118 LEGUMINOS&. [Carmchelia. 
fragrant. Calyx somewhat tumid, campanulate, glabrous; teeth 
shallow, acute. Standard broader than long, 2-lobed, about 
equalling the wings; keel-petals much shorter, broad above, claws 
long. Pod 4-1in. long, indehiscent, obovoid, turgid, compressed 
from back to front so that the width is greater than the depth; 
valves reticulate ; beak short, subulate, oblique or recurved. Seeds 
1-2.—Huttonella compacta, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 115. 
SoutH Istanp: Otago—Clutha Valley, between Lake Wakatipu and Clyde, 
Petrie ! November—December. 
‘This can be distinguished from the other species of the section Huttonella 
by the crowded terete branchlets, long and lax racemes of rather large flowers, 
and the larger pod. 
17. C. curta, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv. (18938) 271.— 
An erect sparingly branched glabrous shrub 1-2 ft. high. Branch- 
lets j,—7; in. broad, slender, terete or nearly so, subcompressed at 
the tips, grooved or striate. Leaves not seen. Racemes variable 
in length, distant, 6-10-flowered ; rachis elongating atter flowering ; 
pedicels short, silky. Flowers +in. long. Calyx more or less 
pubescent, campanulate; teeth short, acute. Standard broader 
than long, retuse, exceeding the wings; keel with a short claw. 
Ovary silky. Pod 4-1in. long, pendulous, turgid, oblong-obovoid, 
glabrous when mature; valves thin; beak slender, curved upwards. 
Seeds 2-3.—Huttonella curta, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 116. 
Soutn Istanp: Otago—Waitaki Valley, at Duntroon and Kurow, Petrie ! 
Allied to C. juncea, but separated by the longer distant racemes, larger 
flowers, and larger pod. In none of the flowers which I have examined could I 
find the callosity on the wings mentioned by Mr. Kirk. 
18. C. juncea, Col. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 51.—An erect 
or rarely prostrate glabrous branching shrub 1-2ft. high. Branch- 
lets very slender, ,;-;; in. broad, compressed or almost terete, 
grooved. Leaves not seen. Racemes short, often fascicled, 
2-8-flowered ; pedicels pubescent, rather longer than the calyx. 
Flowers minute, jin. long. Calyx campanulate, silky; teeth 
very small, acute. Standard broader than long, slightly exceeding 
the keel; wings narrow, somewhat shorter. Pod usually inde- 
hiscent, very smali, ;,—;,in. long, oblong or ovoid-oblong, turgid 
or almost inflated; valves thin and membranous; beak slender, 
curved or sharply bent. Seeds 1-2, rarely 3.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 50. 
Huttonella juncea, Kirk, Students” Fl. 116. 
NortuH Istanp: East Cape, Sinclair; Hawke’s Bay and Taupo, Colenso! 
Rotorua, Kirk. Soura Isnanp: Akaroa, Raoul; Canterbury Plains, Haast. 
Otago—Waitaki Valley, Maniototo Plains, Lake District, Petrie ! 
Apparently rare and local. The only North Island specimens I have seen 
are Mr. Colenso’s, collected many years ago, and which must be taken as the 
type of the species. Those from Otago, in Mr. Petrie’s herbarium, differ in 
the stouter and more strict branches and rather longer pods, the beak of: 
