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KENNEDIA cordata. 
Large-leaved Kennedia. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.. 
Nat. ord. _Lxcuminos. Tribus V. Phascolee Decand. prodr. 2.381. 
_ KENNEDIA, Vent.—Calyzx bilabiatus, labio superiore bidentato, infe- 
viore trifido eequali. Corolla papilionacea, vexillo recurvo a carina non — 
teflexo. Stamina diadelpha. Stigma obtusum. Legumen lineare com- 
pressum isthmis cellulosis transverst multiloculare. Semzna strophiolata. 
Frutices Nove Hollandia, volubiles. Pedunculi axillares. Flores rubri aut 
violacet: vexillo basi bimaculato. Dec. prodr. 2.383. 
. vA 
K. cordata; foliolis solitariis cordatis  ovatis apiculatis petiolo sub- 
éequalibus, stipulis superioribus oyatis, racemis multifloris petiolo longioribus. 
Rami volubiles, glabri, angulati. Foliola solitaria, cordata, ovata, api- 
culata, reticulata, glabra, petiolo non multiim longiora; stipule ad basin 
petiolt ovate acuminate, ad basin folioli ovate acute. Racemi axillares, 
multifiort, erecti, petiolis longiores, glaberrimi. Cetera K. monophylle. 
We do not scruple to distinguish this plant from K. 
monophylla, with which we have seen it confounded in some 
collections, and under the name of which. our specimens 
were communicated from the garden of the Comtesse de 
Vandes, at Bayswater. The leaves are much broader, of 
different proportions, both with respect to themselves and 
to their footstalk, and acute with a little point. It is, 
doubtless, a‘native of N. Holland, and requires the same 
treatment as K. monophylla. Our drawing was made in 
April 1825. é Jp 
While preparing this article for the press, the long- 
expected second part of M. De Candolle’s Prodromus has 
reached us, in which we find Kennedia occupying a place 
among his tribe of Phaseolez, which are distinguished from 
other Leguminose with a curved embryo, by a polysper- 
mous dehiscent pod, and leaves without tendrils, the first 
pair of which, after germination, is alternate; by this last 
character the tribe is separated from Viciez. 
