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54. KENNEDYA, Vent. 
(After Mr. Kennedy, a London nurseryman.) 
(Physolobium, Hueg.; Ziehya, Hueg.; Amphodus, Lindl.) 
Calyx-lobes about as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united in an emarginate 
or 2-toothed upper lip. Standard obovate or orbicular, narrowed into a short 
claw, with minute indexed auricles ; wings falcate, adhering to the keel ; keel 
incurved, obtuse or rather acute. Upper stamen free, the others united ; anthers 
uniform. Ovary nearly sessile or shortly stipitate, with several ovules ; style 
filiform, rarely toothed at the top, stigma terminal. Pod linear, flattened cylin- 
drical or turgid, 2-valved, more or less divided by a pithy substance between the 
seeds. Seeds ovoid or oblong, laterally attached, with a very prominent 
strophiole. — Perennials, with prostrate trailing or twining stems, usually 
pubescent or villous. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or very rarely with an 
additional pair or reduced to 1 ; leaflets entire or obscurely 3-lobed, with stipellae. 
Stipules persistent, striate or veined. Flowers red or rarely almost black, in 
racemes, umbels, pairs, or solitary on axillary peduncles. Bracts either stipule- 
like and persistent, or small and very deciduous. Bracteoles none. Disk round 
the ovary obscurely annular or none at all. 
The genus is entirely Australian, and, with Hardenbergia, distinguished amongst PluiseolecB 
by the prominently strophiolate seeds. — Bentli. 
Standard narrow-obovate. Keel almost acute. Pod compressed. Flowers 
above lin. long, racemose, red. Wings erect 1 . K. rubicunda. 
Standard broadly obovate, almost orbicular. Keel obtuse. Flowers not above 
fin. long. 
Flowers racemose. Pedicels very short. Bracts very small. (Pod 
unknown) 2 K. procurrens. 
Peduncles 1 or 2-flowered. Pedicels long. Bracts stipule-like, persistent. 
Pod cylindrical, coriaceous 3 . K. prostrata. 
Very tall climber, pubescent. Leaflets 2 to 5in. diameter. Standard obovate, 
fin. long, the free stamen sometimes if not always connate with the others 
for some distance up 4 . K. exaltata. 
1. IL rubicunda (flowers red), Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 104; Benth. FI. Anstr. 
ii. 249. A large twining species, pubescent or villous. Leaflets 3, usually ovate 
and 3 to 4in. long, but varying from broadly rhomboid obovate or almost 
orbicular to ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate and acute, the smaller ones often under 
2in. and when very luxuriant attaining 5 or Bin., rarely nearly glabrous, some- 
times softly-silky on both sides. Stipules small, striate, reflexed. Flowers of a dull 
or dark red, 1J to 1-Jin. long, in pedunculate racemes rarely exceeding the leaves. 
Pedicels usually in pairs, rather longer than the calyx. Bracts small, very 
deciduous. Calyx silky-villous, 5 to 6 lines long. Standard narrow-obovate, 
abruptly reflexed from about the middle ; wings narrow, erect, adhering to the 
keel above the middle ; keel narrow, as long as the wings, rather acute. Pod flat 
or the valves slightly convex, 2 to 4in. long, usually villous. Seeds oblong, 
almost transverse, laterally attached to a funicle protruding far into the cavity. — 
DC. Prod. ii. 383 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 954 ; Glycine rubicunda , Curt. Bot. Mag. 
t. 268; Amphodus ovatus, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1101; Kennedya phaseoli/olia, 
Hoffm. from the descr. in Linmea, xvi. Litt. Ber. 281. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay, Fraser, F. v. Mueller, and others ; Wide Bay, Bidwill ; Ipswich, Nernst. 
Common in south Queensland, and from thence to Rockingham Bay. 
2. K. procurrens (running), Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 365 and FI. 
Austr. ii. 249. Stems prostrate, pubescent or villous. Leaflets 3, ovate or 
elliptical, obtuse or mucronate, 1 to 2in. long, rugose, slightly pubescent above, 
more so underneath. Stipules broadly lanceolate, reflexed. Flowers rather 
above Jin. long, in a short raceme at the end of a rather long peduncle, Bracts 
