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Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand : in fruit ; with foliage of the 

 smaller-leaved state, which, as Mr. Benthani remarks (in Hook. f. Fl. 

 N. Zeal.) is not to be definitely distinguished, even as a variety, from 

 the larger-leaved form of the species. 



2. Edwakdsia chrysophylla, Salisb. 



Edwardsia chrysophylla, Salisb. in Linn. Trans. 9, p. 302, t. 26, f. 1; Ker. Bot. 

 Reg. t. 738; DC. 1. c. 



Var. (3. glabrata : foliis calycibusque glabratis ; floribus minoribus. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands (where it was first collected by Menzies) ; 

 on the mountains above the forest zone. Mouna Kea, Hawaii, occu- 

 pying a zone reaching to an elevation of 11,000 feet ; and Mouna Loa, 

 above the crater Lua Pele. Also on the mountains of Kauai ; and of 

 the eastern part of Maui, on the banks of the crater Haleakala. 

 Var. f3. Hawaii, 1,000 feet above Puna. 



The Mamani of the natives is a small tree, 20 or 30 feet high, 

 somewhat variable in its foliage, pubescence, &c; the silkiness of the 

 lower face of the leaflets being sometimes of a golden or tawny hue, 

 and sometimes almost silvery. In the variety (3. this pubescence is 

 shorter as well as more scanty, and the calyx is still more glabrate; 

 but I perceive no farther difference, except that the flowers are rather 

 smaller. In all, the upper surface of the leaflets becomes glabrous 

 and more or less shining. The yellow flowers are not quite an inch 

 in length. The broad vexillum is recurved, as noted by Mr. Ben- 

 tham in this and in two East Indian species. The stamens are as long 

 as the keel, but not exserted. Ovary tomentose. Legume about 4 

 inches long, 6-9-seeded, more or less constricted between the seeds, 

 quadrate by the 4 narrow wings, which, with the whole corky epicarp, 

 separate in a somewhat bivalvular manner at full maturity, when the 

 chartaceous and moniliform endocarp becomes more or less two-valved. 

 Seeds oval, somewhat compressed, chestnut-colour. 



The unpublished species of Edwardsia, from the Sandwich Islands, 

 mentioned by Mr. Bentham, in Dr. Hooker's New Zealand Flora, 



