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PODOLOBIUM* trilobatum. 



Three-lohed Podolohium. 



DECANDRIA MONaCYNIA. 



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Nat. ord. LEouMiNOSiE. \ Sophorea. 



PODOLOBIUM R. Br.— Calyx 5-fidus, bilabiatus, labio superiore 

 bifido, inferiore 3-partito. CoroUce carina compressa longitudine alarum 

 vexillum explanatum subsequantiura. Ovarium simplici serie 4-spermum ; 

 shjlus ascendens; stigma simplex. Xe^rMmeTipedicellatumjlineari-oblongum, 



modice ventricosum, intiis Iseve.- SufFrutices habitu Chorizematis, et forte 



cum hoc genere, Smithio prceeunte^ conju7igend(B. — Dec. prodr. 2. 103. 



V . trilobatum ; foliis oppositis spinoso-dentatis subtrilobis, basi transversa, 

 lobis lateralibus terminali dentato multoties brevioribus, ovario senceo.— 

 Dec. I. c. 



Pultenaea ilicifolia. Botanist's repository, tab. 320. 



Chorizema trilobatum. Smith trans. Lin. Sac. 9. p. 253. 



Podolobium trilobatum. Brown in hart. Kew. 3. p. 9. Sims hot. mag. 

 t. 1477. 



A pretty greenhouse shrub, introduced so long since as 

 the year 1791 by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, but not very 

 common in collections. Our drawing was made m the 

 Garden of the Comte de Vandes at Bayswater, in Jane 

 1825, where the great beauty of its lively yellow and red 

 flowers particularly excited our attention. 



It is increased chiefly by cuttings, which, however, do 

 not strike very freely. 



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The leaves of this, and some other Leguminous plants, 

 are opposite ; a striking exception to the general fact, that 

 in that order they are alternate ; and a proof that what 

 Botanists consider even the most fixed characters are occa- 



• From ^.h, ^Jij, a foot, and Mfi\,, a bean-pod; in allusion to the 

 stalked legumes of the genus. 



