leaf. Every year till the present, (1838,) it had thriven 
well and blossomed profusely upon a South wall, and it had 
also lived, though it did not thrive, or blossom, as a 
standard. In the last and memorable winter, memorable for 
the ruin it effected among shrubs more than half hardy, this 
beautiful plant suffered much less than E. grandiflora or E. 
microphylla, individuals of which, about the like size and 
age as E. Macnabiana, and occupying parts of the same wall 
with it, were killed to the ground, while the present species 
was only a good deal cut, and it did not flower this year. 
Mr. Macnaz feels more confident than I do of its being a 
species, and to him, therefore, I have dedicated it. 
Descr. A large Shrub, or small Tree, with brown, 
warted bark : the young branches covered with appressed, 
silky, rufous pubescence. Leaves with about twenty pairs 
of elliptico-obovate leaflets ; glabrous above, as well as the 
channelled common petiole, slightly hairy below, hairs 
appressed, rufous. Flowers produced upon the plant at the 
same time as the foliage, in lateral racemes, pedicelled. 
Calyx cylindrical, abruptly truncated at both extremities, 
toothed, shortly but densely pubescent. Corolla bright 
yellow ; vexillum about three times as long as the calyx, 
rounded, subcordate at the base, somewhat shorter than the 
other petals; ale curved, elliptical, cordate at the base ; 
claw linear, bulging outwards; Keel longer than the wings, 
dipetalous : Petals elliptical, semicordate on the upper side, 
spreading and revolute at the lower margin, so as, in the 
space left between them, to expose the stamens to their 
base ; claws longer than those of the ale and straight. Sta- 
mens as long as the keel ; filaments subulate, glabrous, 
spreading at their apices. Anthers small. Pistil as long as 
the stamens ; Germen covered with silky, appressed, rufous 
hairs, and marked externally by the numerous ovules ; 
Style subulate, nearly straight, almost glabrous ; Stigma 
minute. Legume moniliform, four-winged, wings approach- 
ing in pairs aboveand below. Seeds roundish, of a yellow- 
ish-brown colour. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Flower of E. Macnabiana, natural size. 
