l 298 Mr. Salisbury's Characters of the Genus Edwardsia, 



large stipules, terminal spikes of flowers, and a very inflated 

 pedieellated pod; most of them afford indigo, and look like species 

 of Crotolaria, under which genus Linne has inserted S. Alba in 

 Species Plan tar urn : 8th ly, S. Buiifolia, Rotund if olia, Hirsuta, 

 Calif •pt rat a, and Bijlora : Professor Retzius first distinguished 

 these shrubs, which all grow at the Cape of Good Hope, and I 

 cannot see the smallest affinity in them to the preceding North 

 American plants ; they have exceedingly small stipules prest 

 close to the stem, thick downy simple leaves, axillary flowers 

 either solitary or in short spikes, and a calyx redoubled at the 

 base, with a large sessile pod. 



I have given the characters of the last of the above genera in 

 Paradisus Londinensis, retaining for it, by possibly a more ca- 

 nonical derivation, Lamarck's name of Podah/ria. I propose 

 now briefly to describe the fourth, calling it after that celebrated 

 botanic painter, who has for many years executed the figures in 

 the Botanical Magazine, 



EDWARDSIA. 



Leguminosse. Juss. Gen. p. 345. 



Sect. IV. Corolla papiJionacea. Filamenta 10, libera. Peri- 

 earpium 1-loculare, 2-valve. Folia imparl pinnata. Stipulce 

 nulla. 



Torus calathiformis, 10-angulus, post lapsum petalorum fila- 

 mentorumque ex eoruin cicatricibus mellifluus. Calvx obli- 

 quus, 5-dentatus latere superiore fisso. Petalaconniventia, 

 rectiuscula, Carina longa 2-petala. Pericarpium moniliforme, 

 4-pterum, polyspermum. Arbores humiles. Folia sera hy- 

 eme decidua? juniora sericea. Flores aurei ; in spicis brevibus^ 



aaillaribus, 



