NoTOSPARTiUM, free, with pendulous, cliovd-likc branclilets, leafless — flowers pink ; (3.) 

 Sayainsonia, a herb, with leaflets in several pairs — flowers purple ; (t.) Cltantuu.s, 

 herbaceous undershrub, leaflets in many pairs — flowers large, scarlet; (5.) SoriioiiA, 

 shrubs or trees, leaflets in many pairs — flowers large, yellow. 



GENUS I. 



CARMICH.ELIA. [Bmwii.) The Carmichelias, or Native Brooms. 



Generic C'hakactee. — Slirubs or small trees, usually 

 quite leafless, or leafy in a yourg state only ; branches terete, 

 or more often flattened, grooved, or striate, green. Leaflets, 

 in 1-3 pairs, obeordate. Flowers, small, pink, bluish, or wliite, 

 in small lateral fascicles or racemes, inserted in notches on tlie 

 edges of the branehlets. Calyx, short, eup-shajied, or coui- 

 panidate, truncate, 5-toothed. Standard orbicular, usually 

 reflexed. Wings more or less falcate, obtuse, auricled at the 

 base. Keel, oblong, incurved, obtuse. Upper stjimeu more or 



less free from the others. Ovary, narrowed into a slender 

 curved style, beardless, stigmatiferous at the very tip ; ovules, 

 numerous, 2-seriate. Pod, small, oitlong, or orbiculjir, straight 

 or oblique, with a short or long rigid subulate beak, thick, very 

 coriaceous ; valves o])ening at the tip only, or with the centre 

 falling away from the persistent consolidated edges. Seeds, 

 1-3, oblong or reniform ; funicle not thickened, radicle with 

 a double flexure. — Handbook of New Zealand Flora, p. 4S. 



Description, etc.- — A most singular genus of shrubs, confined to New Zealand. 

 The branches are sometimes round, but more commonly flattened and tape-like. Some 

 of the 2)lants, when in a seedling condititm, are furnished witli unequally pinnate leaves ; 

 but after they are a few weeks old, no more leaves are produced. The flowers are small, 

 very numerous, wbit(% [)ink, lilac, or yellow in colour, and disposed in short racemes. 

 The pods are roundisb, slightly turgid, about half-an-inch long, and contain two 

 or four seeds. They are remarkable in the family on account of a thin partition 

 (repluni) between the valves of the pod, which remains after tbe valves have fallen ; 

 to this partition the seeds are attached. The genus is named in honour of Captain 

 Carmichael, a botanist of rejiute, who puldished an account of the plants of the Island 

 Tristan d'Acunha. The genus is represented by over twelve species, and most probably 

 there may be others. The family is very diflicult to discriminate, and many inter- 

 mediates are known to exist. Those at present known are : — (1.) C. ckassical'lis ; 

 (2.) C. MuxROi; (3.) C. nana; (4.) C. grandiplora; (5.) C. pilosa ; (6.) C. Australis ; 

 (7.) C. odorata; (8). C. plagelliforjiis ; (9.) C. juncea ; (10.) C. enysii ; (11.) 



C. UNIFLORA ; (12.) C. WiLLIAMSII ; (13.) C. KiRKII. 



1. CAllMICHiELIA CRASSICAULIS. {Hook, F.) Tbe Thick-stemmed Carinichelia. 



Specific Chakacter.— Branehlets very robust, eylind- 

 ric, 3 in. diameter, with many deep, parallel, tomentose 

 grooves. Leaies not seen. Flowers in rounded fascicles of 

 S-12, i-J in. long, shortly pcdicelled. Calyx and pedicels 



densely woolly, lobes of the former o\ale, obtuse ; bracteoles 

 at its base minute. Standard, large, reflexed. Ovary densely 

 villous, with white silky hairs. I'od, imknown^. — Handbook of 

 the New Zealand Flora, p. 4H. 



Description. — This plant is an Alpine, and indigenous to the ^Middle Island. It is 

 found on the Mount Torlesse Kange, in the Canterbiu-y district, at an elevation of from 



