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PODOLOBIUM* trilobatum. 

 Three-lohed Podolobium. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. LEGUMiNOSiE. § Sophorece. 



PODOLOBIUM R. Br. — Calyx 5-fidus, bilabiatus, labio superiore 

 bifido, inferiore 3-partito. Corollce carina compressa longitudine alarum 

 vexillum explanalum subsequantiura. Ovarium simplici serie 4-spermum ; 

 stylus ascendens; stigma simiplex. Xe^fMmewpedicellatum, lineari-oblongum, 



modice ventricosum , intus Iseve. SufFrutices habitu Chorizematis, et forte 



cum hoc genere, Smithio prceeunte, conjungendce. — Dec. prodr. 2. 103. 



P. trilohatum ; foliis oppositis spiaoso-dentatis subtrilobis, basi transversa, 

 lobis lateralibus terminali dentato multoties brevioribus, ovario sericeo. — 

 Dec. I. c. 



Pultenaea ilicifolia. Botanist's repository, tab. 320. 



Chorizema trilobatum. Smith trans. Lin. Soc. 9. p. 253. 



Podolobium trilobatum. Brown in hart. Kew. 3. p. 9. Sims bot. mag. 

 t. 1477. 



A pretty greenhouse shrub, introduced so long since as 

 the year 1791 by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, but not very 

 common in collections. Our drawing was made in the 

 Garden of the Comte de Vandes at Bayswater, in June 

 1825, where the great beauty of its lively yellow and red 

 flowers particularly excited our attention. 



It is increased chiefly by cuttings, which, however, do 

 not strike very freely. 



The leaves of this, and some other Leguminous plants, 

 are opposite ; a striking exception to the general fact, that 

 in that order they are alternate ; and a proof that what 

 Botanists consider even the most fixed characters are occa- 



* From TTdVi 5r«§05, a foot, and M/io?, a bean-pod; in allusion to the 

 stalked legumes of the genus. 



