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Class and Order. 
DiapetpHia Decanpria. 
Generic Character. 
Vexillum recurvum, a carina non reflexum. Legumen 
multiloculare, polyspermum. Semina strophiolata, 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
KenNeEpIA coccinea ; caule volubili, pedunculis axillaribus 
solitariis folio ternato longioribus, floribus ecapitatis. 
Kennepia coccinea ; foliis ternatis : foliolis obovatis, flori- 
bus capitatis, leguminibus glabriusculis. Vent. Mal- 
_ mais, 105, excluso synonymo Curtisii. Hort. Kew. 
ed. alt. 4. p. 299. pes | 
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Descr. + Stem climbing, slender, rou hish. Stipules 
_ opposite, small, hairy. Leaves ternate, alternate ; leaflets 
- obovate, mucronulate, roughish above, pubescent, and 
veined underneath: very young ones narrow-ovate and 
acute. Common petiole longer than the leaflets, gibbose 
at the bottom. Peduncles axillary, solitary, longer than 
the leaf, roughened by short black hairs. Flowers about 
eight, collected in an umbel-formed capitulum, on short 
cernuous pedicles. Calyx five-toothed, clothed with black 
hairs: teeth subulate. Corolla papilionaceous : vexillum 
round-obcordate, much larger than the ale, scarlet, with a 
green, marginated spot at the base. Ale connivent, pur- 
ple, longer than the carina. Stamens diadelphous +. Ger- 
men linear: style smooth : stigma capitate. 
In the early part of this work a species of this genus 
_. was published under the name of GryctnE coccinea, which 
M. Ventenat quoted as a synonym of this; but that isa 
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