112 LEGUMINOSH. [Carmchelia. 
minutely grooved or striate. Leaves not seen. Racemes 2-4- 
flowered ; pedicels long, very slender, glabrous or with a few silky 
hairs. Flowers ++ in. long, purplish-red. Calyx campanulate, 
usually silky; teeth short, broadly triangular, subacute. Standard 
broad, with a short broad claw; wings shorter than the keel. Pods 
i1_1in. long, linear-oblong, often narrowed towards the base ;’ beak 
short, straight. Seeds 2-6.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 109. C. australis 
6 nana, Benth. in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 50. 
Norru Isnanp: Elevated open country between Lake Taupo, Ngauruhoe, 
and Ruapehu. SoutH Isutanp: Nelson to Central Otago, abundant in stony 
river-valleys. Altitudinal range from almost sea-level to 2800 ft. Decem- 
ber-January. 
One of the most widely spread species of the genus. Its nearest ally is 
C. wniflora, from which it is separated by the broader and more obtuse branch- 
lets and racemed flowers. 
4. ©. Monroi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 49.—A small exces- 
sively branched rigid and woody plant, forming low compact 
masses 6—-24in. diam. or more and 2-6in. high. Branchlets 
crowded, very stout, flattened with rounded edges, grooved, 4-1 in. 
broad. Leaves only seen on young plants, cuneate or obcordate, 
emarginate, silky. Racemes 2-3-flowered, solitary or fascicled ; 
pedicels long, slender, silky. Flowers +4in. long, purplish-red. 
Calyx silky, sometimes densely so; teeth long, narrow-triangular, 
acute. Standard longer than the keel, broad, emarginate ; wings 
shorter than the keel. Pods 4-2 in. long, unusually turgid, straight 
or faleate; valves conspicuously wrinkled and corrugated when 
mature ; beak short, usually oblique, sometimes straight. Seeds 
4-14, brownish or reddish-brown mottled with darker. — Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 109. C. corrugata, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xv. 
(1883) 320. 
SourH Istanp: Dry gravelly places on the mountains, Marlborough to 
Otago, not uncommon. Altitudinal range from 250ft. to fully 4000 ft. 
Decembér—February. 
A well-marked plant, easily distinguished by the depressed habit, short 
stout woody branchlets, lax racemes, and large remarkably turgid many-seeded 
pod. 
5. C. Williamsii, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii. (1880) 394. 
—An erect much-branched shrub 3-8 ft. high. Branchlets $+ in. 
broad, thin, much compressed, finely and closely striate or grooved, 
glabrous or slightly pubescent when young; notches distant, alter- 
nate. Leaves seldom produced except on young plants, 1—3-folio- 
late; leaflets obovate or obcordate. Flowers large, #-1in. long, 
yellowish-red, pendulous, solitary or in 2—6-flowered fascicles or 
racemes; pedicels short, slender, silky. Calyx large, narrow- 
campanulate or almost tubular, pubescent; teeth linear-subulate, 
acute. Standard rather larger than the keel, sharply recurved 
one-third of the way from the base; wings narrow-oblong, falcate, 
