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KENNEDYA coccinea. 
Many-flowered Scarlet Kennedya. 
Linnean Class and Order, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSZE. DC. prodr. 2, p. 93, 
Subordo I. PAPILIONACE.—Tribus V. PHASEOLE®, Corolla papilionacea. 
Stamina monadelpha aut sxpits diadelpha (9 et 1). Legumen polyspermum dehiscens 
continuum membranis cellulosis transversis inter semina sitis sepé subdivisum non 
veré articulatum. Radicula super loborum commissuram inflexa. Cotyledones crasse 
per germinationem immutate aut in folia crassa vix stomatibus donata converse, ex- 
tra terram et szpiis extra spermodermium exserte. Folia primordialia opposita ! 
omnium foliola numero imparia sepils pinnatim, rarins palmatim disposita. DC, 
prodr. 2. p. 381. 
KENNEDYA. Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore bidentato, inferiore trifido 
zequali. Corolla papilionacea, vexillo recurvo a carina non reflexo. Stamina diadel- 
pha. Stigma obtusum, Legumen lineare compressum isthmis cellulosis transversé 
multiloculare. Semina strophiolata.—Frutices Nove Hollandie volubiles. Pedunculi 
axillares. Flores rubri aut violacei, vexillo basi bimaculato, DC. 1.¢. p. 383. 
§.2. Foliis trifoliolatis, carind vexillo et alis breviore. 

K, coccinea, foliolis 3 obovatis, stipulis lanceolatis patulis, pedunculis flores 3-10 um- 
bellato-capitatos apice gerentibus, legnminibus glabriusculis. DC. prodr.2, p. 383, 
Kennedia coccinea. Vent. malm. t.105. excl. synonym. Pers, syn, 2. p.302, Hort. Kew. 
ed.2. v. 4. p.299. Botan. magaz. 2664, Spreng’, syst. 3. p. 310, 

Stem frutescent, climbing: b7anches slender, densely clo- 
thed with blackish hairs, that are more or less spreading. Leaves 
ternate: leaflets obovate, the points more or less wedge-shaped, 
with a short mucro, the young one clothed on both sides with 
short procumbent hairs; nerves and veins thickly clothed with 
hairs. Petioles slender, hairy: partial ones thick and fleshy 
below the leaflet. S¢¢pules ovate or broadly lanceolate, densely 
clothed with dark hairs. Umbels 3 to 10-flowered. Peduncles 
slender, with two stipule like bractes at the base, thickly clothed 
with close-pressed dark hairs, longer than the leaf. Pedicles 
about the length of the calyx, thickly clothed with short dark 
hairs. Calya 2-lipped, thickly clothed with short black hairs : 
upper lip with two subulate teeth: lower lip 3-cleft, the laciniz 
