Notospartium.] XXIII. LEGTJMINOSAE. 117 



4. NOTOSPARTIUM, Hook. f. 



Calyx turbinate or campauulate ; teeth 5, short, obtuse or subacute. 



Standard obovate-obcordatej not auricled, longer than the keel, shortly reflexed 



wings oblong, shorter than the keel, with an incurved auricle at the base 



keel hatchet-shaped. Upper stamen free. Ovary sessile or nearly so, linear 



style short, curved ; ovules 7—10. Pod shortly stipitate, straight or falcate, 



linear-elongate, shortly beaked, compressed, membranous, torulose, 5—10- 



jointed, indehiscent. Seeds solitary in the cells, oblong, with a doubly bent 



and twisted radicle, thickened below. Shrubs, with slender compressed flexuous 



or pendulous branchlets. Leaves only developed on very young plants, 1-folio- 



late. Stipules minute. Flowers racemose. 



This ourous endemic genus, which comprises only two species, has the compressed branchlets 

 of Garmichaelia, but differs in habit, and especially in the structure of the pod. In the Handbook 

 the style is said to be ciliated on the upper surface, but I do not find it so. 



Flowers red. Pods crowded, straight . . . . . . . . . . 1. N. Garmichaelia. 



Flowers purple. Pods distant, falcate . . . . . . . . .. i. N. torulosum. 



1. N. Carmichaeliae, Hook. f. in Kew. Joum. Bot. ix. (1857) 176, t. 3. 

 A much-branched shrub, 3ft.— 9ft. high. Leaves only on young plants, 1-folio- 

 late, varying from orbicular to oblong-emarginate, retuse or entire, mucronate. 

 Branchlets ^pin.— ji^in. broad, elongated, pendulous, much compressed. Ra- 

 cemes lin.— 2in. long, 8— 20-flowered or more. Pedicels very slender. Calyx- 

 teeth ciliate. Free portion of filament short. Seeds 2—5, orbicular, reniform. 



SOUTH Island : in ravines and river-valleys. Marlborough: Upper Awatere, Sinctoir. Med- 

 way Greek, T. K. Waihopai River, Monro. Kaikoura Eanges, Buchanan I Nelson : Mount Pyffe, 

 Spencer! " Not found in Canterbury," L. Cockayne I 800ft. to 1,800ft. 



A beautiful plant, which has now become extremely rare. Pink broom. Jan. 



2. N. torulosum, n. s. Much branched, 3ft.-8ft. high. Branches in 

 the mature state pendulous, flexuous or trailing in young plants ; branchlets 

 very long, g^^in.- j^g^in. broad, slender, almost terete, or much compressed, 

 whip-like, striated. Leaves on seedling plants 1-foliolate, obovate, emarginate, 

 jointed to the petiole. Flowers distant, in strict 3— 8-flowered racemes ; 

 rhachis filiform, lin.-2in. long ; pedicels very short. Calyx glabrous, cam- 

 pauulate ; teeth obtuse. Standard narrower than in the preceding species, 

 reflexed; wings slightly exceeding the keel. Pods fin. -lin. long, j^in. wide, 

 distant, falcate, compressed, indehiscent, about 10-seeded ; beak laterally com- 

 pressed at the base, subulate above, curved ; valves torulose, dilated above each 

 seed. Seeds small, reniform, compressed, mottled. — Carmichaelia gracilis, J. B. 

 Armst. in Trans. N.Z.I, xiii. (1880) 336 (flowers only). 



SOUTH Island : Nelson and Canterbury : gorge of the Mason River, Amuri, Saast ! Rev. 

 F. E. Spencer! S. D. Barker! L. Cockayne! Waikari, S. D. Barker! Ravines at the base of 

 Mount Peel, W. E. Barker ! 



I am greatly indebted to all the botanists named for assistance in elucidating this species. 

 S. D. Barker was the first to discover the pod and point out its genus. He states that the plant has 

 the " round-headed habit of a weeping-willow." My specimens are few and imperfect. Distinguished 

 from N. Carmichaeliae by the glabrous calyx, purple flowers, and the torulose or almost torose 

 falcate distant pods. It is said to have been found " on the site of the City of Christohurch," but 

 there is no evidence to support the statement. 



