y 
738 
-EDWARDSIA chrysophylla. 
Golden-leaved Edwardsia. 
———— 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. LecumMinos@. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. IV. 
EDWARDSIA. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla papilionacea. Legumen 
tetrapterum polyspermum. Curtis’s magaz. 1442. ma 
E. chrysophylia, foliolis 8-10 lineas longis obovatis, carinz petalis ellipticis, 
margine dorsali recto. Salisbury in trans. linn. soc. 9. 299. b. 26. fig. 1. 
Edwardsia chrysophylla. Sweet Hort. suburb. londin. 90. 
Facies aliqua sequentis (EDWARDS1 grandiflore), sed pubescentia dum 
tenera magis aurea. Folia densa. Petiolus angustus. Foliola 15-19 obo- 
vata, plus minus retusa. Flores minores quam in E. grandiflora eb micro- 
phylla; bast tantim 3 lineas longi. Petala tn specimine Herbarit Banksiani, 
ad quod modo destripsi, pallida flava. Salisbury loc. cit. 
The drawing of this native of the Sandwich. Islands, 
the last introduced of the genus, was taken at the collec- 
_ tion of Comtesse des Vandes, at Bayswater. The species 
was originally observed by Mr. Menzies, and samples were 
deposited by that gentleman in the Banksian Herbarium. 
From thence it was transferred by Mr. Salisbury to the re- 
_ cords of the Linnean Transactions. Much scarcer than 
its congeners, and never before figured from the live 
subject. . 
The genus is named and established by Mr. Salisbury, 
in compliment to the late Mr. Sydenham Edwards, whose . : 
reputation, as a botanical draughtsman, was established by 
the first volumes of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, to which 
he contributed the designs for more than twenty years. The 
drawings of the four first volumes of the present work are 
likewise from the pencil of the same excellent artist. 
| 
| 
) 
| 
| 
| 
| 
: 
| 
