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shorter than the keel. Pod 1-14 in. long, on stout erect pedicels, 
oblong, turgid; beak long, straight or oblique. Seeds 9-12, red 
mottled with black.—Students’ Fl. 110. 
NortH Isuanp: Rare and local. East Cape district, from Te Kaha and 
Raukokore to Hicks Bay, Bishop Williams! Petrie! Adams ! Novem ber— 
December. 
A very distinct species. The broad thin feantiee pe large flowers, and large 
turgid pod separate it from all others. 
6. C. australis, &. Br. in Bot. Reg. xi. (1825) t. 912.— An 
erect much-branched glabrous usually leafless SpEmp 3-12 ft. 
high. Branchlets straight, often much elongated, #,—4in. broad, 
thin and flat, finely and closely striate; notches sorts Biaue 
or rather distant. Leaves seldom seen except on young plants, 
3-2 in. long, 1-foliolate or 38-—5-foliolate ; leaflets obcordate or 
obovate - cuneate, membranous, sessile. Racemes variable in 
length, 3-12-flowered, solitary or fascicled; pedicels puberulous 
or glabrous. Flowers crowded, small, 44 in. long, pale-purplish. 
Calyx campanulate, teeth minute. Standard much broader than 
long, retuse, claw very short; keel equal in length or slightly 
shorter ; wings oblong, almost as long as the keel. Pod oblong, 
compressed, 4-tin. long, suddenly narrowed into a short acute 
beak ; valves "slightly convex ; replum stout, persistent long after 
the enved have fallen. Seeds 1-4, red, usually spotted with 
black.—A. Cunn. Precur. n. 574; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 50; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 50; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 110. C. Cunninghamii, 
Faoul, Choix, t. 288. Boissiwa scolopendrina, A. Rich. Fl. Nowv. 
Zel. 346. 
Var. strictissima, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 110.—Branchlets }-3in. broad. 
Racemes strict, many-flowered, dense. Pedicels very short. Pods not seen. 
Norte Istanp: Abundant from the North Cape to Wanganui and 
Hawke’s Bay. Soutu Istanp: Queen Charlotte Sound, J. Rutland! Var. 
strictissima: White Cliffs, Taranaki, 7. F’. C. Sea-level to 2800 ft. Ma- 
kaka. November—December. 
7. C. Petriei, 7. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 111.—A stout sparingly 
branched shrub 1-6 ft. high, with rigid terete or subterete branches. 
Branchlets stout, 4-4 in. diam., compressed at the tips, plano- 
convex or terete below, grooved or striate. Leaves not seen. 
Racemes laxly 3-8-flowered, solitary or many together, often form- 
ing dense fascicles; pedicels slender, and with the rachis silky- 
pubescent or almost villous. Flowers rather small, tin. long. 
Calyx campanulate, silky; teeth short, broad, acute. Standard 
broader than long, exceeding the keel and wings. Ovary occa- 
sionally pubescent. Pods +-4in. long, broadly oblong, turgid, 
oblique at the tip; valves thick, reticulated; beak short, stout. 
Seeds 1-4, usually 2-3.—C. violacea, Kirk, l.c. 112. 
Var. robusta.—Pods longer, 4-3in., elliptic-oblong. Seeds 3-6. Other 
character much as in the type.—C. robusta, Kirk, l.c. 
