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KENNEDIA COCCINEA ELEGANS. 
(ELEGANT SCARLET KENNEDIA.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
LKGUM1XOS/E, 
Generic Character Calyx two-lipped, upper two-toothed, lower three-toothed. Corolla papi- 
lionaceous, upper petal (vexillum) bent back . Wings pressed close to the keel. Legume linear, 
compressed. 
Specific Character. — A climbing shrub, ten to twelve feet high. Leaves in threes (lernate). 
Leaflets betwixt oblong and egg-shaped. Flowers in bunches. Calyx brownish-green. Corolla 
showy, upper petal bright orange-scarlet with a yellow base. Wings carmine colour. Keel 
purple-brown, covered with the wings. Pods smoothish. 
Variety elegans.* — Whole of the Corolla a bright orange-scarlet, and other differences, as seen on 
the plate. 
This is a charming variety of the K. coccinea, and deserves the most extensive 
cultivation. It grows delicate, and is well suited for climbing up a pillar in a 
conservatory, where it will flower to perfection. A mixture of sandy loam and 
peat is the best compost for it. It strikes freely from cuttings in sand under a 
bell glass, and the pots plunged in a little hes 
