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Char. Gen. Calyx campanulatus, truncatus, breviter 5-dentatus. Co- 

 rolla papilionacea. Vexillum obovato-obcordatum, ecallosum, exau- 

 riculatum. Alee lineari-oblongse, basi hinc auriculatae, auricula in- 

 curva. Carina ala longior, dolabriformis, petalis hinc breviter auri- 

 culatis, auriculis rectis obtusis. Stamen vexillare liberum, filamento 

 recto, cseteris alte monadelphis ; antheris oblongis. Ovarium sub- 

 sessile, lineare, in stylum incurvum secus marginem interiorem leviter 

 ciliatum abiens. Ovula 8-10, 1-seriata. Legumen breviter stipi- 

 tatum, lineare, leviter falcatum, acuminatum, compressum, subtoru- 

 losum, membranaceum, inarticulatum, indehiscens, multiloculare, 

 septis latiuseulis, marginibus ad septa emarginatis. Semina loculis 

 solitaria, oblonga, estrophiolata; testa coriacea, cotyledonibus oblongo- 

 rotundatis plano-convexis ; radicula elongata, clavata, torta. — Frutex 

 6-20 -pedalis Novse-Zelandise, Sesbanise et Carmichaelise affinis, facie 

 et inflorescentia Carmichaelise ; ramis ramulisque gracilibu8 i sulcatis, 

 Jlagelliformibus y pendulis, ultimis compressis, Jiic illic remote denticulatis ; 

 racemis pendulis, brevibus, multi/loris, e denticulis ramulorum ortis ; 

 , floribus roseis, pedicellatis ; pedicellis basi minute bracteatis, calycibus- 

 que basi minute bibracteolatis sericeo-pitbescentibus. (Nomen e votos, 

 australis, et airapmov.) 

 1. Notospartium Carmichaeliae, Hf (Tab. III.) 

 Hab. Montibus insulse medise Novse-Zelandise ad flumen Waihopai 

 Bom. Munro invenit florentem Dec. 1853, et prope Canterbury D- 

 Waites* 



This very remarkable plant appears to be common in some parts of 

 the Middle Island, where it is called "Pink Broom" by the colonists. 

 Dr. Munro says that it forms a small tree or bush, growing in sandy 

 and rocky places, of a very beautiful appearance when in flower, and 

 having weeping branches. Its resemblance to Carmichaelia is most 

 striking in many respects, and before receiving the fruit from Mr. 

 Waites, I had regarded it as an undetermined species of that genus. 

 Like it, the old plants are leafless, the branchlets slender, grooved, 

 twiggy, compressed, covered with green bark, bearing here and there 

 small tooth-like projections, which are undeveloped bracts, and from 



