116 LEGUMINOS. [Carmichelia. 
rowed into a long stout subulate beak; valves flat or very slightly 
convex. Seeds 2, rarely more. —Handb. N.Z. Fl. 50; Kirk, Stu- 
dents’ Fl. 113. 
Var. pilosa, Kirk, l.c.—Habit and flowers of C. odorata, but ovary silky, 
and pod hairy until nearly mature.-—C. pilosa, Col. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel.i. 50; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 49. 
Norru Isnanp: Ruahine Mountains to Cook Strait. SourH IsLanp: 
Pelorus sound, Kirk! Nelson, Monro, Travers. Ascends to 2500 ft. No- 
vember—January. 
Separated from C. grandiflora, to which it is very closely allied, by the 
drooping slender pubescent branchlets, smaller flowers, and shorter flatter and 
broader pod with a longer beak. C. pilosa has not been gathered since its 
original discovery by Mr. Colenso, more than fifty years ago ; but, judging from 
the description, it does not differ from C. odorata except in the pubescent ovary. 
This is a character which has been occasionally noted in several of the species, 
but which does not seem in itself to be sufficient for specific distinction. 
13. C. angustata, 7. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 114.—An erect gla- 
brous shrub 1-3 ft. high, leafy in spring and summer; branches 
spreading, terete. Branchlets 34-4,in. broad, slender, filiform, 
sometimes compressed at the tips. Leaves glabrous, ?-14 in. long, 
pinnately 3-5-foliolate; leaflets obcordate-cuneate, glaucous be- 
neath. Flowers not seen. Fruiting racemes numerous, spreading 
or erect, slender, 1-ldin. long. Pods 20-40, obliquely oblong, 
compressed, abruptly narrowed into a stout subulate beak. Seeds 
usually 2. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Plentiful in the Buller Valley, near the junction 
‘of the Lyell, Kirk ! 
Tam only acquainted with this plant through the specimens in Mr. Kirk’s 
herbarium. It will probably prove to be a variety of C. odorata, from which 
it only differs in the less compressed branchlets and in being glabrous. From 
C. grandiflora it can be distinguished by the more slender habit, terete 
branchlets, large leaves, and numerous flattened pods. 
14. C. flagelliformis, Col. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 51.— 
A much-branched shrub 3-8ft. high, very variable in habit; 
branches erect or spreading. Branchlets numerous, very slender, 
s5—75 In. broad, erect and fastigiate or spreading, sometimes droop- 
ing, compressed or plano-convex, grooved. Leaves of young plants 
1-14in. long, pinnately 3-d-foliolate; leaflets oblong-cuneate, 
notched at the tip; of mature plants smaller, usually 3-foliolate. 
Racemes 1 or 2-8 together, laxly 3-7-flowered, often reduced to 
fascicles; pedicels usually pubescent. Flowers minute, 4 in. 
long. Calyx campanulate; teeth small, acute, ciliolate. Standard 
very broad, retuse, about equalling the wings and longer than the 
keel. Pods solitary or several together, +in. long, erect, com- 
pressed, obliquely oblong or ovate, sometimes nearly orbicular ; 
beak long, stout, subulate. Seeds 1-4, usually 2—Handb. N.Z. 
Fl. 50; Kerk, Students’ Fl. 114. C. australis, Raoul, Chow, t. 284 
