PLATE CXCI. 



PLATYLOBIUM SCOLOPENDRUAI. 



Scolopendra-like Jlemmed Flat-Pea, 



CLASS XYIL ORDER IV. 

 DIADELPHIA DE CANDR I A. Threads in two Sets. Ten Chives. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthiuin, campanulatum quinqiic- 



dentatiim ; laciniis tribus inferioribus acii- 



tis, patcntibus; duabus i'upremis maxiniis, 



obtufis, obovatis, vexillo adpieflis. 

 CoKOLLA papilionncea. 



Fc.iiihim, obcordatum, emarginatum, trec- 



tum, maximum. 



Alie vexillo breviores, obtufae, femi-obcor- 



datw, bafi deiiticulatas. 



Carina obtufa, comprelTa, longitudine et 



figura alarum. 

 Stamina filamenta decern, coalita in vaginam, 



fupra lemifiiram, apice libera, acqualia, 



alliirentia. Antherae lubrotundae, verfa- 



tiles. 

 PiSTiLLUM. Germen lineare, pilofum. Stylus 



incurvatus, glaber. Stigma fimplt-x. 

 Pericarpium. Legumen pedicellatuni, com- 



preli'um, obtufum, mucronaturn, unilocu- 



lare, dorfo alatuni. 

 Semina, plurima, comprclTa, reniformia. 



Empalement. Cup bell-niaped, five-toothed; 

 the three lower fegments pointed, fpread- 

 iiig; the two upper very large, obtufe, 

 prelled to the ftandard. 



Blossom butterfly fliaped. 



Standard, inverfely heart-fliaped, notched 

 at the end, upright, very large. 

 I'/ings iliortcr than the ftandard, obtule, half 

 inverfely heart-ftiaped, toothed at the biife. 

 Keel, obtufe, flattened, the length and lliape 

 of the wings. 



Chives. Ten threads, united into a flicath, 

 half cleft on the upper fide, feparate at 

 the top, equal and turned upwards. Tips 

 roundilli, verfatile. 



PoiNTAL. Seed-bud linear, hairy. Shaft turned 

 inwards, fniooth. Summit flmple. 



Seed-vessel. Pod with a footftalk, flattened, ob- 

 tufe, with a fmall point, one-celled, winged, 

 along the back. 



Seeds many, flattened, kidney-fhape. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Platylobium foliis oralis, glabris ; ramis ramu- 

 lifque compreflis, alatis, margine, cicatrifa- 

 tis, floribus folitariis. 



Flat-pea with egg-fliaped fmooth leaves, larger 

 and fmaller branches flat, winged and 

 hatched at the edges j flowers folitary. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement, natural fize. 



2. The Standard of the blolfom. 



3. One of the Wings of the bloffom. 



4. The two petals of the Keel. 



5. The Chives and Pointal, with part of the cup, magnified. 



6. The Seed-bud magnified. 



This Genus of plants was firft named by Dr. Smith, in the Linn. Trans. Vol. 11. 350, from the 

 P. tormolum, which he afterwards figured in the New-Holland fpecimens, Tab. VI. Our fjiecies 

 was introduced, to Britain, in the year 1792, by Me firs. Lee and Kennedy. It is a hardy green- 

 houle plant; but has not, hitherto, been increifed in this country. It muft be planted in very fandy 

 peat earth, and not much watered, in winter, as too much wet is apt to deftroy it. The young 

 branches, which in the old plant appear much more like leaves, (as feldom any leaves are produced 

 from the upper part of the plant, after a certain age,) are very tender; but in time become as tough 

 as leather, and are almoin equally pliable. Our drawing was taken in May 1/99, from a plant, 

 we believe, the firft that flowered in England, in the Hibbcrtian Colkaion. 



