterfly-shaped, five petals. _Standard_ nearly heart-shaped, upright. _Wings_ oblong, shorter than the standard. _Keel_ two petals, which are like those of the wings. CHIVES. Ten threads, distinct, turned up at the ends, the length of the keel. Tips simple, very small. POINTAL. Seed-bud oblong-egg-shaped. Shaft awl-shaped, the size and situation of the chives. Summit sharp-pointed and recurved. SEED-VESSEL. Shell nearly round, with a sharp point on the end, of one cell and two valves. SEEDS two, roundish. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pultenæa foliis alternis, obovatis, glabris, mucronatis; floribus terminalibus, capitatis. Pultenæa with alternate leaves, inversely egg-shaped, smooth, with a sharp point at the ends; flowers terminate the branches growing in heads. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Cup, with its two appendages, magnified. 2. The Standard of the Blossom. 3. One of the Wings of the Blossom. 4. The two Petals of the Keel. 5. The Chives and Pointal, natural size. 6. The same, magnified. 7. The Pointal. 8. The same, magnified. 9. A half-ripe Seed-vessel, with the Cup remaining attached, magnified. From the number of species of this genus of plants, already in Britain, we may conclude, that it is one of the most extended in New South Wales; twelve distinct ones have already flowered, drawings of most of them we have, which will be brought forward in due course. Dr. Smith, in the third No. of New Holland Botany, has named this tribe of plants after Dr. R. Pulteney, F. R. and F. L. S. of Blandford, Dorsetshire; well known for his Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England. But there is little doubt, that although no such kind attention as this of Dr. Smith had been shewn, to perpetuate the name of Dr. Pulteney, he had, by his excellent life of Linnæus, insured his own to live for ever. The Pultenæas, in systematic order, rank after, but very close to Sophora; but are little allied in general habit, as are few plants from that country to those of any other. This species was first raised in 1792, in many gardens about the metropolis the same year; but did not flower till 1796. It is a hardy greenhouse plant, generally flowering about the month of May; but the blossom is of short duration. Sandy peat is the soil it most approves; and its increase is produced, either from seeds, which sometimes ripen with us, or from cuttings placed in gentle heat about the month of May. The drawing was made from a plant in the Hibbertian collection at Clapham, this year. [Illustration] PLATE XCIX. GLADIOLUS BLANDUS. _Large White-flowered Gladiolus._ CLASS III. ORDER I. _TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA, sexpartita, ringens. STAMINA adscendentia. BLOSSOM, six divisions, gaping.