120 LEGUMINOS2. [| Notospartiwm. 
short, triangular. Pod 3~1in. long, linear, 3-8-jointed. Seeds 1 to 
each joint, orbicular-reniform.—Bot. Mag. t. 6741; Kirk, Student's 
wet: 117. 
Soutu Istanp: Rare and local. Marlborough—Waihopai River, Monro ; 
Upper Awatere, Sinclair; Kaikoura Mountains, Buchanan! Medway Creek, 
Kirk! Nelson—Mount Fyfie, Rev. F. H. Spencer; Amuri, J. B. Armstrong! 
800-2000 ft. Pink broo:n. December—January. 
2. N. torulosum, JT. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 117.— A much- 
branched glabrous shrub 4-8 ft. high; branches flexuous or trail- 
ing in young plants, pendulous in the mature state. Branchlets 
a5—zs in. diam., slender, strict, terete or slightly compressed at the 
tips, grooved. Leaves only seen in young plants, 1-foliolate, 
broadly oblong or obovate to orbicular, emarginate. Racemes 
1-2 in. long, strict, glabrous, 3-10-flowered; pedicels barely longer 
than the calyx. Calyx campanulate, glabrous; teeth broad, sub- 
acute. Standard narrower thanin N. carmichelia, reflexed; wings 
exceeding the keel. Pod 2-1in. long, j, in. wide, faleate, com- 
pressed, about 8—10-jointed ; joints swollen. Seeds 1 to each joint, 
reniform, compressed. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Gorge of the Mason River, Haast! Rev. F. H. 
Spencer, S. D. Barker, Cockayne! Whale’s Back, Cockayne. Canterbury— 
Mount Peel and Waikari, Barker. 
The only specimens I have seen of this curious plant are two fragmentary 
ones past flowering in Mr. Kirk’s herbarium, and some fruiting specimens in 
Mr. Peirie’s, collected by Mr. Cockayne. Better material is required before a 
good description can be prepared. 
4, CLIANTHUS, Banks and Sol. 
Glabrous or villous herbs or undershrubs, usually woody below ; 
branches weak, ascending or spreading. sometimes almost climbing. 
Leaves pinnate; leaflets numerous. Flowers large, red, in pendu- 
lous racemes. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Standard acumi- 
nate, sharply reflexed over the calyx; wings much shorter, lanceo- 
late or oblong; keel equalling the standard, boat-shaped, incurved, 
acute. Ovary stipitate ; ovules numerous; style subulate, incurved, 
bearded below the apex. Pod terete, narrow-oblong, turgid, beaked. 
Seeds numerous, reniform. 
Besides the New Zealand species, which is endemic, there is one from Aus- 
tralia, and another (perhaps not truly congeneric) from the island of Ceram. 
1. C. puniceus, Banks and Sol. ex Lindl. in Trans. Hort. Soe. 
Ser. ii. (1835) 521.—A very handsome much-branched undershrub 
3-6 ft. high, more or less clothed with appressed silky pubescence ; 
branches spreading, younger ones succulent, almost herbaceous. 
Leaves 3-6 in. long, unequally pinnate ; leaflets 8-14 pairs, 3-1 in. 
long, sessile, linear-oblong, obtuse or retuse. Racemes 6—15- 
flowered, pendulous. Flowers bright-scarlet, 2-3 in. long. Standard 
ovate, acuminate ; wings lanceolate, falcate, acute, less than half 
