Tas. 6578, 
KUADEN TA EMINENS. 
Native of Western Tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. CappartpEm.—Tribe CapparEn. 
Genus Evapenta, Oliver ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 969.) 
EUVADENIA eminens ; suffrutex glaberrimus, caule erecto stricto superne folioso, 
foliis breviter petiolatis 3-foliolatis, foliolis sessilibus ovato- v. oblongo-lanceo- 
latis longe acuminatis integerrimis, racemo amplissimo corymbiformi multifloro, 
pedicellis adscendentibus, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, petalis longissimis 
anguste spathulatis planis acutis sulphureis, 2 superioribus erecto-recurvis, 
2 inferioribus brevioribus interdum nanis porrectis, staminibus 5 anticis 
fertilibus, filamentis decurvis dein adscendentibus, antheris oblongis, appendice 
dorsali lineari apice 5-fida laciniis apice tortis, ovario 2-loculari longe stipitato. 
The genus Huadenia was established by Professor Oliver 
upon two tropical African plants, of which one, H. tri- 
foliolata, Oliv. (Stroemia trifoliolata, Schum. and Thénn.), 
from Old Calabar and Abbeokuta, is an undoubted congener 
of the plant here figured, though differing in its racemose 
flowers; the other, H.? Kirkii, Oliv., from the Mozambique 
district, is probably a different genus, which is very im- 
perfectly known. There are also in the Kew Herbarium 
imperfect specimens, collected by Mann, of what is probably 
a third species, from an elevation of 3000 feet in the 
Cameroon Mountains, where it forms a tree 30 feet high. 
It is remarkable for its celery-like odour when dry. And, 
lastly, there is also in the Herbarium an individual of E. 
eminens, collected also by Mann on the banks of the Bagroo 
river in 1861. 
E. eminens differs from all the other species in the 
singularly handsome inflorescence, which resembles a 
candelabrum in its ramification, the yellow petals looking 
like pairs of gas jets on each branch. It was introduced 
from West Africa by Mr. Bull, who kindly communicated 
SEPTEMBER 1s, 1881. : i 
