'220 Key to the System of 



Petals wholly pink or dark-reddish or pale. 



Herb, generally rather tall ; leaflets from broad -linear to 

 obovate ; flowers several in each umbel ; lobes of the 

 calyx longer than the tube ; fruit usually rather long, 

 slender, straight. L. Australia. 



TRIGONELLA. 



1033. Flowers in axillary sessile clusters. 



A small diffuse herb, almost or quite glabrous ; leaflets from 

 obovate- to orbicular-obcordate ; petals yellowish ; fruit 

 compressed, several times longer than broad, slightly 

 pointed, somewhat flexuous, superficially marked by 

 reticulating venules. Figure 47. T. suavissima. 



K.ENNEDYA. 



1031 Leaves reduced to a single leaflet. 



Twining, tall or sometimes prostrate, glabrous ; leaflets 

 from broadly ovate to elliptic-laiiceolar, comparatively 

 large, flat, of very firm texture ; flowers very small, 

 numerous in each raceme ; petals blue or far less 

 commonly white ; fruit rather long, narrow, much com- 

 pressed. K. monophylla. 



Leaves consisting of three leaflets ... ... ... 1035 



1035. Flowers several on each stalk. 



Twining, tall, much beset with brownish hairlets ; leaflets 

 from orbicular-ovate to elliptic-lanceolar, comparatively 

 large, of firm texture ; flowers very large, in racemes ; 

 petals crimson, hardly ever white ; fruit long, much 

 compressed. X. rubicunda. 



Flowers generally only one or two on each stalk. 



Prostrate ; leaflets from orbicular to ovate, comparatively 

 small, of herbaceous texture, somewhat crisped ; flowers 

 rather large ; petals crimson, rarely pale or white ; fruit 

 nearly cylindrical, slightly compressed. 



K. prostrata. 



OLYCINE. 



1036. Lateral leaflets close to the upper one ... ... 1037 



Lateral leaflets somewhat distant from the upper one 1038 



