PLATE CCLXVI.
PLATYLOBIUM OVATUM.
Oval-leaved Flat-Pea.
CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Chives in two Sets. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calyx campanulatus, quinquefidus; laciniis duabus supremis maximis, obtusis. Stamina omnia coalita. Legumen pedicillatum, compressum, dorso alatum, polyspermum.
Cup bell-shaped, five-cleft; the two upper segments very large and obtuse. The Chives all united. Pod on a foot-stalk, compressed, winged along the back, many seeded.
See Platylobium scolopendrum. Pl. CXCI. Vol. III.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Platylobium foliis ovatis, glaberrimis, distichis; floribus solitariis, axillaribus; ramis teretibus.
Flat-Pea with egg-shaped leaves, very smooth and pointing opposite ways; flowers grow solitary from the insertion of the leaves; branches cylinder-shaped.