108 LEGUMINOS#. [Corallospartiwm. 
** Branches not flattened nor compressed, leafy. 
Shrub. Racemes pendulous; flowers large, crimson. Pod 
terete, many-seeded é 25 .. 4. CLIANTHUS. 
Small alpine herb. Racemes erect. "Pod membranous, 
inflated .. - ie .. 5, SWAINSONA. 
Large twiner. Leaves 3- foliolate. Calyx 2-lipped. Sta- 
mens monadelphous. Pod large and broad .. . 6. CANAVALIA. 
Tree or shrub. Leaves pinnate with many leaflets. 
Racemes pendulous. Flowers large, yellow. Stamens 
free. Pod moniliform a cv ars .. 7. SOPHORA. 
1. CORALLOSPARTIUM, J. B. Armstrong. 
A leafless shrub. Stems and branches stout, cylindric, deeply 
grooved. Flowers in dense fascicles at the ied of the brant 
lets. Calyx woolly, campanulate, 5-toothed; teeth about equal. 
Standard large, broad, reflexed, contracted into a short claw. 
Wings “aidan oblong, obtuse, ied towards the base, shorter 
than the keel. Keel about equalling the standard, incurved, 
oblong, obtuse. Upper stamen free, the others connate into a 
sheath. Ovary densely villous; style silky at the base ; ovules 2-4. 
Pod 2-valved, deltoid, rounded and winged at the back, straight in 
front, shortly beaked, villous; valves thin, faintly reticulated, 
edges not thickened nor consolidated into a replum. Seed solitary, 
reniform ; radicle with a double flexure. 
A genus of a single species, endemic in New Zealand. It is technically 
separated from Carmichelia by the 2-valved pod without a persistent replum. 
1. C. crassicaule, Armsir. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 
333.—Stems erect, 1-6ft. high, +-#in. diam., sparingly branched, 
yellow, stout, erect, cylindrical, with numerous parallel tomentose 
STOOVES ; branchlets compressed at the tips. Leaves rarely seen 
on mature plants, when present very fugacious, small, linear- 
oblong or ovate-oblong; of young plants broadly oblong or almost 
orbicular, entire or emarginate. [ascicles capitate, densely 
8-20-flowered ; pedicels short, slender, and with the calyces 
softly woolly. Flowers ++in. long, cream-coloured. Pod in. 
long.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 106. Carmichelia crassicaulis, Hook. f. 
Handb. N.Z. Fil. 48. 
Var. racemosa, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 107. — Branchlets narrower, 4in. 
broad, compressed. Flowers less than +in. long, solitary or in 3—5-flowered 
racenies, which are solitary or fascicled. Pedicels and calyx not so woolly. 
SourH Is~AnpD: Canterbury—Mount Torlesse, Haast! Lake Lyndon, 
Enys! 1, F. C.; Mount Dobson and other mountains flanking the Mackenzie 
Plains) ee. Ge Lake Ohau, Haast. Otago—Lindis Pass, Hector and Bu- 
chanan ; Naseby and westward to the Dunstan Mountains, Petrie ! H. J. Mat- 
thews ! 1500-4000 ft. Coral-broom. December—January. 
One of the most remarkable plants in the colony; at once recognised by the 
robust deeply grooved branchlets, densely fascicled flowers, and woolly calyx. 
It appears to be confined to arid situations on the eastern slopes of the Southern 
Alps. 
