350 Dr. SmirH’s Account of 
PLATYLOBIUM. 
Diadelphia Decandria. Stamina omnia connexa. 
Cuar. Gen. Calyx campanulatus, quinquefidus, laciniis. duobus: 
fupremis maximis, obtufis. 
Filamenta omnia bafi connexa, latere fuperiori diftinéta. 
Legumen pedicellatum, compreffum, dorfo € polyfper- 
mum. 
THIS genus belongs to the sth fection of M. de Juffieu’s order: 
of esc. ind may be GARE near Crotalaria in, à the Lin- 
nean Wiens cose å 
Its name I have deduced from æAarus broad, and Acbos a pod: 
The two large fegments of the calyx, and the flat upper 
margin of the pod, abundantly “pags ice it from all other - 
genera. 
We are hitherto acquainted. with only one certain fpecies of this 
genus, feeds and fpecimens of which have been. fent from New 
South Wales, and which may juftly be called ` 
PLATYLOBIUM formwofium 
Orange Jlat-pea. 
Stem fhrubby, four feet high. Branches oppone, round, FA 
ih, covered with leaves, and. ornamented with numerous 
flowers. p 
Leaves 
