52 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Rosacee. 
as the character of Edwardsia, then the Sandwich Islands and East Indian Zdwardsie must be transferred to Sophora. 
Besides, Edwardsia Chilensis (or Sophora macrocarpa) differs from the other Edwardsie in the turbinate base of the 
calyx. G. Bentham, USS. 
A. middling-sized tree, with copious racemes of large golden blossoms, and long pinnated leaves; very variable in 
size of flowers, foliage, and fruit; more or less pilose or tomentose, with often rusty pubescence. Branches and ra- 
cemes densely pubescent, silky, tomentose. Racemes six- to eight-flowered. Peduncle 1 inch long; pedicels $—1 inch. 
Leaves 4-8 inches long, imparipinnate; petiole silky, with red-brown hairs; pinnules 20-40 pair, 2-8 lines long, 
linear, oblong or obovate, rounded or notched at the apex, silky below. Flowers pendulous. Calyx hemispherical, 
truncate, five-toothed. Petals 1 inch long, or more. Standard very broad, nearly horizontal, margins rounded, rather 
shorter than the wings, which are linear-oblong, blunt, suddenly contracted into a short claw at the base; keel longer 
than the wings, linear-oblong, falcate, rather acute, subauriculate at the base. Stamens all free. Ovary densely silky, 
very narrow, linear, gradually attenuated into a long style, stipitate. Pods 2—8 inches long, stipitate, constricted, 
six- to ten-seeded, four-winged, almost indehiscent. Seeds red-brown, as large as tares. (Named in honour of 
Sydenham Edwards, a famous botanical painter.) 
1. Edwardsia grandiflora, Salisb. DC. Prodr. A. Cunn. Prodr. Sophora tetraptera, Curtis, Bot. 
Mag. t. 167. 
Var. B. microphylla ; foliolis parvis. E. microphylla, Salisb. DC. Prodr. Bot. Mag. t. 1442. A. Rich. 
Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. Sophora microphylla, Jacg. Hort. Schen. t. 269. Lamarck, ete. 
Haz. Throughout the Islands, abundant, Banks and Solander, etc. Fl. November. Nat. name, 
* Kowhai,” Cunn. (Cultivated in England.) 
The following notes upon this widely distributed plant have been kindly supplied to me by Mr. Bentham, who 
has most carefully examined all my specimens. 
“I cannot find any character to distinguish the New Zealand Edwardsie from each other, even as varieties: the 
leaves oblong, obovate, or nearly orbicular, 6—8 lines or scarcely 2 lines long, very hairy on both sides, or more or less 
smooth above, show every gradation from the one to the other; so that I have in vain attempted to sort your speci- 
mens into varieties, without making one for almost every specimen. Without the fruit, they are readily distinguished 
from the Sophora macrocarpa, by the short vexillum, and the calyx rounded, not turbinate at the base. The lower 
petals vary in breadth, and the keel petals from very blunt to sharply acuminate. 
“The South Chilian Hdwardsia microphylla agrees precisely in foliage and fruit with some of the New Zealand 
specimens with middle-sized leaves. You seem to have no good flowers of this. In one specimen with three flowers 
the vexillum appears to be nearly if not quite equal to the other petals ; but it is scarcely in full flower, and one cannot 
well judge. Can this be the 2. Macnabiana, Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 3735, said also to have the vexillum equal to the 
petals? but figured with oblong, not obovate leaflets. Unless this character can be ascertained with certainty, the 
Valdivia, Chiloe, and Juan Fernandez plant must be considered as Æ. grandiflora. E. chrysophylla, and an unpub- 
lished smaller-flowered species from the Sandwich Islands, Z. mollis, and E. Maderaspatana, from East India, differ 
from F. grandiflora in their reflexed vexillum, stamens included in the keel, ete. Wight’s artist, in drawing t. 1034 
(of ‘Icones Plantarum Indie Orientalis’), has probably represented the fruit only of Edwardsia Maderaspatana, 
with the flowering branch of Sophora glauca. I am unacquainted with Æ. parvifolia, Wight, from China, and with 
the two Mauritius species described by De Candolle.” G. Bentham. 
Nar. Orv. XXIV. ROSACEA, Juss. 
Gen. I. RUBUS, Z. 
Flores hermaphroditi v. dioici. Calyx explanatus, persistens, 5-lobus. Petala 5-7, calyce inserta. 
Stamina 00, cum petalis inserta. Ovaria plerumque 00, receptaculo inserta, l-locularia, loculis 1-2- 
