394 Transactions. — Botany. 



while it is less stout than that of B. sinclairii, from which it is further 

 distinguished by its singular habit. 



Occasionally the leaves are reduced to three linear segments. 



Banuncuhis enysii. 



Glabrous in all its parts. Leaves all radical, on long slender petioles, 

 3"-6" long, 3-5-foliate, leaflets on slender pedicels, tripartite or nearly 

 simple, segments cuneate, trilobate, toothed, teeth acute, marguis thickened. 

 Scapes 3-5, naked, simple, 1-flowered, .5"-12" long, or rarely with a solitary 

 branch springing from the axil of a reduced leaf. Flower f " in diameter, 

 sepals 5, broadly ovate acute. Petals 5-10, broadly obovate. Achenes small, 

 in dense globose heads, glabrous, ovate, with a short slender curved beak ; 

 testa minutely reticulate. 



iJrti.— South Island ; TreHssick, Canterbury, 2-3000 feet— J. B. Enys. 



Very different in appearance from any other New Zealand species, 

 although in some respects it approaches the typical form of B. Iap2)aceus, 

 Sm., the styles, however, are never recurved, and the carpels are not 

 keeled, as m that species ; the heads are more truly globose, and, with the 

 glabrous highly-divided leaves, afford subordinate distinctive characters of 

 some importance. The rounded carpels distinguish it from Bu plebeius, Br., 

 and the minute curved styles from B. geraniifolins, Hook. f. 



Leguminosje. 

 CarmichcBlia unUiamsi. 

 A leafless shrub. Branches excessively compressed, |"-f" broad, thin, 

 with numerous parallel grooves, minutely pubescent when young, hoary, or 

 silky ; notches alternate, distant. Leaves unknown. Flowers sparingly 

 produced, solitary or 2-3-flowered fascicles, very large, with the pedicels 

 fully 1" long, pedicels slender, silky. Calyx large, 5-toothed, acute, pubes- 

 cent ; corolla sharply curved upward, petals acute ; stamens diadelphous ; 

 ovary shortly stipitate, glabrous ; style long, curved, stigma capitate. Pod 

 unknown. 



Hah. — North Island : Kaukokore Bay, Bay of Plenty, Hicks' Bay — 

 Archdeacon W. L. Williams. 



This fine species, in all respects the largest of the genus, is allied to C. 

 nana, Hook, f., in the structure of the flowers, but entirely lacks the rigidity 

 of that species. It will be interesting to learn if it resembles its ally in the 

 turgid pod. 



The branches are very thin for so large a plant, the notches are more 

 distant than in any other species, and in the yomig state carry a single 

 triangular scale, exactly as in C. nana, but in old branches the single scale 

 is replaced by an aggregated mass of shorter scales, sometimes attaining the 

 size of a small pea. The upper part of the vexillum forms a right angle 



