PLATE CCLXVl. 



PLATYLOBIUM OVATUM. 



. Oval-leaved Flat-Pea. 



CLASS XVIL ORDER IV. 

 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Chives in two Sets. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx campanulatus, quinquefidus; laciniis 

 duabus fuprernis maxirais, obtufis. Stamina 

 omnia coalita. Legumen pedicillatum, 

 comprcflfum, dorfo alatum, polyipermum. 



Cup bellfhaped, five-cleft; tlie two upper leg- 

 ments very large and obtufe. The Chives 

 all united. Pod on a foot-llalk, comprefled, 

 winged along the back, many feeded. 



See Platyloeium scolopendrum. Pl.CXCI. 

 Vol. III. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Platylobium foliis ovatis, glaberrimis, diftichis ; 

 floribus folitariis, axillaribus; ramis tere- 

 tibus. 



Flat-Pea with egg-fliaped leaves, very fmooth 

 and pointing oppofite ways ; flowers grow 

 folitary from the infertion of the leaves; 

 branches cylinder-fliaped. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The Empalement of the Flower. 



2. The Standard, or upper petal of the bloffom. 



3. One of the Wings, or fide petals of the fame. 



4. The two lower Petals, or Keel of the bloffom. 



5. The Chives, magnified. 



6. The Seed-bud, magnified. 



This fpecies of Flat-Pea was brought from New South Wales, at the fame time as P. fcolopendrum, 

 and P. lanceolatum, to which laft it has much affinity; but, we think, poffeffes a fufficient number of 

 differing characters to conftitute a diftindt fpecies. It has not as j'et been increafed, we believe, in 

 Britain; any attempt, to that end, has hitherto proved abortive; from which circumftance the plants 

 are at prefent fcarce, and are to be found in few collections. The fame treatment to preferve, and 

 render the plant flourifhing, is required for this, as for the other fpecies. Our Drawing was made in 

 1 801, at the Nurfery of Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, who firft introduced it. 



