Like most of the Cape plants, it requires the shelter of a green-house
during the winter.




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~Lathyrus odoratus. Sweet Pea, or Vetchling.~


_Class and Order._

~Diadelphia Decandria.~

_Generic Character._

_Stylus_ planus, supra villosus, superne latior. _Cal._ laciniæ
superiores 2-breviores.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

LATHYRUS _odoratus_ pedunculis bifloris, cirrhis diphyllis, foliolis
ovato-oblongis, leguminibus hirsutis, _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 663._

LATHYRUS distoplatyphyllos hirsutus mollis, magno et peramæno flore
odoro. _Comm. hort. 2. p. 219. t. 80._

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