Platylophus
(from platys, broad, and lophos, a crest; the capsule is so much compressed at the apex as to appear winged). SYN. Trimerisma. ORD. Saxi-frageae. A monotypic genus. The species is an elegant, greenhouse, glabrous, evergreen tree, thriving best in a compost of loam and peat. Propagated, during April or May, by cuttings of ripe shoots, inserted in sand under a glass.
P. trifoliata (three-leaved). White Alder. fl. white, disposed in axillary, long-stalked, many-flowered panicles. June. l. petiolate, ternate; leaflets sessile, lanceolate, acuminated, sharply serrated, coriaceous, reticulated with many veins. h. 40ft. to 50ft. Cape of Good Hope, 1820. SYN. Weinmannia trifoliata.