252 ^i-- LEGUMINOS-E. [Keuuediia. 



pubesceut pods). The smaller specimens of this species have a distinct aspect, with the pe- 

 duncles almost all 1-flowered ; the larger ones seem almost to pass into K. Stiylingii. 

 K. phi/solobioidesy Walp. Ann. i. 251, from the diagnosis given, is probably this species. 



9. K. Stirlingii, LindL Bot. Reg. t, 1845. Trailing or twining^ to a 

 considerable length, hairy with soft spreading or silky hairs. Leaflets 3, 

 ovate or orbicular, very obtuse, usually above 1 in. long. Stipules broadly 

 cordate, usually large and much veined. Flowers scarlet, usually in 1, 2. or 

 3 pairs, on axillary peduncles, the pedicels long and slender, with persistent 

 stipular leafy bracts at their base. Calyx 3 to 3^ lines long, hirsute. Stan- 

 dard orbicular, fully \ in. diameter^; keel broad, much incurved, very obtuse, 

 nearly as long as the wings. Pod 1 to 2 in. long, very turgid, coriaceous. 

 Fuuicle of the seeds very short. — Physolobifmi elatum^ llucg. Bot, Arch. t. 2 \ 

 Benth. in Hueg. Enum! 39, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 124 ; Mcissn. in PL 

 Prciss. i. 92 ; -P. Slirllngil^ Benth, 1. c. 



VST. Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Dnimtnond, n. 270 j Pre'iss, n. 1087, W89. 



10. K. glabrata, LindL in Bot. Reg. t. 1838. A slender twining spe- 

 cies, glabrous or with a few spreading hairs. Leaflets 3, cuneate or obovate- 

 truncate, mucronate, i to 1 in. long. Stipules broad, veined. Flowers 

 scarlet, several together in a small umbel on axillary peduncles. Bracts none 

 or very deciduous. Calyx scarcely 3 lines long, the lobes short, the upper 

 ones forming an obtuse emarginate upper lip. Standard orbicular, about 5 

 Hues diameter; wings much falcate; keel much incurved, almost acute or 

 shortly acuminate. Pod glabrous, 'very turgid, under 1 in. long. — Zichya 

 glabrata, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 40, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 123 ; Bot. 

 Mag. 1.3956. 



"W. Australia. King George's Sound, Baxter, This species has the habit and inflo- 

 rescence of Zichya with the pod of Pkf/soiobium, and may be generally known wlica m 

 flower by the foliage and keel. 



IL K. macrophylla^ Benth. A tall, coarse, twining species, loosely 

 hirsute with spreading hairs, silky on the young shoots. Leaflets 3, obovate 

 or orbicular, very obtuse, often above 2 in. long. Stipnlcs very broad, oiteii 

 united and attaining 1 in. in diameter; stipelloe lanceolate. Flowers re , 

 distinctly racemose on axillary peduncles. Bracts deciduous. Pedicels ra- 

 ther short. Calyx not 3 lines long, with short lobes, as in X ghm-^ 

 [Standard orbicular, nearly \ in. diameter; keel much curved, obtuse, near) 

 as long as the wings. Pod glabrous, very turgid, about 1| in- 'oi^S' *1^^^ p,' 

 nate with the persistent style, — Phgsolobiinn viacrophyllnm, Meissu. m. 

 Preiss. ii. 222 ; Kennedya laterilia^ F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 78, 



"W. Australia, Brtimmond, 2nd Colt, n, 118. With the pod and aspect otPhj/soo- 

 hium, this species has the inflorescence of the trne Kennedyas, 



54. ERYTHRINA, Linn. 



y Calyx campanulate or cylindrical, obliquely truncate or slit on '^"^ ^^^^.^ 



side, entire or toothed. Standard broad or long, erect or recurved, n^^ 

 rowed at the base, without appendages ; wings short, often minute oi n ' 

 keel short, the petals united or free. Stamens all united at the ''|!^*!' ^^ 

 upper one often free froii; the middle ; anthers rcniform. Ovary stipi t 



