112 Xxm. LEGUMINOSAE. [Carmickaelia. 



10. C. violacea, n. s. Erect, lft.-2ft. high, distichously branched, 

 glabrous. Branches terete, strongly grooved ; branchlets terete, except at the 

 compressed striated tips, or when very young. Leaves not seen. Racemes 

 iin.— iin. long, 5-8-flowered, solitary or in dense fascicles. Rhachis and pedicels 

 puberulous or silky ; bracteoles minute. Flowers x^gin. long or less (without 

 pedicels). Calyx glabrate or pubescent; teeth short, acute; sinus rounded. 

 Standard and wings exceeding the keel. Standard obovate, claw broad; wings 

 obovate, broad, rounded at the tip; keel toothed, not auricled. Ovary 

 glabrous ; ovules 8—9. Pods about iin. long or more ; beak short, stout. 

 Seeds 2-4(?), mottled. 



SOUTH Island : Coleridge Pass, 2,500£t. to 3,000ft., Enys and T. K. Jan. 



The stout terete deeply-grooved branches and vast profusion of minute violet-coloured flowers 

 enable this plant to be easily recognised. The pods on my specimen are too old for a good descrip- 

 tion, only the naked replum with its attached seeds remaining. The only leaf observed was digi- 

 tately 3-foliolate. The tooth at the base of the keel-petals is unusual. 



11. C. diflfusa, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I, xxv. (1892) 272. Erect, lft.-2ft. 

 high, slender, glabrous, much branched. Branchlets sometimes distichous, com- 

 pressed or plano-convex or almost terete or filiform, ^'^oin— T^g^in. wide, striated. 

 Leaves not seen. Racemes numerous, 3— 6-flowered. Pedicels shorter than the 

 flowers, glabrous, puberulous or silky. " Calyx glabrous, undulate and jagged 

 or ciliate at the margin, which is hardly toothed. Ovary glabrous.^' Pods 

 very small, Jin.— ^in. long, obliquely oblong, slightly narrowed below but not 

 obovate, turgid ; beak short, subulate. Seeds 1, rarely 2, mottled. 



NORTH Island: Wellington: Dry River (pods only), T. K. SOUTH Island: Akarca (pods 

 only), T. K. Otago, Buchanan ! Otepopo River, Petrie! 



A very slender species, varying greatly in habit ; rarely prostrate. When growing on the 

 margins of forests it attains 5£t. to 6£b. in height, with drooping almost filiform branches and few 

 pods, I have not seen flowering specimens. Mr. Petrie states that the pod resembles that of " some 

 states of C.flagelliformis"; but that species has the pod compressed, not turgid, when mature. I 

 have not seen flowers. Much better specimens of this plant are required before a. satisfactory 

 diagnosis can be drawn. 



12. C. virgata, n. s. An erect rigid glabrous shrub, 3ft.— 4ft. high, 

 spreading from the base. Branchlets numerous, terete or rarely plano-convex, 

 grooved. Leaves not seen. Racemes few, 3— 5-flowered, lax, spreading. Rha- 

 chis and pedicels glabrous, puberulous. Calyx glabrous, broadly turbinate ; 

 teeth short, acute. Bracteoles 0. Standard broader than long, rounded, and 

 with the wings exceeding the keel, claw very short and broad ; keel with a 

 very long narrow claw. Ovules 5—6. Pods (immature) on slender spreading 

 or drooping pedicels, oblong, but sharply narrowed below ; beak very short, 

 straight, subulate. Seeds 1 or 2. 



SOUTH Island : Otago, Petrie ! Makarewa and Orepuke, Southland, T. K. Dec, Jan. 

 Distinguished by the paucity of its racemes, small whitish flowers, and oblong pod narrowed 

 at both ends. 



13. C. SUbulata, n. s. Erect, slender, lft.-2ft. high, leafy or leafless. 

 Branches terete; branchlets compressed or plano-convex, g'giii-^i'ai^- broad, 

 rigid, grooved or striated, strict, often elongated, rarely twisted. Lea\'es 



