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[Kennedy a. 
small. Pedicels short. Calyx about 2f lines long, the lobes shorter than the 
tube. Standard broadly obovate, emarginate ; keel rather narrow, obtuse ; wings 
narrower and scarcely so long. Pod not seen. 
Hab.: Mount Kennedy, on the Maranoa, Mitchell. 
Only a single specimen seen, unless one without flowers from Keppel Bay, R. Brown, belongs 
to the same species. — Benth. 
3. E. prostrata (prostrate), R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew ed. 2, iv. 299 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. ii. 250. Stems prostrate or sometimes twining in the large variety, 
pubescent or hirsute. Leaflets 3, broadly obovate or orbicular, under lin. long in 
the ordinary variety, often undulate, pubescent or hirsute. Stipules leafy, broadly 
cordate, acute, or acuminate, free or united. Peduncles 1 or 2-flowered, rarely 
with 2 pairs of flowers. Pedicels usually longer than the calyx, with stipule-like 
bracts at the base. Flowers scarlet, nearly fin. long. Calyx pubescent, about 4 
lines long. Standard obovate ; keel incurved, obtuse ; wings much narrower and 
rather shorter, adhering only near the base. Pod nearly cylindrical, very 
coriaceous, pubescent, If to 2in. long. Seeds attached by a very short funicle. — 
Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 101 ; Glycine coccinea, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 270. 
Hab.: Inland, south-west Queensland. 
4. K. ? exaltata (a tall climber), Bail. Ql. Agri. Journ., July 1897, 
and Oct. 1899. A robust pubescent climber, according to Mr. E. Cowley, attain- 
ing to the tops of tall trees. Stems hairy Stipules oblong-lanceolate, 7 or 8 
lines long, including the portion (about 3 lines) produced below the insertion, 
clothed with appressed hairs ; stipellte very narrow and the lower ones rather long. 
Petioles about 4 or 5in., petiolules from 1 to lfin. long. Leaflets 3, somewhat 
orbicular in outline, 2 to 5in. diameter, the lateral ones 2, the terminal usually 
broadly 3-lobed, the midrib of each lobe ending in a bristle-like point, pale on the 
under surface. Racemes axillary ; peduncle somewhat flattened, about 3in. long, 
bearing about the centre a hairy lanceolate bract ; raceme or portion bearing the 
flowers about as long as the peduncle. Flowers solitary or in pairs (violet- 
coloured and very attractive, E. Cowley). Pedicels about 2f lines long, curved, 
hairy. Calyx-tube gibbous, very hairy outside and slightly so inside, long as the 
pedicel ; the 2 upper lobes united to the end, 3f lines long ; lateral ones about the 
same length, but more acute ; the lower or keel lobe about 6 lines long, somewhat 
acute. Standard obovate, about fin. long, with 2 auricles at the base of the 
lamina ; claw short, the wing and keel petals about as long as the standard, all 
obtuse. The free stamen sometimes, if not always, connate for some distance 
up with the others. Ovary stipitate, hairy ; upper portion of the style glabrous. 
Stigma terminal. Pod straight, 4in. long, fin. broad, convex on both sides, silky 
outside, glabrous inside with transverse partitions slightly constricted between the 
seeds ; seeds 6 or 7 in each pod, almost lens-formed, about 4 lines diameter, 
light-brown, stropliiole not large. 
Hab.: Scrubs of the Barron Biver, E. Cowley, 1897 ; pod specimens, Atherton, J. F. 
Bailey, 1899. 
The flowers upon the specimens received being all more or less injured by insects, the 
peculiarity noticed in the stipules and stamens may, when better known, cause this plant to be 
removed out of the genus in which I now place it ; but with the material to hand I can do 
nothing better with it. 
55. ERYTHRINA, Linn. 
(Flowers red.) 
Calyx campanulate or cylindrical, obliquely truncate or slit on the upper side, 
entire or toothed. Standard broad or long, erect or recurved, narrowed at the 
base, without appendages ; wings short, often minute or none; keel short, the 
petals united or free. Stamens all united at the base, the upper one often free 
