CARMICH^LIA AustraUs. 
Smlh-Sea Carmichalia, 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. hzGvmsQSs. PapilioiMoeee. Br. * 
Ci41i3f/Ci7JS£/il.----Caf)r#^cyathifonni8, 5-dentatus. Ovarium poly- 
spermum. Stigma simplex. iLegumen o%08permum (1-3 sp.)» reph poft 
lapsum valvularum persistente ! 
Frutex ramosissiinus, sub statu JlorescentuB seepiils aphyllus. Caalis 
ramique primarii teretes, teneriores v. plano-compressi v. ancipites, stipulk 
minutis altematim dentati. Folia b dentibus ramorum fruticit jumorii, 
temata v. pinnata, (foliolis 3-7 ohcordatis ). Racemi simpliciswm k den- 
tiadis ramorum ; pedicelU basi Vractea abbreviata, apice binis minutitsimis. 
Flores parvi. Calycis denies subaquales, brevissimi. Petala longitudine 
subcequalia : vexillum lamina latiore qiiam longiore, hasi absque callis auri- 
culisve ; carina, obtusa. Filamenta 1-9 Jid. Anthera; unifnrmes, subovales. 
Ovarium lineare, 5-6 spermiun. Stylus suhulatus, adscend^ns. Stigma obtu- 
sum, imberbe. Semina subreniformia, sinii clauso, umhiliro nudo. Brown 
MSS. 
C. Australia. Brown MSS. 
lAtJU,arboreu8; legumimbttg quinatis, foliolis obcordatis, caule taboteo. 
Forst. prodr. n. 2.278. Willd. sp. pi. 3.1392. Pers. syn. 2.36^ 
For the above character of this very remarkable genus- 
we are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Brown, who, for- 
tunately for science, is in possession of perfectly ripe fruit. 
The plant was originally discovclred in 1769, by Sir Joseph 
Banks and Dr. Solander, on the eastern side of tne 
northern island of New Zealand, between latitudes 37°~ 
39° south; and an excellent description of it, from the 
hand of Dr. Solander, exists in the Banksian Library, 
among the manuscripts of that celebrated voyage, by which 
the botanical riches of the South Seas were first made 
known to Europe. George Forster, who afterwards met 
with it in Dusky Bay, referred it to the genus Lotus ; and 
it is remarkable enough, that Willdenow, who appears to 
have seen the pods, retains it in the genus where Forster 
placed it. These differ from the legume either of Lotoi 
or of any other kaown g^Qs, and offer a newionn of fruit 
