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ZICHYA PANNOSA. 
(WRINKLED-LEAVED ZICHYA.) 
CLASS. 
DIADELPHIA. 
ORDER . 
DECANDRIA. 
NATURAL ORDER., 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx campanulate, two-lipped ; upper lip two-toothed, lower one three-parted. 
Vexillum of the corolla furnished with a claw, broadly roundish, emarginate, reflexed, with two ap- 
pendages at the base, or at a distance from it. Wings oblong, adhering to the middle of the keel. 
Keel incurved, obtuse, either shorter or of nearly equal length. Stamens distinct, diadelphous. 
Filaments inarticulate with the base of the standard. Anthers uniform. Sheath of the disc none. 
Ovary with many ovules. Style short, ascending, subcapitate at the top, towards the stigma, often 
terminating in a dilated or shortly appendiculate manner. Legume oblong-linear, compressed, coria- 
ceous. (Sm/sstropliiolate. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreeen shrub. Stems strong, climbing, and, as well as the leaves, 
covered with villous hairs. Leaves with long peduncles, composed of three leaflets ; leaflets oblong, 
inclining to orbicular, mucronulate, green, and covered with close-pressed, inconspicuous down on the 
upper surface ; whitish with pubescence, and having numerous prominent veins, below ; while the mid- 
rib and the lateral veins are clothed with brown hairs. Stipules awl-shaped. Calyx covered with 
dark-brown pubescence in the young state. Flowers very dense. Standard scarlet, with a yellow 
blotch near the base in the centre. Wings and keel purple. 
Zichya, so named by Baron Hugel, in compliment to the Countess Molly Zichy- 
Ferraris, now Princess Metternich, is a separation from the old genus Kennedy a, of 
which Z. coccinea (formerly K. coccinea) may be regarded as the type. Its chief apparent 
characters are that the flowers are borne on long erect axillary peduncles, are 
usually in dense umbels, and have their standard of a bright red or scarlet colour. 
Z. pannosa , the species at present figured, is somewhat allied to Z. tricolor , 
from which it is readily distinguished by having stronger stems, which are clothed 
with brown hairs towards their summits, — shorter, rounder, thicker, and more pro- 
minently nerved leaves, the stalks of which are also covered with brown pubescence, 
— a prominent dark- velvety down on the calyxes, and denser heads of flowers. 
It is a very handsome climbing plant, lately introduced by various parties from 
the Swan River settlement, Australia, and now cultivated in most nurseries. We 
