248 XL. LEGUMiNOS^. IXcnned^a. 



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rarely with an additional pair or reduced to 1 ; leaflets entire or obscurely 3- 

 lobed, with stipellse. Stipules persistent, striate or veined, ■ Flowers red or 

 rarely almost black, in racemes, umbels, pairs, or solitary on axillary pedun- 

 cles. Bracts either stipule-like and persistent, or small and very deciduous. 

 Eracteoles none. Disk round the ovary obscurely annular or none at all. 



The genus is entirely Australian, and, with Hardenheryia, distmgui&hed araotigst l^ha- 

 seoJea: by the prominently strophiolate seeds. I had formerly divided it into 3 genera, 

 which, as far as the materials we then had could show, appeared quite distinct, viz. Ken- 

 nedt/a, with a narrow standard and flat pods ; Fhysoloh'mm^ with an orbicular standard, 

 fluwcrs in pairs, and a turgid pod; and Zickya, with au orhicular standard, flowers umbel- 

 late, and a flat pod; but the numerous additional specimens and some new species since ex- 

 amined, show that the above characters are too variously combined to be relied on eveu 

 for good sections, and that the forms which I had considered as constituting several species 

 of each genus were in many instances not even varieties. Taking the standard and the pod 

 as the primary character, the species might be arranged as follows: — 



Standard narrow-obovate. Pod flat (Kennedya). — 1. K, nigricans ; 2. K.ruhicmda. 



Standard broadly-obovate. Pod cylindrical. — i. K. jjrostrata. 



Standard orbicular. Pod flat (Zichya).— 5. K, eximia ; 6. K. cocmiea ; 7. K, mI- 

 CTophylla, 



Standard orbicular. Pod turgid (Physolobium). — 8. K , 'parviflora ; 9. K . Stirlingii ; 

 10. K, glahrata; 11. K. macrojphylla. 



But these groups are not natural, and where the fruit is unknown, as in the case of -ff- 

 pTocurrens^ the place of a species cannot be fixed. 



Standard narrow-obovate. Keel almost acute. Pod compressed. 

 Flowers above 1 in. long, racemose. 



llowers nearly black, in a one-sided raceme. "Wings spreading at 



the top \ \. K, nigricans. 



Flowers red. Wings erect i, K, rublcunda^ 



Standard broadly-obovate, almost orbicular. Keel obtuse, flowers 

 not above f in. long. 



. Flowers racemose. Pedicels \^ry short. Bracts very small. (Pod 



unknown) 3. ^. procurrens. 



Peduncles 1- or 2- flowered. Pedicels long. Bracts stipule-like, per- 

 sistent. Pod cylindrical, coriaceous 4. X. prostrata. 



Flowers umbellate, usually few. Bracts sma'll, "very deciduous. 



Pod narrow, flat, with a thickened upper suture 5. X exima^ 



Standard orbicular or broader than long. Flowers rarely above i in- 

 long. 



Flowers umbellate or shortly racemose. Bracts small, very de- 

 ciduous. 



Stipules broad, leafy. Keel about* as long as the wings. 



Pod narrow, flat with a thickened upper suture. Flowers um- , . 



bellate, xisually few. Keel obtuse 6. Jf. eximia^ 



Pod very turgid. 



Flowers umbellate or nearly so. Leaflets cuncate. Keel 



almost acuminate 10. K.gletb^'^^^- 



Flowers distinctly racemose. Leaflets obovate or orbicular. , .* 



Keel obtuse 11. K, macrojihjjU^' 



Stipules very small. Keel considerably shorter 'than the'wings. 



Flowers umbellate . • • 6. iT. cocci^^^- 



Peduncles 1- or 2-flovvered, or with 2 rarely' 3 pairs oV flowers.* * > iiu 



Bracts small, very deciduous. Flowers small, solitary. Pod flat. 7. -ST. microphym* 

 Bracts broad, stipule-like, persistent. Pod very turgid. 



Peduncles usually l-flowered. Pod under 1 in. long ... 8. K.parviflora. 



Pedimcles mostly with 1, 2, or 3 pairs of flowers. Pod above . ,. .. 



1 in. long ^ Q. K. Slirhnpi' 



