302 Dr Smith's Characters of Platylobium, Bossiaa, 



and have flowered in the gardens about London, except Poiretia 

 elliptica, which conies from the other side of Sew Holland. 



The genera in question belong to the 1st section of Diadelphia 

 Decandria in Linnaeus, " staminibus omnibus connexis," and to the 

 oth section of Jussieu's Leguminosce. 



1. Platylobium. Trans, of Linn. Soc. v. 2. 350. 



Calyx bilabiatus; labio superiore jbifido, rotundato. Legumen 

 pediccllatum, compresso-planum, membranaceum, dorso 



alatum, uniloeulare, polyspermum. 



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1. P. formosum, foliis cordato-ovatis, genuine piloso. 



P. formosum. Bot. of N. Roll. 1?. t. 6. Curt. Mag. t. 469. 

 Ventenat Malmais. /.SI. 



This shrub has been so fully described, especially in the 2d 

 volume of our Transactions, that I have nothing new to add, 

 except, an improvement of the character of the calyx, which is 

 truly 2-lipped. 



2. P. parviflorum, foliis lanceolato-ovatis, genuine glabro. Bot. 



of N. Holl 18. 



This species flowered at Messrs. Grimwood's, Kensington, in 

 1799? and in several other gardens since, but I know not that 

 it has been figured. 



2. BossiiEA. Ventenat Jard. de Cels, 7. 

 Calyx bilabiatus ; labio superiore bifido, retuso. Legumen pedi- 

 cellatum, compress um, margine utroque incrassatum, intus 

 spongiosum, multiloculare, polyspermum. 



1. B. heterophylla, ramis compressis, foliis ellipticis lineari- 

 busque. 



B. hetero- 



