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fulvous pubescence. Leaves exstipulate, 1-6in. long; pinne 4—40 
pairs, sessile or shortly petiolulate, +-1in. long, linear-oblong to 
obcordate or orbicular, rounded or retuse at the tip. Racemes 2—8- 
flowered, pendulous. Flowers large, golden-yellow, 1—2in. long. 
Calyx gibbous, hemispherical, mouth oblique. Standard hardly 
reflexed, broadly obovate, obtuse; keel and wings oblong. Pod 
9-8 in. long, moniliform, 4-angled, and with 4 narrow longitudinal 
wings ; valves hardly dehiscent. Seeds 3-8, oblong.—J/orst. Prodr. 
n. 183; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 538; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 122. 
Var. grandiflora, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 53.— Leaflets 10-25 pairs, 
longer and narrower, linear-oblong. Flowers larger, 2in. long. Standard a 
fourth shorter than the wings, obviously reflexed. — Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 50, 
S. tetra ptera, Bot. Mag. t.167. Edwardsia grandiflora, Salish. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. ix. (1808) 299; A. Rich. Fl. Nowv. Zel. 344; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 571; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 52. 
Var. microphylla, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 53. — Leaflets 25-40 pairs, 
small, oblong or obovate to orbicular. Flowers 1-1l}in. Standard narrower, 
as long as the wings or nearly so, hardly reflexed.—Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 51. 
S. microphylla, Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. 43; Bot. Mag.t. 1442. S. Chathamica, Cock- 
ayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxiv. (1902) 319 (name only). * Edwardsia micro- 
phylla, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. (1808) 299; A. Rich. Fl. Nowv. Zel. 344; 
A. Cunn. Precur.n. 570. E. Macnabiana, Bot. Mag. t. 3735. EE. grandiflora 
var. microphylla, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 52. 
Var. prostrata, Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 52.—Stems prostrate. Leaflets 2-4 
pairs. Flowers small, solitary or in pairs. Standard hardly shorter than the 
wings. Pods small, downy, barely winged; seeds 1-3.—S. prostrata, Buch. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 395, t. 36. 
Nortu anp Soutu Is~tanps, CHatHam IsLAnps: Var. microphylla: Abun- 
dant from the North Cape to Southland. Var. grandiflora: From the East 
Cape to Wellington, and reported from the South Island, but I have seen no 
specimens from thence. Var. prostrata: Mountains of Marlborough and Can- 
terbury. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Kowhui. August—October. Also found 
in Lord Howe Island, Easter Island, Juan Fernandez, and Chili. 
The three varieties described above have a very distinct appearance, and 
many botanists will prefer to treat them as separate species. ‘he timber is 
hard, strong, and durable, but can rarely be obtained of sufficient size fore 
conomic purposes. 
OrpeR XXIII. ROSACEA. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves simple or compound, alternate 
or rarely opposite, stipulate. Flowers usually regular and her- 
maphrodite, sometimes unisexual. Calyx with the tube free or 
adnate to the ovary, limb 4—5-lobed, lobes imbricate or valvate. 
Petals 4-5, rarely wanting, free, inserted on the calyx at the base 
of the lobes, imbricate. Stamens many, rarely few, inserted on 
the calyx just within the petals; filaments subulate, often incurved 
in bud; anthers small, didymous. Ovary of 1 or more free or 
coherent 1-celled carpels, sometimes adnate to the calyx - tube; 
styles free or connate; ovules 1 or 2 to each carpel, anatropous. 
Fruit very various, superior, or more or less inferior and combined 
