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XLIII. LEGUMINOS^E. 
[Hardenberyia. 
herbs or undershrubs. Leaves of 1, 3, or 5 entire stipellate leaflets. Stipules 
small, striate. Flowers small, violet, white or pinkish, with a yellowish or 
greenish spot on the standard, in axillary racemes, the pedicels usually in pairs 
or small clusters. Bracts small, deciduous or rarely persistent. Bracteoles none. 
A small genus limited to Australia and distinguished from Kennedya by the short calyx-teeth 
and (except the doubtful H. retusa) by the small keel, and still more by the habit and numerous 
small flowers of a very different colour, giving it more the aspect of a Glycine than of a true 
Kennedya.— Benth. 
Leaflets cordate ovate lanceolate or linear, solitary. Keel much shorter 
than the wings. Pod flat, with dry pulp inside 1. H. monophylla. 
Leaflets obovate, truncate, obcordate, or broadly 2-lobed. Keel rather 
shorter than the wings 2. H. retusa. 
1. XI. monophylla (one leaflet), Benth. in Huey. Enum. 41, and FI. Austr. 
ii. 246. Leaflets always solitary, usually ovate or lanceolate, 2 to 3 or even 4in. 
long, obtuse or rather acute, often coriaceous and strongly reticulate, but varying 
from broadly cordate-ovate to narrow-lanceolate, more or less cordate or rounded 
at the base, articulate on a petiole of J to lin. Flowers usually numerous, about 
5 lines long, on pedicels rather longer than the calyx, in pairs or rarely 3 together, 
the upper racemes often forming a terminal panicle. Calyx about 1J line long. 
Pod sessile, flat, attaining about If in., coriaceous, more or less filled between the 
seeds with a pithy pulp. Seeds very oblique, almost transverse. — Maund, 
Botanist, t. 84 ; Glycine bimaculata, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 263 ; Kennedya mono- 
phylla, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 106 ; DC. Prod. ii. 384 ; Bot. Beg. t. 1336 ; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 758; K. lotiyiracemosa, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1940; K. ovata, Sims, Bot. 
Mag. t. 2169; DC. Prod. ii. 384; K. cordata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 944; Harden- 
bergia monophylla, and H. ovota, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 124 ; Hook. f. FI. 
Tasm. ii. 361 ; H. cordata, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 124. 
Hab.: Common in southern Queensland. 
Var. ovata (H. ovata, Benth.) Differs in that it is not so decided a trailer, but often forms a 
compact erect shrub, with broadly ovate-cordate leaves. — Stanthorpe, and the hills about that 
southern locality. 
2. H. retusa (leaflets blunt at the end), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 247. 
“ Kong- an,” Cooktown, “ Ru,” Batavia River, Both. A tall twiner, the young 
shoots and inflorescence silky-pubescent, the foliage at length glabrous, the 
branches usually angular. Leaflets 3, broadly obovate-truncate, obcordate or 
broadly and obtusely 2-lobed, the midrib usually produced into a short point, If 
to 3in. long, somewhat coriaceous, rather shining above, pale underneath. 
Stipules ovate or lanceolate, striate, reflexed. Flowers like those of the other 
species, or rather larger and more numerous, usually several together in each 
cluster, the rhachis of the cluster sometimes slightly developed, the racemes axil- 
lary or in terminal panicles as in the other species. Calyx about 2 lines long, 
hoary-pubescent, the teeth very short and obtuse. Standard nearly 5 lines 
diameter, broad and emarginate ; wings nearly as long, falcate ; keel rather 
shorter, much incurved, obtuse. Ovary nearly sessile, with about 10 ovules. 
Style rather thickened and indexed at the base, then straight and slender, with a 
small terminal stigma. Pod broadly linear, flattened, silky-villous, about 2fin. 
long, without pithy partitions inside. Seeds strophiolate. — Dolichos obcordatus, 
A. Cunn. Herb.; Glycine retusa, Soland. mss. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solancler, A. Cunningham ; Dunk Island, M‘Gillivray ; 
Albany Island, F. v. Mueller; Cape York, W. Hill. 
The keel is rather larger than in the other species, but the other characters and habit are 
quite those of Hardenhergia. — Benth. 
Roots roasted, and hammered on a stone before being eaten. — Both, 
