PLATE CXCI. 
PLATYLOBIUM SCOLOPENDRUM.. 
Scolopendra-like fiemmed Flat-Pea. 
CLASS XVII. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads in two Sets. 
ORDER. IV. 
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GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Perianthium, campanulatum quinque- 
tatum ; laciniis tribus inferioribus acu- 
tis, patentibus ; duabus fupremis maximis, 
obtufis, obovatis, vexillo adpreflis. 
Corotta papilionaeea, 
um, — emarginatum, erec- 
tum, maxim 
Ale vexillo ‘emer. obtufz, femi-obcor- 
datz, bafi denticulate. 
Carina obtufa, compreffa, longitudine et 
ura alarum, 
Stamina filamenta decem, coalita in, vaginam, 
. ra femififlam, apice libera, equalia, 
— - Anthere fabrotundz, verfa- 
Ca.yx. 
den 
“Kahne lineare, eo Stylus 
incurvatus, vlabeh Stigma 
PERICARPIUM, gumen pedi Grain: com- 
— obtufum, gs, eee: unilocu- 
are, dorfo alatum. 
Semin, plurima, comprefla, reniformia. 
Cup bell- -thaped, five-toothed ; 
— fegments pointed, fpread- 
ing; the two upper very large, obtufe, 
preffed to ee ftandard. 
EMPALEMENT. 
the three 
Bossom butterfly-fhaped. 
Sta 
ndard, inverfely ane a ga notched 
at the end, upright, very large. 
Wings fhorter than the daniard ,obtufe, half » 
inverfely heart-fhaped, toothed at the bafe. 
Keel, _— flattened, ine length and fhape 
of the w 
Ten. thee ads, united into a fheath, 
ha e bow on the upper fide, feparate at 
equal and turned upwards, ‘Tips 
bouiek. verfatile. 
Pointat. Seed-bud linear, hairy. Shaft turned 
inwards, fmooth. mit fimple. 
SgED-vesseL. Pod with a footftalk, flattened, ob- 
tufe, po a {mall point, one-celled, winged 
alon c 
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SEEDs many, Gittened, kidney-fhape. 
eR ETRE 
SPECIFIC CHARAC TER. 
Platylobium foliis ovatis, glabris; ramis ramu- 
lifque compreffis, alatis, margine, cicatias 
tis, floribus folitariis, 
Flat-pea with egg-fhaped finooth leaves, larger 
and {fmaller branches flat, winged and 
hacked at the edges ; flowers folitary. 
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REFERENCE TO THE FLATE. 
The Empalement, natural fize. 
The Standard of the bloffom. 
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2. 
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4. The two petals of the K 
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6. 
Tus Genus of plants was firft named by Dr. Smith, in the Linn. Trans. Vol. II. 350, from the 
. fo ormofum, which he aft 
erwards figured i in the New-Holland fpecimens, Tab. VI. Our fpecies 
by Mefirs. Lee. and Kenne 
ennedy. It is a hardy green- 
houfe plant; but has not, hitherto, been increafed in this eet ge It muft be planted in very fandy 
apt to deftroy it. The young 
“foarte which in the old plant appear much more like leaves, Pee feldom any leaves are produced 
