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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



emarginate, lower trifid, equal ; standard reflexed and recurved ; 

 wings pressed to the keel ; keel remote ; stigma blunt ; pod ob- 

 long. 



This handsome genus is named after a Mr. Kennedy, and 

 the species are very beautiful climbers for the greenhouse, 

 particularly adapted for covering trellis- work or pillars. 

 K. Marry attce, named after Mrs. Marryatt, of Wimbledon, 

 was introduced from the Swan Eiver. Its flowers are of a 

 pretty scarlet colour, with a little rose and yellow mixed ; 

 these flowers are produced in profusion in the early part of 

 summer, making it a very desirable species. K. nigri- 

 cans is a native of New South Wales, its foliage is small, 

 and the flowers very dark, with a patch of yellow ; K. longi- 

 racemosa has rose-coloured flowers, which appear in spring ; 

 K. rubicunda has dingy crimson flowers; jorostrata and 

 coccinea, scarlet; these were formerly considered as Gly- 

 cines. These beautiful plants are of easy culture, thriving 

 best in peat-earth and loam very well drained, and are in- 

 creased by cuttings and also by seeds, which they produce 

 freely. Some beautiful species have been separated from 

 this genus to form the following genera : — Hardenbergia, 

 containing the species monophylla (a beautiful plant w 7 ith 

 bright purple flowers, of which there is a variety called Ion- 



