Kirk. — On some Nao Zealand Plants. 605 



Corallospartimn, J. B. Armstrong. In Trans. N.Z. Inst., 

 xiii. (1880), 333. 

 No technical definition of this genus was given by its author, 

 but it differs essentially from Carmichaelia in the absence of 

 the replum, and in the ovary and pod being invariably silky or 

 pilose. It is a singular plant, with sparingly-branched cylin- 

 drical leafless stems, ^in.-fin. in diameter, and 2ft.-4ft. high. 

 The stems are yellow, with numerous deep longitudinal grooves, 

 which are filled with short black lax tomentum. In the young 

 state the stems are compressed or subterete, and produce a 

 few unifoliolate leaves, which speedily fall away. The flowers 

 are produced in dense fascicles ; pedicels, bracteoles, and calyx 

 being excessively woolly. The ovary is almost deltoid, rounded 

 at the back, and excessively villous, and the pod is 1-seeded, 

 with very thin valves. 



Huttonella, n.g. T. Kirk. 



The four species comprised in this small genus have the 

 general habit of Gdrmichaelia, but the pods are indehiscent 

 and turgid, the breadth usually exceeding the length, beak 

 ascending or sharply turned upwards, sometimes forming a 

 right angle with the axis of the pod. Seeds 1-3. Branchlets 

 terete or compressed. Leaves 1-3-foliolate, but only known in 

 a single species. One species is said to attain the height of 

 6ft. -8ft. ; the others are of more humble stature, or prostrate. 



The pods remain on the branches until the new flowers are 

 produced, when they fall to the ground and decay, the valves 

 being inseparable from the replum, which is usually imperfect. 



(Described fully in " Student's Flora of New Zealand," now 

 in the press.) 



Notospartium, Hook. f. In Hook. Kew Jour.,ix. (1857), 176, 



t. 3 ; Handbk. of N.Z. Fl., 51 (1864). 



This remarkable genus consists of only two species, usually 

 leafless shrubs, with slender, flexuous or pendulous, much-com- 

 pressed narrow branchlets and small racemose flowers. The 

 flowers differ but little from those of Carmichaelia ; the wings 

 are shorter than the hatchet- shaped keel ; the ovary is linear, 

 tapering into a long curved style, which is bearded on the 

 upper surface. The pod is linear-elongate, shortly stipitate, 

 straight or falcate, compressed, shortly beaked, torulose, 5-10- 

 seeded, indehiscent. Unifoliolate leaves are developed on very 

 young plants only. 



One species was described by Sir Joseph Hooker as above ; 

 the other, which at present is not thoroughly understood, was 

 included with Carmichaelia kirkii by Mr. J. B. Armstrong 

 in his description of " Carmichaelia gracilis," in Trans. N.Z. 

 Inst., xiii. (1880), 336. 



