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bracteoles near their tips ; calyx |-§ as long as the pedicels, broadly 

 campanulate with short subtriangular teeth, more or less distinctly ribbed, 

 glabrous or with faint pubescence at the teeth and more or less on the 

 edges between ; standard broadly rounded in front, marked by numerous 

 close delicate purplish nerves diverging from the rather broad claw, and with 

 a large purplish blotch above the base covering more than half its upper 

 surface ; wings shorter than the keel, oblong, obtuse, narrow-clawed and 

 with a triangulo-hastate expansion at the base opposite the claw. Pods 

 15-25 mm. long, ± 4 mm. broad, oblong, a little flattened or semiterete, 

 subacute, shortly apiculate, not torulose, more or less wrinkled and 

 marked by obvious distant divaricating veins ; seeds subreniform, not 

 flattened, 2 mm. long, 1-75 mm. broad, red when mature, more or less 

 mottled with small black spots. 



Hab. — Awatere Valley, Marlborough: T. Kirk! Mouth of Clarence 

 River : G. Stevenson ! Throughout the upper basin of the Clarence River 

 and its tributary valleys : B. C. Aston ! 



I am deeply indebted to Mr. B. C. Aston for a fine series of specimens 

 of this plant which he collected in 1915, the fruiting pieces in April and 

 the flowering in December. The pods in his specimens are, however, still 

 immature. Mr. G. Stevenson also deserves my warmest thanks for very 

 fine flowering and fruiting specimens gathered near the Clarence Bridge. 

 These show the mature pods. I have put off describing this species for 

 several years, as I was long uncertain whether it might not prove to be a 

 form of one of the species already described. Thanks to the much-valued 

 help of Dr. L. Cockayne, and Mr. H. H. Allan of Ashburton, good 

 specimens of the pods of N. Carmichaeliae and N. torulosum have now been 

 available for study, with the result that I am satisfied that the present 

 plant is quite distinct from both. 



3. Observations on the Genus Notospartium. (Plate LVIII.) 



The accurate investigation of this genus has been greatly delayed by 

 the very incomplete material that has been available for examination by 

 local botanists. The species appear to be nowhere plentiful, and some 

 of them are confined to small areas more or less difficult of access. In mv 

 view the genus contains at least three well-marked species, the habitats of 

 which seem nowhere to overlap — N. Carmichaeliae Hk. f., N. torulosum 

 T. Kirk, and N. glabrescens, a new species described on page 366. The 

 flowers of these species are all very much alike in size and form, and one 

 has to fall back on the pods for characters that can be depended on in 

 distinguishing the species. 



N. Carmichaeliae appears to be confined to the valleys of tributaries 

 flowing northwards into the Wairau River, and the Awatere Valley 

 immediately to the south of these. It is distinguished when flowering by 

 the pubescent rhachis, pedicels, and calyx, and by the pink colour of the 

 flowers. Its pods were apparently first collected by Mr. Teschemaker a 

 few years ago at the Avon River, a tributary of the Waihopai, a district 

 in which only N. Carmichaeliae is known to grow. These fruiting pieces 

 were sent to Dr. Cockayne, from whom I received about a dozen of the 

 pods. They are thin, narrow, more or less curved, and much flattened. 

 I consider it certain that the pods figured in the Botanical Magazine as 

 those of N. Carmichaeliae do not truly belong to that plant ; they may be 

 immature pods of A T . glabrescens. These pods were figured from material 



