Euadenia
(from eu, well, and aden, a gland; in allusion to the appendix at the base of the gynophore terminating in about five minute spherical knobs). ORD. Capparideae. A genus of two or three species of stove herbs or sub-shrubs, from tropical Africa, only the one described below having yet been introduced to cultivation. It thrives in a well-drained loamy soil. Cuttings strike readily in bottom heat.
E. eminens (eminent). fl., petals four, sulphur-yellow, two dorsal ones 4in. long, erect, narrowly linear-subulate, narrowed into a long claw; two lower ones smaller, pointing forward; sepals four, green, lanceolate, acuminate, 1/2in. long. l. alternate, stalked, trifoliolate, quite glabrous. A striking plant, with a "singularly handsome inflorescence, which resembles a candelabrum in its ramification, the yellow petals looking like pairs of gas jets on each branch." West tropical Africa, 1880. (B. M. 6578.)