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PLATYLOBIUM formosum.

Orange Flat-Pea.


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DIADELPHIA Decandria. Stamina all connected together.

Gen. Char. Cal. campanulatus, quinquefidus; laciniis duabus supremis maximis, obtusis. Legumen pedicellatum, compressum, dorso alatum, polyspermum.

Cal. campanulate, five-cleft; two upper segments very large and obtuse. Pod on a footstalk, compressed, winged along the back; seeds many.


Spec. Char. P. foliis cordato-ovatis, germine piloso.

Leaves cordato-ovate. Germen hairy.


Syn. Platylobium formosum. Linn. Trans. Vol. II. 350.
Cheilococca apocynifolia. Salisb. Prod. 412.