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grooved, the grooves tomeatose ; branchlets terete or rarely compressed. Leaves 

 only found on the young plant, 1-foliolate, articulated on short grooved petioles, 

 orbicular or oblong, entire or emarginate, gradually reduced to sessile scales, 

 very fugacious. Fascicles 8-15-flowered, rarely umbellate ; pedicels short, 

 woolly; bracteoles 2, linear, below the base or the calyx or adnate with the 

 calyx-tube. Flowers fin. long ; keel incurved. Style exserted quickly after 

 expansion. — Carmichaelia crassicaulis, Hook, f., Handbk. 48. 



SOUTH Island : mountains of Canterbury and North Otago. Rare and local. Mount Tor- 

 lesse, &o., Lake Lyndon, Lake Oliau, Haast ! Enys I Lindis Pass, Hector! Buchanan t North 

 Central Otago, Petrie. 1,500ft. to 3,000ft. Sticks of the shepherds. Coral-broom. Deo., Jan. 



The robust yellow stems, cream-coloured fascicled flowers, and villous pods distinguish this 

 from all other New Zealand plants. 



Var. racemosa. Branohlets narrow, compressed, |in. broad, flat, edges convex, deeply 

 grooved. Flowers less than Jin. long, similar to the typical form, solitary, or in solitary or fascicled 

 3-5-flowered racemes, but the pedicels shorter, and with the rhaohis and calyx less woolly. Otago : 

 near the Liadis Pass, Buchanan I The small solitary or racemose flowers and much-oompressed 

 branohlets easily differentiate this from the type, but are scarcely sufScietit to confer specific rank. 

 I have only seen one small and imperfect specimen. 



2. CARMICHAELIA, E. Br. 

 Calyx campanulate or turbinate, 5-toothed; teeth nearly equal, imbricate. 

 Standard orbicular or obovate, usually reflexed, claw short ; wings auricled at 

 the base, claw slender. Stamens diadelphous, 9 united by their filaments into 

 a sheath open above, the upper one free. Ovary rarely pubescent, narrowed 

 into a slender beardless style ; stigma minute, terminal ; ovules few or many. 

 Pods usually small, coriaceous, compressed or turgid, 1— 12-seeded ; valves 

 separating from the persistent thickened margins. Radicle with a double fold ; 

 cotyledons fleshy. Depressed or erect shrubs, always leafless after the flowers 

 have fallen. Leaves 1- or pinnately 3— 5-foliolate, in many species restricted to 

 the young plant or reduced to scales. Flowers usually small, solitary or race- 

 mose in the denticulations of the striated branchlets. 



This is perhaps the most characteristic genus in the New Zealand flora. All the species are 

 endemic, and are variously distributed from the North Gape to Southland, ascending from the sea- 

 level to 4,000ft. Many vary to a great extent at diSerent stages of growth, and are often difflcult of 

 identification. Branohlets which, previous to the expansion of the flowers, are severely flattened 

 become terete or semi-terete before the frait is matured. As far as possible it is desirable that the 

 student should obtain both flowers and pqd-! from the same plant, as species with similar branches 

 and flowers may produce dissimilar pods. My herbarium contains fruiting specimens of several 

 forms, apparently undescribed, but, as the flowers are unknown, they must remain for future descrip- 

 tion. With the exception of a single species endemic on Lord Howe's Island, the genus is restricted 

 to New Zealand. 



I. Nana. — Depressed leafless plants with faatigiate compressed branchlets forming dense patclies, 



lin.-4in. high. Flowers red. 



* Branchlets linear or narrow-linear, thin. 

 Flowers solitary or racemose. Pods 1-seeded . . . . . . . . 1. C Enysii. 



Flowers solitary on long peduncles. Pods 3-seeded . . 

 Flowers racemose. Pods 2-i-seeded 



'* Branchlets robust. 

 Flowers racemose. Pods 6-12-seeded 



2. C. uniflora. 



3. C. nana. 



i. C. Monroi. 



