Carmichaelia.] XXIII. LEGUMINOSAB. 109 



2. C. uniflora, T. Kirk in Gard. Chron. (1884) i. 512. Forming large 

 compact patches lin.— 2iii. high. Stems subterranean, giving off distant slender 

 branches. Branchlets compressed, glabrous, fin.— lin. long, ^in.— ^in. broad ; 

 notches few, distant. Leaves not seen. Flowers solitary, jin. long, on long 

 capillary puberulous peduncles, jointed about the middle, minutely bracteolate. 

 Calyx turbinate or almost campanulate ; teeth very short, acute. Standard large 

 for the size of the flower, slightly reflexed ; wings shorter than the keel. Pod 

 pendulous, about iin. long including the oblique beak, oblong ; valves slightly 

 corrugated. Seeds usually 3.— Trans. N.Z.I, xvi. (1884) 379, t. 31 ; Buch. 

 I.e. 894. C. Suteri, Colenso in Trans. N.Z.I, xxiii. (1890) 383. 



SOUTH Island: mountains of Nelson, Canterbury, and North Otago. Cheviot, Lake Gras- 

 mere, Loohnavar, Poulter Eiver, Enyi I Mount Cook, H. Suter I Waitaki Valley, Buchanan I 

 Head of Lake Hawea, Petrie ! 1,800ft. to 3,000ft. Dec. 



Probably not infrequent. Best distinguished from C. nana by the narrow branchlets, long 

 slender peduncles and solitary flowers. Mr. Colenso described the Mount Cook plant as 7-seeded, 

 but I could only find 3 seeds in pods from that locality. 



3. C. nana, Col. ex Hook. /., Handbk. N.Z. Fl. 49. Forming broad 

 patches. Branchlets 2in.-4in. high, thin, much compressed, strict, erect, 

 j-^in.— ^in. broad. Leaves not seen. Racemes 2-5-flowered. Pedicels long, 

 slender. Flowers Jin.— Mn. long, red. Calyx campanulate; teeth broadly 

 deltoid, subacute. Standard with a short broad claw, broadly oblong, deeply 

 emarginate ; wings broad, shorter than the keel. Ovary glabrous. Pod Jin. in 

 length, linear-oblong, as long as the expanded flower, narrowed at the base ; 

 beak short, straight. Seeds 2—4, black. — C. australis /3 nana, Benth. in 

 Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 50. 



NORTH Island : open country, Lake Taupo, Ngaurahoe, Tongariro, Euapehu, &c. SOUTH 

 Island : abundant. Nelson to central Otago. Descends to within 100ft. of sea-level ; ascends to 

 2,500£t. Dec. 



Distinguished from C. uniflora by the broader more obtuse branchlets and large racemose 

 flowers. 



4. C. Monroi, Hook, f., Handbk. N.Z. Fl. 49. Excessively branched, 

 forming compact hemispherical masses, 3in.— 6in. high. Branchlets crowded, 

 very stout, ^in.— Jin. broad, grooved. Leaves only seen on very young plants, 

 cuneate or obovate, emarginate, silky, fugacious. Racemes 2-3-flowered, but 

 sometimes fascicled, rarely forming a lax corymb. Pedicels long and slender. 



' Calyx funnel-shaped ; teeth linear-subulate, acute, nearly equalling the tube, 

 ciliated. Standard exceeding the keel, deeply emarginate, claw narrow; wings 

 shorter than the keel. Pod falcate or nearly straight, Jin.— fin. long, often 

 narrowed at the base, remarkably turgid; valves strongly corrugated when 

 mature; teeth very short, straight or oblique. Seeds 4-12, mottled. — C. cor- 

 Tugala, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xv. (1882) 320. 



SOUTH Island : Marlborough : Wairau and Awatere Valleys. Canterbury : Broken River 

 iBasin, Upper Waimakariri, Poulter Valley, &o. Otago : Kurow, Mount Ida &o., mountains of Lake 

 district &c. 200ft. to 4,500ft. Dec, Jan. 



Distinguished from all the species of this section by the stout branchlets, lax racemes, and 

 linear-subulate oalyx-teeth. The flowers are smaller than those of 0. nana, and red, as in all the 

 species of this section. 



