[mod. bot. L. (Ventenat, 1804), from Kennedy, name of a gardener of Hammersmith.] A genus of perennial herbaceous climbing plants (N. O. Leguminosæ), natives of Australia and Tasmania, some of which are cultivated for the sake of their flowers; a plant of this genus. K. prostrata is the coral-creeper.
1845. Florist’s Jrnl., 75. An early vinery is exactly the place in which to grow Kennedyas.
1881. Mrs. C. Praed, Policy & P., I. 110. Vines of the crimson Kennedia trailed into the streamlet. Ibid. (1885), Head Station, 191. Crimson kennedia and hoya tapestried the rocks.
