Carmichaelia.] XXIII. LEGUMlNOSAfi. 113 



3-foliolate ; leaflets sessile, obcordate. Racemes solitary or fascicled, forming 

 loose corymbs. Rhachis and pedicels puberulous or almost silky ; pedicels 

 shorter than the flowers. Calyx campanulate ; teeth short, acute. Standard 

 broader than long, and with the wings equalling the keel. Ovary glabrous; 

 ovules 3-4. Pod jin.— fin. long, subulate, acuminate ; beak short, straight, 

 stout. Seeds usually 2. 



SOUTH Island : Marlborough : Whakamarina, Blenheim, T. K, Nelson : Cheviot, Haast ! 

 Canterbury: Burnham, Lincoln, Akaroa, &o., T. K. Broken River, Enys and T. E. Otago, 

 Buchanan! Sea-level to 2,000ft. Dec, Jan. 



Distinguished from all other species by the slender, strict, almost filiform brauohlets and 

 subulate pods. 



14. C. Kirkii, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Fl. t. 1332. Branches elongated, 

 terete, very slender and flexuous, 2ft.— 3ft. long or more, often subscandent or 

 scrambling over other shrubs, finely grooved, often interlaced. Leaves pin- 

 nately 3-5-foliolate, ^in.— lin. long ; leaflets sessile, orbicular, emarginate, 

 iin. long, glabrous. Racemes laxly 3-5-flowered. Rhachis and pedicels very 

 slender; bracteoles ciliate. Calyx with long narrow deltoid teeth, villous 

 within. Standard broad, 2-lobed, exceeding the keel ; wings equalling the 

 keel. Pod pendulous, 1ft. long, ellipsoidal, with a long straight subulate beak. 

 Seeds 2. Replum stout, broad. — C gTacilis, J. B. Armst. in Trans. N.Z.I. 

 xiii. (1880) 336 (in part). 



SOUTH Island : Canterbury : by the Avon, Christohuroh, Haast ! Cockayne I Otago : rare 

 and local. Oardrona Valley, T. E. Otepopo ; valleys east and west of Rook and Pillar Range, Sow- 

 burn, Petrie .' Nov., Dec. 



Best distinguished by the slender flexuous leafy stems and 2-seeded pod with straight subulate 

 beak. 



15. C. Odorata, Col. ex Hook. /., FL N.Z. i. 50. Erect, 3ft.-8ft. high. 

 Branchlets leafy, distichous, drooping, compressed or plano-convex, gnin.— j^gin. 

 broad, grooved, pubescent towards the tips. Leaves small, pinnately 3— 7-folio- 

 late, pubescent or almost silky, iin.— fin. long; leaflets narrow, cuneate-oblong or 

 cuneate-obcordate, deciduous. Racemes strict, erect, 10— 20-flowered, pubescent 

 or silky in bud. Bracteoles at the base of the calyx. Calyx-teeth acute, short, 

 ciliated. Standard much broader than long, equalling or slightly exceeding the 

 keel, widely refuse. Ovary usually glabrous. Pods in erect racemes, com- 

 pressed, obliquely ovate, narrowed into a short straight subulate beak, 2-seeded. 

 — Handbk. 50. 



NORTH Island : from the Ruahine Range to the Pahau River. SOUTH Island : Pelorus 

 Sound, T. E. Nelson, Monro, Travers. 



A beautiful species — perhaps the tallest of the genus. Much confusion has been caused from 

 the racemes having been described as pendulous : they are invariably erect, but appear pendulous in 

 herbarium specimens owing to their being carried on drooping branchlets. The pods are shorter and 

 broader than in C. grandiflora. 



Var. pilosa (sp-), Col. ex Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 60. Branchlets f^jin.-j^in. wide, much com- 

 pressed, and grooved on both surfaces. Ovary silky. 0. odorata, var. pauciflora, Benth. in Herb. 

 Kew. NORTH Island : east coast, Golenso, Handbk. 



A plant in immature fruit collected by me on the Pahau River (n. 902) was authenticated at 

 Kew as C. pilosa, but the young pods were glabrous. I have not seen the flowers, and consider the 

 plant to be a variety of 0. odorata So far as known to me, C. pilosa has only been collected by Mr, 

 Colenso. The ovary of several species is occasionally silky. 

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