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KENNEDYA* inophylla. 
Close-headed Kennedya. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosz Juss.—(Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 86.) 
KENNEDYA.—Supra, vol. 11. p. 944. 
$ 2. Foliis 3-foliolatis, cariná vexillo et alis breviore. De C. | 
K. inophylla ; foliolis 3 cuneatis mucronatis basi attenuatis suprà pilosius- 
culis subtús sericeis, stipulis ovatis acutis, pedunculis foliis longioribus 
flores 15-20 densé umbellato-capitatos apice gerentibus. 
K. inophylla. Hort. 
Caulis fruticosus, scandens. Folia in genere magna, 3-foliolata, foliolis 
cuneatis, basi attenuatis, apice mucronatis v. cuspidatis, suprà atroviridibus, 
pilosiusculis, infra sericeis, pallidioribus. Stipule ovate, acute, sericee ; 
stipellee subulate. Pedunculi rigidi, erecti, pilis nigris parce vestiti. Flores 
15-20, in capitulo subumbellato dens? congesti. Calyx pilis nigris appressis 
densissimé tectus, bilabiatus, labio superiore bilobo, inferiore _tridentato. 
Vexillum basi maculá pallidó vridi instructum, alis et carind longius. 
Stamina diadelpha. Stigma capitatum. 
This fine species appears to have been first raised from 
New Holland seeds in the Royal Gardens at Kew. Mr. 
Low, in whose Nursery our drawing was made, informs us 
that it was received from Mr. Aiton, in exchange for other 
New Holland plants, about five years ago, under the name 
of Kennedya inophylla. The plant from which the figure 
was taken had been struck from a cutting about eighteen 
months previous; in July 1830 it was planted in a border 
of sandy peat and loam, in a propagating house which 
stands fronting the north; and in April 1831 it had ac- 
quired the height of four feet, and was covered with 
* Named after Mr. Kennedy, late partner in the firm of Messrs. Lee and 
Kennedy, Nurserymen, Hammersmith. 
