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PLatyLosium Formosum. LarceE- 
FLOWERED FLAT-PEA. 
JHB HERES dere 
~ Clafs and Order. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIAe 
Generic Charaéfer. a 
Cal. ‘campanulatus, quinquefidus, laciniis duabus fupremis 
maximis, obtufis. Legumen pedicellatum compreffum, dorfo 
alatum, polyfpermum. eS = SN Bee 
. Specific Charaéer and Synonyms, 
PLATYLOBIUM formofum foliis cordato-ovatis, germine 
> pilofo. Smith Linn. Tranf. v. 2. 350. 
Bot. New Holl. tab. 6. Cheilococca apocynt- 
: folia. Salifo. Prod. 412. ses 
The feeds of this plant having been among the firft of thofe © 
imported from Botany-Bay, feedlings have been raifed, and the 
plants have grown up and flowered in moft colle&ions of green- 
houfe plants about town ; an opportunity has been thus afforded 
_ of afcertaining its beauty, and it muft be confeffed there are few. 
papilionaceous flowers more handfome, the buds in particular 
are inexpreflibly rich in colour, thefe are produced from June 
to Auguft, but are rarely fucceeded by ripe feeds in this — 
country. : 
In raifing this fpecies, recourfe is generally had to foreign 
feeds, for cuttings are not eafily ftruck ; great difficulty alfo 
attends the rearing the feedlings, as they are very apt to go off © 
when young, when they advance in fize they generally grow 
more freely ; we have obferved the plant to fucceed very well 
wah J while others fcarcely have been able to keep it -— 
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