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tected by me in these forests just forty years ago ; then only 

 once, and never seen by me since. That one, however, was a 

 very different species — as to habit, size of branches and spines, 

 colour, &c. I obtained it in wet weather (when shut up in 

 my tent in these woods by flooded rivers, and no paths), 

 and therefore could not preserve or dry my specimens as I 

 wished. 



Art. V. — A Description of some newly-discovered Phoinogamic 

 Plants ; being a further Contribution toicards the making 

 knoion the Botany of Neta Zealand. 



By William Colenso, F.E.S., F.L.S., ilc. 



[Read before the Haivke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 12th November, 



1888.] 



Order XXII.— LEGUMINOS^. 



Genus !.'■■ Carmicligelia, Br. 



1. C. corymbosa, sp. nov. 



Shrub erect, 6ft. -8ft. high, much branched, dark-green. 

 Branches terete, long, and slender, sub-erect, spreading and 

 drooping ; branchlets sub-semi-terete and flattened, long and 

 flaccid, narrow, 1 line wide (some less), striate on both 

 sides, margins slightly recurved, tips obtuse and sub-acute, 

 generally ending with a scale. Leaves alternate, lateral from 

 notches in edges of branches, with small scarious bracts at the 

 base of the petiole, very few and scattered on lower branchlets 

 (little more plentiful on young plants), membranous, green 

 above, sub-glaucous below, trifoliolate or imparipinnate, -Jin. 

 long, cuneate and cuneate-obcordate, emarginate, the sinus 

 deep with a minute rnucro, the terminal leaflet two to three times 

 larger than the lateral pair, which are distant, opposite, and 

 shortly petiolulate, all three jointed ; joints pale ; veins largely 

 anastomosing, margins entire yet slightly and closely sub- 

 crenulato-denticulate ; petioles flat, very slender and narrow, 

 almost filiform, -iin.-fin. long, striate, edges slightly recurved, 

 ciliate at top under limb, with a few scattered weak hairs on 

 petiole and on limb beneath ; sometimes there is only the 

 single terminal leaflet, which is then much larger and of the 

 same shape, and sometimes (but more rarely) only the small 

 lateral pair. Flowers scattered, lateral and infra-axillary 

 under younger branches and branchlets, collected in short 

 sub-corymbose heads 8-10 together, 3-4-fascicled, with 3-4 

 small scarious bracts forming a ring at their base, sometimes 



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

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



