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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



The name is supposed to be a Latinized form of a Hebrew 

 word. This is an extensive genus of plants from various 

 parts of the world ; many are introduced into the stove, a 

 few are tolerably hardy, and the following are showy for the 

 greenhouse : — C, corymbosa, Australis, Barclay ana, obovata, 

 Capensis y Marylandica, and several others. Cuttings should 

 be put in sand and covered by a hand-glass; they root 

 freely in moist heat. 



PLATYLOBIUM. (Flat Pea.) 



Gen. Char. (BiadelpJiia Decandria.) Calyx bracteate, two* 

 lipped, upper lip round, large, and bifid ; stamens all united ; 

 pod stalked, compressed, winged at the back, many-seeded. 



Named from the Greek for broad and pod, in allusion to 

 the form of the seed-vessel. Australian plants of consi- 

 derable beauty, of which the species Murrayanum is very 

 striking ; the flowers are very numerous, and only expand 

 their vivid orange petals in the daytime, closing them at 

 night : obttisangulatum has its flowers larger than the last, 

 and the lobes of the calyx particularly so ; " the standard of 

 the flower is, in the inside, of a bright orange with a red 

 ray in the centre, outside, red with a broad, grey-brown 



