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EpwarpsiaA MacnaBiANA. Mr. MaAcnaps’s 
EpWARDSIA. 
KKK EK EEE EK EERE EE EE 
Class and Order. 
Decanpria Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx obliquus 5-dentatus, latere superiore fisso. Petala 
5 distincta conniventia in corollam papilionaceam, carina 
longa. Stamina 10 filamentis (ex Salisb.) deciduis toro 
decangulari cyathiformi insertis. Legwmen moniliforme |- 
loculare bivalve tetrapterum polyspermum.—Frutices aut 
Arbuscule. Folia impari-pinnata multijuga exstipulata 
tarde decidua. Flores aurei axillares, breviter spicato-race- 
most. 
- Specific Character and Synonym. 
Epwarpsia Macnabiana ; foliolis 20-jugis elliptico-obova- 
tis supra glabris subtus villosiusculis, vexillo rotundato 
amplo alis breviori basi subcordato, carina_petalis 
hiantibus ala longioribus marginibus inferioribus re- 
flexis. Graham. ieee 
Epwarpsia Macnabiana. Graham MSS. 
This strikingly handsome shrub has been for many years 
in cultivation at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, having 
now a stem which measures eleven inches in circumference ; 
but when, or whence, it was introduced we do not know, 
_ though we have never observed it in any other collection. 
Some doubt may be entertained whether the present plant 
is not a seedling variety of E. grandiflora; but it is in- 
stantly distinguishable from the ordinary form of that spe- 
cies, by its nearly equal petals, by the wide separation of 
the petals of the keel, and by its flowering when in full 
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