Calyx campanulatus, quinquesidus; laciniis duabus supremis maximis, obtusis. Stamina omnia coalita. Legumen pedicellatum, compressum, dorso alatum; polyspermum.
Cup bell-shaped, five-cleft; the two upper segments very large and obtuse. Chives all united. Pod on a footstalk, compressed, winged along the back; many seeded.
See Plate CXCI. Vol. III. Platylobium scolopendrum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Platylobium foliis glaberrimis, distichis, lineari-lanceolatis; floribus solitariis, axillaribus; ramis junioribus sub-compressis.
Flat-Pea with very smooth leaves pointing opposite ways, linear-lance shaped; flowers grow solitary from the lower part of the leaves close to the branches; the younger branches are rather flatish.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement of the flower.
2. The Standard, or upper petal of the blossom.
3. One of the Wings, or side petals of the blossom.