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pedicellis medio bracteolatis, ovario sericeo, legumine (vix 2 lin.) obligue orbiculato, rostro parvo. 
Benth. MSS. 
Has. Northern Island. East coast, Colenso. 
Very similar to the C. odorata, but more or less copiously covered with appressed silky hairs, especially on the 
inflorescence and ovarium, which has a longer curved style. The pod of my specimen is not quite ripe, but fully 
formed, and is very broad, obliquely orbicular, one-seeded, and abruptly laterally produced into a curved rostrum 
longer than the valves. This pod is much shorter and broader than in the last, and hairy till nearly ripe. The 
flowers are very small, and apparently quite identical in both species. 
4. Carmichelia flagelliformis, Col.; ramulis floriferis angustis marginatis plano-convexis ultimis 
angustissimis, racemis brevibus subumbellatis, pedicellis infra medium bracteolatis, ovario glabro, legumine 
(2 lin.) oblique orbiculato longe rostrato. Benth. MSS. C. australis, Raoul, t. 28. 
Var. 8; fructu ovato, ramulis fructiferis seepe utrinque leviter compressis. Benth. 
: Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Hast coast, Bidwill, Colenso, Sinclair. Akaroa, Raoul. 
8. East coast, Colenso. Milford Sound, Lyall. 
A slender tree or shrub, 8—14 feet high, with fastigiate top, and pendulous, almost filiform ramuli. Branches 
very long, 1-2 feet long, more slender than in any species but the following, which in this respect closely resembles 
it, much compressed, deeply striated, plane on one side, convex on the other. Zeaves I have not seen. Racemes very 
different from any of the foregoing species, being short, distant, and subumbellate, of four to six very minute flowers, 
pilose; the pedicels bracteolate about the middle. Pods (except those of var. 8) the same shape as in C. pilosa, 
obliquely orbicular, with a stout sharp rostrum placed obliquely, two-seeded, twice as large as in the following 
species.—Those of var. 8 are again larger, longer, and very like those of C. australis, but with a rostrum. 
5. Carmicheelia juncea, Colenso; ramulis floriferis tenuibus tereti-compressis, racemis brevibus sub- 
umbellatis, pedicellis sub calyce bracteolatis, ovario glabro, legumine ovoideo v. oblongo parvo (1-13 lin.) 
breviter rostellato. 
Var. 8; legumine 2 lin. longo. 
Var. y. parviflora ; foribus minimis. Benth. MSS. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. East Cape, Sinclair. Hawkes’ Bay and Taupo, Colenso. 
Akaroa, Raoul. 
Usually a small tree, sometimes procumbent, and spreading along the ground. General appearance very much 
that of the former, and inflorescence similar, being subumbellate, with very small flowers; the branches, however, are 
not so compressed. Pods usually very small, hardly a line long, turgid, with a long curving rostrum; the valves 
turgid, and more membranous than is usual in the genus. 
Gen. III. EDWARDSIA, Satish. 
Calyx inflato-campanulatus, oblique truncatus, obsolete 5-dentatus. Vexillum breve unguiculatum, 
obovatum, emarginatum, basi angulatum. 4/7 oblonge, stipitate. Carina alas subsuperans, obtusa, 
recta; foliolis subconnatis, apice liberis. Stamina 10, libera. Ovarium stipitatum, lineare, 00-ovulatum ; 
stylo attenuato, subincurvo, glabro. Legumen tetrapterum, lineare, moniliforme, 1-loculare, 2-valve, poly- 
spermum ; seminibus estrophiolatis. 
This genus can only be distinguished from Sophora by the purely artificial character, of the four-winged fruit, of 
which no indication is given in the flower or habit, as is the case in the instance of Newrocarpum and Clitoria— Te- 
tragonolobus and Lotus— Cassia alata and Cassia reticulata—Tetrapleura and Piptadenia ; Edwardsia Chilensis must, 
therefore, be restored to Sophora. The oblique calyx occurs in several Sophore; and if we take the exserted stamens 
