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Calyx tumid 5-toothed, with a wide shallow sinus between the teeth. 
Corolla white and pink, rather large. 
- Ovary glabrous. Pod boat-shaped, obovate in outline, 1 inch long, 
nearly twice as long as broad, flattened, transversely wrinkled, upturned at 
the tip, which suddenly contracts and ends in a short semi-erect subulate 
beak ; grey or brownish-grey, when quite ripe. 
Seeds small solitary (rarely two in a pod), reniform, grey mottled with 
dark brown or black. 
Hab. Kawarau Gorge and Dunstan Gorge, Clutha River, Otago. 
This species has close affinity to C. juncea, Col. 
The species of Carmichalia native to Otago appear to be the following :— 
1. C. crassicaulis, Hook. f. 
C. nana, Colenso. 
C. grandiflora, Hook. f. 
C. odorata, Col. 
C. flagelliformis, Col. 
C. juncea, Col. 
C. kirkii, Hook. f. 
C. uniflora, Kirk. 
C. compacta, mihi. 
C. enysii (?), Kirk. 
Of these C. crassicaulis appears to be confined to the Hawkdun and Mount 
Ida Ranges, and a triangular area extending southwards from them to the 
Lammerlaw. I believe it grows also on the Waitaki side of the ranges 
named. I have never seen it elsewhere in Otago. It is a common plant in 
the localities where it is met with. 
C. nana has a wide range in the north and interior of Otago, and extends 
to the coast in the Kakanui and Waitaki River valleys. It grows chiefly in 
shingly and alluvial flats, where it is often very abundant, and its strong 
matted roots and creeping stems form an obstacle to breaking-up the 
ground. 
C. grandiflora is reported from the Lake District by Hector and Buchanan, 
but I have never gathered it there, or indeed elsewhere in Otago. My visits 
to the interior have, however, always been late in the season. 
C. odorata is common in the Maniototo and Manuherikia Plains and also 
in the central and higher parts of the Clutha Valley. It grows up to 2,500 
feet in the neighbourhood of Naseby. 
C. flagelliformis is the usual form in the south of Otago and near the 
coast from Oamaru to Foveaux Straits. It is very plentiful in the Tuapeka 
District and also on the ridges north of Balclutha. 
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