i06 XXIII. LEGUMINOSAE. [Lotus. 



" L. angustissimus, L., Sp. PI. 774. Annual. Stems slender, wiry, prostrate ■ 

 or ascending, 6in.-12in. high, glabrate or hairy. Leaflets obovate-oblong. Stipules 

 equalling the leaflets. Heads on short peduncles, 1-3-flowered. Calyx-teeth subu- 

 late, straight in the bud. Pod narrow-linear, many-seeded. 



NORTH Island : Auckland. Local. Cheeseman ! Jan., Feb. Europe, North Africa. 



* INDIGOFERA, Linn. 

 Calyx small; teeth 5, equal. Standard small, silky on the inferior surface; 

 wings coherent, slightly adnate to the keel ; keel erect, spurred or gibbous at the 

 base. Upper stamen free. Pod 1- or several- seeded, septate within. Herbs or 

 shrubs, clothed with appressed hairs. Leaves unequally pinnate, minutely stipulate. 

 Flowers in axillary spikes or racemes. 



*I. viscosa, Lcmi., Encyo. iii. 247. Suffruticose or almost herbaceous, 1ft. 

 high; branchlets, leaves, and pedicels grey with appressed silky hairs, clammy. 

 Leaves unequally pinnate ; leaflets in about six pairs, elliptical-oblong or obovate, 

 mucronate, minutely stipellate. Eacemes axillary, equalling or shorter than the 

 leaves. Calyx campanulate, silky, pilose ; teeth linear-subulate. Style very short. 

 Pods straight, spreading, compressed, 8-10-seeded. 



NORTH Island : in several localities about Auckland, but scarcely naturalised. East 

 Indies, &o. 



*ROBINIA, Linn. 

 Calyx short, 2-lipped, 5-toothed. Standard large, rounded, reflexed, equalling 

 or slightly exceeding the wings and keel. Upper stamen free. Pod linear, flat, 

 margined on the ventral suture, 2-valved, several-seeded. Trees or shrubs, with 

 pinnate leaves and pendulous racemes. 



*R. Pseud-acacia, L., Sp. PL 722. A tall tree, afi'ording timber of great 

 durability. Leaves 6in.-10in. long, unequally pinnate. Stipules converted into 

 spines. Leaflets broadly oblong, stipellate. Base of the petiole protecting the buds 

 of the next season. Plowers large, white. 



NORTH Island : naturalised in several localities. Forming groves above Taupiri, Waikato, 

 and affording good timber. Gobbet's locust-tree, or False acacia. United States. 



1. CORALLOSPARTIUM, J. B. Armst. 

 Calyx turbinate^ woolly, 5-toothed, the superior teeth slightly shorter and 

 broader than the others. Standard large, sharply reflexed; wings falcate, 

 much shorter than the keel. Upper stamen free. Ovary villous, 2— 3-ovulate ; 

 style silky at the base ; stigma minute. Pod deltoid, rounded and winged at 

 the back, shortly beaked, silky or villous ; valves thin, cartilaginous, dehiscence 

 sutural, 1-seeded. Radicle with a double fold ; cotyledons thin. An erect 

 sparingly-branched shrub, with a terete deeply-grooved stem and stout com- 

 pressed or subterete branches and branchlets. Leaves only developed on very 

 young plants, 1-foliolate, fugacious. Flowers in dense fascicles or short 

 racemes in the denticulations of the branches. — Carmichaelia, Hook, f., Handbk. 

 N.Z. Fl. 48. 



A singular monotypio genus, distinguished from Carmichaelia by the absence of the persistent 

 consolidated replum. Mr. Armstrong did not give a technical definition. 



1. C. crassicaule, /. B. Armst. in Trmis. N.Z.I, xiii. (1880) 333. 

 Stems leafless, erect, Ift.-Sl't. higli, terete, yellow, ^iu. in diameter, deeply 



