C 1508 ] 



Platylobium triangulare. Triangular- 

 leaved Flat-Pea. 



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DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal bracleatus bilabiatus : labio fuperiore bifido, rotundato, 

 maximo. Shim, omnia connexa. Legumen pedicellatum com- 

 prefib-planum, dorfo alatum, polyfpermum. Brown in Hort. 

 Kew. 4. p. 266. nondum edito. 



Specific Character. 



PLATYLOBIUM triangulares foliis deltoideis fubhaftatifvc : 

 angulis fpinofis, pedunculis bafi apiceque brafteatis medio 

 nudis, legumine calycem aliquoties fuperante. Brown "' 

 Hort. Kew. ed. alt. v. 4. p. 266. 



in 



The reparation of Bossi/EA from Platylobium has limited 

 very much the number of fpecies of the latter. We know of 

 only three that will now come under this genus, V.formofum, 

 No. 469. P. parvifiorum, of which we intend foon to give a 

 figure, and our prefent plant, which was not known to Dr. 

 Smith when he publifhed his account of the genus in the ninth 

 volume of the Tranfactions of the Linnean Society. 



The flowers of Platylobium triangulare are lefs brilliant 

 than thofe oKformofum ; the back part of the vexillum being of a 

 (late colour inftead of fine dark red ; on which account the buds 

 are totally deftitute of that richnefs of colouring fo much ad* 

 mired by Mr. Curtis in his account of the latter. 



Native of Van Diemen's I (land, from whence it was intro- 

 duced into the Kew Garden, by Mr. Brown, in the year 1805. 

 Flowers in June and July. Propagated by feeds, which rarely 

 come to maturity in this country ; and not being eafily increafed 

 in any other way? will probably never be very common. Out 

 of Kew Garden we have not obferved it in any collection, ex- 

 cept that of MefTrs. I.oddices and Sons in Hackney, by 

 whom it was communicated to us. 



