Swainsoim.] XXIII. LEGUMINOSAE. 119 



Pedicels short. Calyx 2-bracteolate at the base ; teeth linear, shorter than the 

 tube, ciliate, villous inside. Pod large, inflated, lin. long, narrowed at both 

 ends ; valves coriaceous, thin. Seeds 6-9, small. 



SOUTH Island; Nelson: above Fowler's Pass, Amuri, Travers ! Marlborough: Kaikoura 

 Ranges, &o., Buchanan! Canterbury: source of the Kowhai, Haast! mountains above Broken 

 Kiver and Lake Coleridge, Enys I Otago: Mount St. Bathan's, Pcirie. 2,000ft. to 4,500ft. Dec, 

 Jan. 



A remarkably local plant, but doubtless often overlooked. The flowers are purple. 



* ONOBRYCHIS, Tourn. 

 Calyx-teeth 5, subulate, nearly equal. Leaves shorter than the obhquely-trun- 

 cate keel. Upper filament free. Pod indehiscent, 1-celled, 1-seeded ; lower suture 

 curved, spinous or winged. Perennial herbs or shrubs, wich unequally pinnate leaves 

 and axillary spikes or racemes. 



* O. viciaefolia, Scop., Fl. Gam. ed. 2, ii. 76. Stems erect, 1ft. -2ft. high, 

 pubescent. Leaflets lin.-fin. long, narrow-oblong or obovate, shortly petiolate, muero- 

 nate. Stipules membranous, ovate-acuminate. Eacemes on long erect peduncles, 

 compact. Calyx silky. Keel equalling the standard. Pods almost semicircular ; 

 valves coarsely reticulated ; lower suture toothed or tuberculate. 



SOUTH Island : near Lincoln and Springston. Scarcely naturalised. Sainfoin. Dec, Jan. 

 West and South Europe, North Asia. 



* VICIA, Linn. 



Calyx 5-fid or 5-toothed ; teeth unequal or nearly equal. Wings adnate to the 

 keel. Stamens diadelphous ; tube obliquely truncate. Style inflexed, filiform, gla- 

 brous or downy or bearded underneath below the stigma. Ovules few or many. 

 Pods compressed ; seeds globose, often arillate. Annual or perennial climbing or 

 spreading herbs. Leaves equally pinnate, usually terminating in a simple or 

 branched tendril. Flowers in axillary racemes. 



Stems filiform or very slender. Peduncles long, few-flowered. 



Peduncles 1-2-flowered. Pods 3-4-seeded, glabrous . . . . . . . . * F. gemella. 



Peduncles 1-4-flowered. Pods 5-8-seeded, glabrous . . . . . . . . * V. gracilis. 



Peduncles 1-6-flowered. Pods 2-seeded, hairy . . . . . . ' V. hirsuta. 



Stems stout. Peduncles long, or flowers sessile. 



Peduncles many-flowered. Plov?ers many, drooping . . .. .. .. • V. Cracca. 



Flowers sessile or subsessile. Pods narrow . . . . . . . . * F. sativa. 



Flowers sessile or subsessile. Pods broad . . . . . . . . . . * F. Narbonensis. 



* V. gemella, Crantz, Stirp. Aiistr. ed. '2,,fasc. v. 389. Annual. Stems filiform, 

 2ft.-3ft. long, nearly glabrous. Leaflets in 3-6 pairs, narrow-linear-oblong, mucro- 

 nate, sometimes truncate. Stipules small, entire or 2-fid. Peduncles capillary, 

 equalling or exceeding the leaves, 1-2-flowered. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, the lower 

 slightly exceeding the upper. Standard emarginate. Pod linear-oblong, 3-4;-seeded. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : commonly naturalised on the borders of fields and in bushy 

 places. Smooth tare. Nov. to Jan. Europe. 



* V. gracilis, Loiset, Fl. Gall. ed. i, 460. Similar to the preceding, but the 

 stamens are rather stouter and the leaflets longer, in 3-4 pairs, acute, or truncate and 

 mucronate. Stipules ovate-acuminate, often toothed at the base. Stem, rhachis, 

 leaves, and peduncles usually pubescent. Peduncles exceeding the leaves in fruit, 

 l_4-flowered. Flowers larger than in the preceding. Calyx-teeth unequal, broad at 

 the base, shorter than the tube. Standard emarginate. Pod obliquely acute. Seeds 

 5-8-seeded. 



SOUTH Island ; naturalised. Otago : Taieri Pl,ain, G. M. Thomson I Europe. 



