L E G U M I N S ^1. 411 



Hab. In the district of Hunter's River, and Puen Buen, New South 

 Wales. 



Plant a span or more in height, almost glabrous to the naked eye, 

 under a lens minutely strigose-puberulent. Stems a little woody at the 

 base, slender, erect, branched. Stipules subulate, minute. Leaves 

 pinnate. Leaflets 6 to 12 pairs, obcordate, or cuneate, and deeply 

 emarginate, from a line to a line and a half (seldom 2 lines) in 

 length. Racemes longer than the leaves, 5 or 6 inches long in fruit, 

 including the peduncle, many -flowered. Flowers only 3 lines long. 

 Pedicel recurved, longer than the bract, shorter than the nearly gla- 

 brous calyx; the teeth of the latter much shorter than the tube. 

 Vexillum not callose. Ovary nearly glabrous. Legume ovoid, deflexed 

 glabrous, coriaceous in texture, very turgid, 5 lines long, sessile in the 

 calyx {not stipitate), abruptly pointed with a short incurved beak, few- 

 seeded. 



4. Swainsona monticola, Benth. ined. 

 Hab. Near Puen Buen, New South Wales. 



This is the Lessertia nionticola of Richard Cunningham's collection, 

 and is an undescribed Swainsona. Our collection does not furnish 

 adequate materials for characterizing it. 



43. CARMICHJLIA, R.Br. 

 1. Carmich^lia australis, R. Br. 



Carmichcetia australis, R. Brown, in Bot. Beg. t. 92 ; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 50. 

 C. Cunninghamii, Raoul, PI. N. Zel. p. 29, t. 28, B. 

 Bossicea scolopendria, A. Rich. Bot. Voy. Astrolab. p. 346, non R. Brown. 

 Lotus arboreus, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 52. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. (In fruit only : the var. gran- 

 diflora, Hook, f.) 



