blunt, and bearing a minute point at the end of the mid-rib, green on 
both sides, smooth on the upper side, about half an inch diameter. 
Stiputes broadly ovate, or cordate, pointed, often slightly connate, 
of the same consistence and hairiness as the leaflets. PEDUNCLES ax- 
illary, few-flowered, the common stalk very short and dichotomously 
divided into two, three, or four long slender pedicels. Bracts at the 
ramifications of the peduncle, and in the middle of the pedicels, oppo- 
site, leafy like the stipules, but smaller. Catyx hairy, deeply divided 
into four lobes, of which the upper one is broad and two-cleft, the lower 
ones narrow, pointed, and entire.. Coroxta about the size of that of 
Zichya coccinea, smooth. StTaNnparp of arich crimson, with a yellow 
spot in the centre, at the base of which are two slightly prominent cal- 
losities. Wines and Krrt somewhat lighter coloured, the keel full as 
long as the wings, very broad, and suddenly curved at the top, very 
blunt at the end. Pop from half an inch to three quarters long, much 
_ swollen, hairy. 
Porutar aNnD GeoeraruicaL Notice. The genera Hardenbergia 
and Zichya, lately separated from Kennedya, and the latter genus, as 
now limited, have already been illustrated in this work, (see Botanist, 
v. 2, No. 84.) The plant, now figured is one of a fourth genus allied 
_ to them, but readily distinguished by habit as well as by botanical char- 
acter. The colour and form of its flower are those of a Zichya, but the 
peduncles are few-flowered and loosely dichotomous, not umbellate, 
and the pod is inflated, as in Crotalaria or Baptisia. The inflorescence 
is that of a true Kennedya, but the form of the flower, as well as the 
pod, are very different. There are three or four species known, all 
from the south-west coast of Australia. G. B. 
InTRopUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CunTuRE. This species was first 
gathered by Baron Charles von Hugel, on the coast of King George’s 
Sound, and it is believed, was raised by him, at his establishment, 
at Hietzing, near Vienna, from seeds he had brought home. It was 
again received from Port Augusta by the Horticultural Society, and 
flowered this spring for the first time. It appears to grow freely under 
the usual treatment of Australian Papilionacez, and sets its seeds more 
abundantly than most species of the Kennedya tribe. Our wy ted 
was made at the Society’s garden. 
pa or THE | NAMES. 
from ¢uoaw, to a pod, in reft to the infla- 
ted pod, Carinatum from the tee keel of the species. 
SYNONYME. | 
Puysotopium cARINATUM. Bentham: in Hiigel’s Enumeratio, p. 39. 
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