P L A T E CCLXVI.
P L A T Y L O B I U M OVATUM.
Oval-lca-ved Flai-Pea.
C L A S S XVII. ORDER IV. ,
DIA DELPHI A DECANDRIA. Chives in two Sets. Ten Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
LYX campanulatus, quinquefidus; laciniis
duabus fupremis maxirais, obtufis. Stamina
omnia coalita. Legumen pedicillatnm,
comproffum, dorfo a l a t u m , polyfpermum.
C U P bell-fliaped, five-cleft; the two upper fegments
very large and obtufe. The Chives
all united. Pod on a foot-ftalk, comprefled,
winged along the back, many feeded.
See P L A T Y L O B I UM SCOLOPENDKUM. PI. C X C I .
Vol. I I I.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Platylobium foliis ovat'is, glaberrimis, diftichis;
floribus folitariis, a x i l l a r i b u s ; ramis teret
i b u s .
Flat-Pea with egg-fhaped leaves, very fmooth
and pointing oppofite ways; flowers grow
folitary from the inferrion of the leaves;
branches cylinder-111 aped.
REFERENCE TO THE P L A T E.
1. T h e Empalement of the Flower.
2. The Standard, or upper p e t a l of t h e bloflbm.
3 . One of t h e W i n g s , or fide petals of the fame.
4. T h e two lower Petals, or Keel of the bloflbm.
5. T h e Chives, magnified.
6. T h e Seed-bud, magnified.
T H I S fpecies of Flat-Pea was brought from N e w South Wales, at t h e fame time as P. fcolopendrum,
3nd P. lanceolatum, to w h i c h laft it has much affinity; b u t , we think, poffefies a fnfficient number of
differing characters to conftitute a diftinft fpecies. It has not as yet been increafed, we believe, in
B r i t a i n ; any a t t e m p t , to that end, has h i t h e r t o proved abortive; from which circumftance the plants
a r e at prefent fcarce, and are t o be found in few collections. The fame treatment to preferve, and
render the plant flourifbing, is required for this, as for t h e other fpecies. Our D r a w i n g was made h
1 8 0 1 , at t h e N u r f e r y of Mefi'rs. L e e a n d Kennedy, Hammerfmith, who firft introduced it.