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250 XL. LEGUMINOS^. [Ktiiuedf/a. 



Queensland. Mount Kennedy, on tlie Maranoa, M'dchell. Only a single specimen 

 seen, unless one without flowers from Keppcl Bay, R, Brown^ belongs to the same species. 



4. K. prostrata, -K. Br, in Alt. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 299. Steras 

 prostrate or sometimes twining in the large variety^ pubescent or hirsute. 

 Leaflets 3, broadly obovate or orbicular, under 1 in. long in the ordinary va- 

 riety, often unduU^te, pubescent or hirsute. Stipules leafy, broadly cordate, 

 acute or acuminate, free or united. Peduncles i- or 2-flo\vered, rarely with 

 2 pairs of flowers. Pedicels usually longer than the calyx, with stipule-like 

 bracts at the base. Flowers scarlet, nearly f in. long. Calyx pubescent, about 

 4 lines long. Standard obovate ; keel incurved, obtuse ; wings much nanower 

 and rather shorter, adhering only near the base. Pod nearly cylindrical^ very 

 coriaceous, pubescent, 1|- to 2 in. long. Seeds attached by a very short 

 funicle. — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 101; Glycine coccinea. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 

 270. 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson R. Brown, SiebeTj n. 377» and others, 



Victoria. Very common throughout the colony, F, Mueller, 



Tasmania. Port Ualrymple, R, Brown ; abundant throughout the island in dry and 

 stony places, etc., /. j9. Hooker. 



S. Australia. Lofty Ranges and Spencer's Gulf, F. Mndler. 



^V. Australia. S. coast, E. of King George's Sound, MaxicelL 



Var. major, DC. Larger and usually more hirsute, sometimes twining. Leaves ovate or 

 rhomboidal, much undulate, often attaming 2 in. Stipules often very large, attaining cvea 

 1 in. diameter. Pod above 2 iu. long. — K. bracieata. Gaud, in Ereyc. Vo\\_286, t. 113; 

 MeissD 

 Lindl 



nana 

 Murch 



Herb. Mus. Far. 



6.^ K. eximia, UndL in Paxt, Mag, xvi. 35, with a jig. Prostrate or 

 twining, silky-villous or at length nearly glabrous. Leaflets 3, ovate, or 

 obovate and all under 1 iu. long, or, in luxuriant specimens, broader, very 

 obtuse, and fully \\ in. long. Stipules broad, leafy, acute, veined. Flowers 

 scarlet, not above 7 or 8 lines long, 2, 3 or more together in an umbel or 

 y^x-^ short raceme. Bracts very deciduous. Calvx usually silky-viHous, 

 about 3 lines long, with lobes shorter than the tube/but liable to become en- 

 larged and leafy. Standard very broadly obovate or almost orbicular, but 

 not so broad as in the several following species ; keel much curved, obtuse ; 

 wings fully as long, but not so broad. Pod glabrous or slightly pubescent, 

 usually curved, 1^ to 2 in. long, narrow and much flattened, with the upper 



Coll. n. 91, and Snppl. n. 45; moist places, Gales 

 lirook, and Phillips ranges, Maxwell. This species has the stipules of rhjsolohwn, in 

 pod of Zlchtja, and in the shape of the tlower is intermediate between that and K-prosdaia. 



6. K. coccinea. Vent, Jard, Malm. 1 105. Twining or trailing, always ^ 

 pubescent rusty or silky-villous, and often densely so. Leaflets 3 or jeiy 

 rarely 5, the additional pair lower down, usually ovate or oblong, very obtus 

 and under 2 ia. long, but varving from broadly ovate to narrow-oblonp, 

 entire or slightly sinuately 3-lobed. Stipules very small. Flowers scariei^ 

 about \ in.-Iong, several together in an umbid or very short uiubcl-like racei^^ 

 x)n long axillary peduncles, with 1 or 2 small deciduous bracts at then' oa^ ■ 



suture thickened. Seeds smaU. 



