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THE ART ALBUM OF NEW ZEALAND FLORA. 



3,000 to 5,000 feet, and in old moraines ai'ound Lake Ohau. It is likewise known on 

 the Hawkdun and Mount Ida Ranges, in Otago. This very fine species is at once 

 recognised by its stout, and deeply-grooved branches, and its large flowers, collected into 

 a conijxict head, with woolly calyx, and large lobes. Its name is due to the robust 

 character of its branchlets. 



OTHER SPECIES OF CAEMIGHZSLIA. 



C. MUNROI. {Hook, F.) 



Branchlets stout, slightly, or much compressed, ^ in. diameter, striated, not 

 grooved, quite glabrous. Flowers :^ to |^ in. long, in few lax-flowered racemes. Pedicels 

 very slender. Found half-way up the summit of Macrae's Run. The very stout habit, 

 and lax, large-flowered racemes, best distinguish this plant. It is named in honour of 

 the late Sir D. Munro, a botanist of standing, who has added many beautiful Aljiine 

 species to the New Zealand Flora. 



3. C. NANA. {Col.) 



A very dwarf, glabrous, rigid shrub, two to four feet high, with fascicled leaflets, 

 much compressed, minutely striated (streaked), erect branchlets ^^ to ^ in. diam. Flowers 

 :^ to ^ in. long. Calyx shorter than the slender pedicels, glabrous, or sparsely pilose, lol^es 

 rather large, and obtuse ; bracteoles at the base, minute. Standard about as long as thfi 



Ovary quite glabrous. Pod linear-oblong, ^ to 



^ in. long, with a short straight 



beak, like the pod of C. Aiistralis. It is indigenous to the Northern Island, in the dry 

 mountainous country at the base of Mount Tongariro, and in the Middle Island on the 

 Southern Alps. It is likewise a common plant on the Hawkdun and Mount Ida Ranges, 

 in Otago, and occurs in the Upper Motueka Valley, Nelson. 



4. C. GRANDIFLORA. {Hook, F.) 



A much-branched glabrous shrub, with branchlets round, or comjiressed, -^^ to ^ 



m. 



broad, deeply grooved, often leafy. Its flowers are |- in. diam. long, in peduncled, lax, 

 broad, obtuse, 6 to 8 flowered, glabrous racemes, on slender pedicles half as long as the 

 calyx. The standard is much larger than the wings. Pods in nodding racemes, narrow, 

 oblong, \ in. long, gradually narrowed into a subulate beak, \ in. long. It has two pale 

 brown seeds. The plant is indigenous to the Middle Island, at Milford Sound, the river- 

 beds of the Southern Alps, at an altitude of from 2,500 to 4,500 feet, and in the Otago 



