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foliate ; the leaflets linear, oblong, or oblong-obtuse, shortly stalked, 

 pubescent, J-^ inch long, very often altogether absent. The flowers are 

 J-i inch long, arranged in dense, globose, axillary fascicles which contain 

 10-20 flowers. The pedicels are about | inch long, slender, densely- 

 clothed with soft grey hairs. The calyx is campanulate or cylindrical, 

 ^ inch long, densely woolly, obscurely two-lipped, with two short subacute 

 teeth in the upper lip, and three similar teeth in the lower lip. The 

 standard is broadly orbicular or oblong, ^ inch diameter, much reflexed. 

 The wings are narrow and much shorter than the keel, oblong, auricled at 

 the base and turned upwards. 



The keel is nearly ^ an inch long, oblong, obtuse, and turned upwards 

 at the point. The stamens are 8-10 in number, the filaments extremely 

 slender, the upper stamen free, the others united into a tube from above the 

 middle and sheathing the ovary. The style 1, much stouter than the 

 stamens, woolly at the base with the point turned upwards. Both the style 

 and the stamens are enclosed in the folds of the keel. The bracteoles are 

 minute, woolly. The pod is about J-|- inch long, deltoid or triangular in 

 outline, splitting into two valves, much compressed, one-seeded, coriaceous, 

 with the surface distinctly reticulated, prolonged above into a broad rounded 

 wing, below into a short, sharp, straight beak. The seed is obloug-reni- 

 form, dark brown, ^ inch long, with a slightly thickened funicle, and double 

 flexured radicle. Ovary villous with white hairs. 



Hah. — The Corallospartium is found in numerous loealities in the 

 alps of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago, at altitudes varying from 2,000 to 

 5,000 feet, but is most common in the Canterbmy Provincial District at 

 about 3,000 feet. It is nowhere very abundant, and is rarely found in fruit. 

 I think it is very probable that other species of this genus will be dis- 

 covered, as there are doubtless very many new plants yet to be found in the 

 South Island. 



None of the numerous specimens examined show any important varia- 

 tions, and it appears that the New Zealand species of Papilionacete are 

 generally much less variable than any other order of the same extent. The 

 difficulties experienced by students of the genus CarinicJmlia arise more 

 from the sameness of the species when dried than from any great tendency 

 to vary. I have carefully examined large numbers of Australian Papilion- 

 aceous plants, but have found none of them in any way resembling this 

 either in flowers or pods, and indeed it seems very certain that there is but 

 a very slight relationship between the Australian and New Zealand Legum- 

 inous plants. Indeed the connections between the floras of New Zealand 

 and Australia have been very much exaggerated by all the writers who have 

 yet paid attention to the subject. 



