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Order XXII. Leguminos^. 

 Genus 1. Carmichselia, Br. 

 1. C. suteri, sp. nov. 



A very dwarf, glabrous, slender, twiggy shrub, 2in.-2^in. 

 high, with numerous close-curved and erect, forked, and simple 

 branchlets lin.-lfin. long, o^gin. wide, compressed, narrowly 

 sulcated, tips obtuse, with small broadly-triangular scale-like 

 bractcoles at lateral notches on stems, acute, pa,le and sub- 

 ciliated. Leaves not seen. Flower solitary (large for plant), 

 4 lines long, " red-violet (turning somewhat greenish in dry- 

 ing)." Peduncle (proper) 2 lines long, slender, glabrous, pale, 

 jointed on to a green stalk 3-4 lines long. Calyx -teeth 

 large, broad obtuse, tips black, the margin between them 

 slightly ciliolate, with 2 small distant bracteoles appressed at 

 base, their edges ciho-fimbriate. Standard broadly orbicular, 

 2i lines wide, slightly notched ; wings large oblong, their tips 

 broad rounded; keel sub-orbicular (expanded), tip very obtuse, 

 deeply notched ; ovary glabrous ; style penicillate. Pod large, 

 sub-oblong-lanceolate oblique, 7i lines long (including beak), 

 nearly 3 lines broad, corrugated ; beak 1 line long, straight, 

 sometimes slightly curved, acute. Seeds 7, small, reniform, 

 sub-terete, smooth, symmetrical, unicoloured, pale dusky- 

 purplish. 



Hab. South Island, " near Mount Cook Hermitage, alt. 

 2,540ft.!; creeping upwards over stones amongst tussocks:" 

 Mr. H. Side); in lit., 1890. 



Obs. A delicately-formed small species, nearly allied to 

 C. uniflora, Kirk, but differing from that species in its much 

 larger flower and pod, glabrous peduncle, obtuse black caly- 

 cine teeth, kc, the pod being the largest of all the species 

 known to me. It is named after its kind and liberal dis- 

 coverer, Mr. Suter, a skilled scientist, who also, during his 

 short sojourn there at the Hermitage, discovered several otJier 

 small and interesting alpine plants, some of them being also 

 described in this paper. 



Order XXII 1. Eosace^. 



Genus 4. Acsena, Valil. 

 1. A. macrantha, sp. nov. 



Herb perennial, prostrate and sub - ascending, much- 

 branched ; main branches and root stout, woody. Leaves 

 numerous, 2in. long, obovate (in outline), . imparipinnate, 

 membranaceous, dark-green ; leaflets 5 pairs, distant, gla- 

 brous above, slightly strigosely hairy on midrib below ; the 

 upper pairs sub-sessile, broadly oblong, deeply serrate, tips 

 truncate 3-toothed ; lower pairs very small, sub-orbicular. 



