1715 



* KENNl&DYA nigricans. 

 Dingy -flowered Kennedya. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminos.e. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, p. 86.) 



KENNEDYA. Supra, vol. 11, fol. 944. 



§. 1. Foliis 3-foliolatis, carind rectd vexillo sublovgiore. D. C. 



K. 7iigricans ; foliolis ovato-oblongis obtusis solitariis ternatisve, racemis slm- 

 pllcibus, floribus erectis, calycibus villosis basi angustatis. 

 Frutex volubills, facie K. rubicundaj ; sed foliola latiora, obtusiora, scepe 



solitaria, mugis reticulata, ra.cemi simplices 7iec paniculati ; ^oves erecti, se- 



cundi, quasi resupinati, nee penduli ; calyces multo angustiores et vAllosiores ; 



demum petala purpureo-nigra maculd oblongd viridi in discum vexilli. 



A fine addition to the species of green-house twiners, 

 native of New Holland, where its seeds were collected by 

 Dr. Nisbet. Our specimens were supplied from the garden 

 of Boyd Miller, Esq. of Collier's Wood, near Mitcham. 



It is very near K. rubicunda, from which it differs not 

 only in the remarkable colour of the petals, but also in its 

 broader and more reticulated leaves, and in its much more 

 compact inflorescence, the flowers of which stand erect, in- 

 stead of being pendulous, as in that species. It flowers in 

 April. 



* See folio 1421. 



