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Pi-ATYLOBIUM PARV1FLORUM. SiMALL- 

 FLOWERED FlAT-PeA. 



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DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. brafteatus, bilabiatus : labio Juperiore bifido, rotundato, 

 niaximo. Stamina omnia connexa. Legumen pedicellatum, 

 compreflb-planum, dorfo alatum, polyfpermum. Brown. 



Specific Qjarafter and Synonyms. 



PLATYLOBIUM parviflorum ; foliis lanceolato-ovatis, ger- 

 mine ciliato glabriufculo, brafleis glabris, pedicello legu- 

 minis calycem fuperante. Brown Mff. Hort.Kew. ed, alU 4. 

 />. 266. 



PLATYLOBJUM parviflorum; foliis lanceolato-ovatis gcr- 

 mine glabro. Smith Nov. Holl. 1. p. 18. et Tranf. Linn, 

 Soc. v. 9. p. 302. Willd. Sp. PL 3. p. 302. 



Dr. Smith, in the ninth volume of the Tranfaclions of the 

 Linnean Society, informs us, that this fpecies of Platylobium 

 flowered at MefTrs. Grimwood's, at Kenfington, in 1799; 

 and our drawing, which was executed about that time, was 

 probably taken from the very plant alluded to. Being pofleffed 

 °i fomewhat lefs beauty than the formofum, it was, perhaps, not 

 jo carefully attended to, and feems to have been foon loft. It 

 J? a s only been within thefe two years that we have again ob- 

 served it in our gardens, and it is at prefent far from being 

 common. 



We have now given the whole of the fpecies of Platylo- 

 8ium recorded in the new edition of the Hortus Kewcnfis, 



viz. 



