CoLENso. — On New PhcBuogamic Plants. 459 



Art. LIX. — A Description of some Newly -discovered Phano- 

 gamic Plants, being a Further Coyitrihution toiuards the 

 making -hioiun the Botany of Neiu Zealand. 



By William Colenso, F.E.S., F.L.S., &c. 



[Read before the Haivke's Bay Philosopliical Institute, 13th May and 



7th October, 1889.] 



The plcauts contained in those two papers are here placed 

 together systematically, so as to avoid repetition of orders and 

 genera. Those described early (in May), in the first paper, 

 were all from the mountainous interior, East Taupo County, 

 and collected by Mr. Hill ; while those in the later paper 

 (in October) were mainly from the lowland forest region 

 near Dannevirke, collected by W. Colenso and by Mr. A. 

 Hamilton, and also from near the sea on the East Coast. 



Order XXII. Leguminos^. 

 Genus 1.''' Carmichaelia, Br. 

 1. C. orbiculata, sp. nov. 



A very small erect rigid shrub of 2in.-3in. high, whose 

 main stems are prostrate and ,under soil (and ever- shifting 

 volcanic sand), much and closely branched, forming large 

 flat patches somewhat resembling a coarse doormat ; branch- 

 lets fin.-lin. long, erect, rigid, simple, linear, flat, 2 lines 

 wide, coarsely but regularly striate, yellow-green, their tips 

 very obtuse, dark-yellow with blackish (ustulate) margins, 

 their lateral margins irregularly and distantly notched, each 

 notch having a scarious light-brown ciliated appressed tri- 

 angular bract. Flow^ers in small sub -corymbose panicles 

 usually 3-5 together ; peduncle rather long and (with pedicels) 

 slightly pilose, each pedicel decurved, with 1-2 small ovate 

 brown bracteoles, their margins pilose-ciliate. Calyx rather 

 large, green, cup-shaped, inflated, with 5 acute blackish teeth, 

 the sinuses large rounded. Corolla pinkish-lilac ; standard 

 orbicular, slightly emarginate, 2 lines diameter, much veined. 

 Anthers connate nearly to tips. Stigma sharply papillose. 

 Pod green, glabrous, slightly rugulose, orbicular sometimes 

 broadly elliptic, 3 lines diameter; beak long, slender, very 

 much recurved; replum stout; 1-seeded. Seed orbicular- 

 cordate, sides unequal, dull-green spotted with purple. 



Hah. Desert of Eangipo, near Mount Tongariro, County 

 of East Taupo ; 1889 : Mr. H. Hill. 



* The numbers attached to the orders and genera in this paper are 

 those of them in the "Handbook, Flora of New Zealand." 



