Tan. 6741. 
NOTOSPARTIUM CarmicHa.iz. 
Native of New Zealand. 
Nat. Ord. Legumitnosz#.—Tribe GaLeceEx. 
Genus Norospartium, Hook. f.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 502.) 
Notospartium Carmichelie; fratex v. arbor parva fere glaberrima, ramulis 
filiformibus pendulis, squamulis ad nodos minimis, floribus roseo-lilacinis ad 
nodos racemosis. 
N. Carmichelix, Hook.f. in Kew Journ, Bot. vol. ix. p. 176, t.3; etin Handbook 
NV. Zeal. Flor. p. 51. 
This, the ** Pink Broom” of the residents in the Middle 
Island of New Zealand, is one of the most beautiful plants 
in the Colony, and is further remarkable as being a member 
of what is one of the largest families of plants in every 
part of the world where vegetation is found, except New 
Zealand. Indeed the absence of Leguminose in New 
Zealand, in contrast especially with their great abundance 
in Australia, is the most singular feature in the Flora of the 
Island; and those genera that do occur have for the most 
part little affinity with one another. ‘Thus, of the five 
known genera, the principal is the endemic Carmichelia, 
consisting of eleven species of leafless shrubs, with pods 
quite unlike those of any other Leguminous plants; Notos- 
partwm is monotypic, and it stands next to Carmichelia, 
but has quite different pods. Two Australian genera 
follow; one is the large Australian one, Swainsonia, of 
which a single endemic species has been found in a single 
spot in the Middle Island of New Zealand; the other is the 
beautiful Clianthus, of which only two species are known, 
namely, “ Sturt’s Pea,’’? O. Dampieri (Plate 5051), a native 
of the dry interior of Australia; and the familiar C. puniceus 
of our greenhouses (Plate 3584), which, though often seen 
about native houses in the north parts of the Northern 
Island of New Zealand, has never been found wild in that 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1884. 
