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EDWARDSIA chrysophylla. 

 Golden-leaved Edwardsia. 



DECANDRIA MONOOYNJA. 



Nat, ord. Leouminos*. Juiriim ge». 346. Dh. IV. 

 EDWARDSIA. Cb^ ftKlentatus. Ccnv^ pa^tlionacea. tegumm 

 tetrapterum polyspermum. CStrtiis magaz. 1443. 



£. chrgsopkglla, foUolia 8-10 lineas longb obovatis, carins petalis ellipticU, 

 margine dorsali recto. SaliMbmy w trmu. Hum. $oa. 0. 299. b. ^.f^. 1. 

 Bdwardsia chrysophylla. Sweet Hort. gvimrh. Jiom^ 90. 



Facie$ aliqna teqwntU (Edwabdsib giteidiflone), ted pttbetcentia dmm 

 tenera magU aurea. Folia dam. Petiolua anffvMtua. Foliola I&'IO obo- 

 vata, pltti minus retusa. Flores Mtnore* quam In £. grandiflorft et nucro- 

 phyllft ; basi tantitm 3 Uneas Umgi. Petala tn specmmw Berharii Banknamif 

 ad quod modd deger^H, paUidaJlava. Salisbury loc. dt 



The drawing of this native of the Sandwich Islands, 

 the last introduced of the genus, was taken at the collec- 

 tion of Comtesse des Vandes, at Bayswater. TTie species 

 was originally observed by Mr. Menzies, and samples were 

 deposit^ by that gentleman in the Banksian Herbarium. 

 Prom thence it was transferred by Mr. Salisbury to the re- 

 cords of the Linnean Transactions. Much scarcer than 

 its congeners, and never before figured from the live 

 subject. 



The genus is named and established by Mr. Salisbury, 

 in compliment to the late Mr. Sydenham Edwards, whose 

 reputation, as a botanical draughtsman, was established by 

 the first volumes of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, to which 

 he contributed the designs for more than twenty years. The 

 drawings of the four first volumes of the present work are 

 likewise from the pencil of the same excellent artist. 



