-orinany other country. The only other native Leguminous 
plant in New Zealand is the Sophora (Edwardsia) tetraptera, 
of which forms are figured in Plates 167, 1442, and 3735 
of this Magazine, and it is hardly distinguishable from the 
Chihan and Fuegian species. 
Notospartium is confined to the Middle Island; it was 
discovered on Christmas, 1853, by the late Dr. Munro, on 
the sandy and rocky banks of the Waihopai River in the 
Nelson Province; and it has since been found in the 
Canterbury Province by Dr. Haast and others. Though 
cultivated for some years in the Temperate House at Kew, 
it has never flowered there, and I am indebted to Messrs. 
Veitch for the specimen here figured, which arrived from 
their nursery in Combe Wood in July last. 
Descr. A shrub or small ramous tree attaining twenty 
feet in height, with weeping cord-like leafless branches, 
laden at Christmas with short racemes of flowers. Branches 
terete, grooved, green, branchlets a foot long and upwards 
of the sixteenth of an inch in diameter, deeply grooved ; 
nodes distant, not swollen, marked by a minute scale. 
Leaves on seedling plants alternate, obcordate, sparsely 
covered beneath with appressed hairs. Racemes one to one 
and a half inch long, subsessile, many-flowered; bracts 
minute; pedicels one-eighth of an inch long. Flowers one- 
third of an inch long, bright pink-purple. (aly tubular- — 
campanulate, minutely five-toothed. Standard broadly — 
obcordate, streaked with red, recurved. Wings dolabriform, 
longer than the keel, obtuse. Keel-petals cuneate, oblong, — 
tip rounded. Upper stamens free; anthers very small. 
Ovary linear, style bearded below the stigma. Pods one to 
one and a half inch long, by one-eighth of an inch broad, 
nearly straight, subacute, torulose, six- to ten-seeded; 
valves coriaceous, subseptate within. Seeds transversely 
oblong, compressed, funicle very short. Cotyledons pyri- 
form, radicle very stout, geniculate.-—J. D. H. : 
Fig. 1, Seedling plants; 2, flowering branch; 3, flower; 4, standard; 5, keel ; : 
6, wings; 7, calyx and stamens; 8, young pod; 9, branch with ripe pods; — 
10, ped; 11, portion of valve with seed; 12 and 13, embryos :—al pod ; 
and 9, enlarged. — 3 44 and 13, embryos :—all but Fg a. 
