Coriaria.'] 
XXI. COSIARIEJi. 
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slender, bracteolate at the base. Flowers •§— % in. diam., green ; anthers in 
some flowers imperfect. Petals full of purple juice when the fruit is ripe.— - 
C. sarmentosa, Forst. ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2470. 
Abundant throughout the islands, Banks and Solander, etc. Kermadec Island, M‘Gil- 
livray. The so-called berries (fleshy petals) of this and the following species vary much in 
succulence, the less juicy bearing seeds which, according to Colenso, are not poisonous. The 
juice is purple, and affords a grateful beverage to the natives ; and a wine, like elderberry 
wine, has been made from it. The seeds alone are said by some (the whole plant by others) 
to produce convulsions, delirium, and death, like those of the European C. myrtifolia. This 
species is abundant in Chili. The Tua-tutu of Otago. 
2. C. thymifolia, Humb. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 45. A much smaller, annual ?, 
usually more pubescent plant than C. ruscifolia, sometimes only a foot or so 
high, with small, ovate-lanceolate leaves, shorter racemes, and smaller flowers ; 
large forms of it however seem to be connected with smaller ones of the 
former, both in New Zealand and America. 
ComVnon in various dry places throughout the islands, ascending to 5000 ft : Kermadec 
Island, M‘ Gillivray. In America it ranges from Mexico to Peru, at elevations of 4-12,000 ft. 
The small ground Tutu of Otago. 
3. C. angustissima, Hoofc. f. n. sp. A small bright green annual spe- 
cies, 6-18 in. high, with the habit of C. thymifolia, but the branches are gla- 
brous, very slender, more dense, and the leaves are very narrow linear-lanceo- 
late or subulate, f in. long. 
Northern Island: Mount Egmont, Bieffenbach ; top of the Ruahine range, Colenso. 
Middle Island : abundant in subalpine localities from Nelson, Sinclair, to Otago, Hector 
and Buchanan. I think this certainly passes into C. thymifolia, but all my New Zealand 
correspondents regard it as a distinct species. The annual herbaceous Tutu of Otago. 
Order XXII. LEGUMIN0S2E. 
Tribe Papilionacete. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), stipulate, 
mostly compound ; leaflets usually entire. Flowers irregular, hermaphrodite. 
— Calyx 5-toothed or -cleft, or 4-toothed by the union of the upper lobes. 
Corolla papilionaceous, i. e. of 5 petals, the upper (standard) broadest, outside 
in bud, often reflexed ; the 2 next lateral (wings), vertical and parallel ; the 
2 lowest also vertical and parallel within the wings (forming the keel), often 
combined by their lower edges. Stamens 10, 9 usually united into a mem- 
branous tube sheathing the ovary, the upper free, rarely all free. Ovary ses- 
sile or stipitate, generally long, flattened, 1-celled, tapering into a straight or 
upturned style ; stigma small, simple, lateral or capitate. Fruit a 1- or more 
seeded Legume, splitting into 2 valves in all the N. Z. genera, except Carmi- 
chcelia. Seeds exalbuminous ; cotyledons thick, plano-convex ; radicle short. 
A very large tribe, belonging to one of the largest Natural Orders on the globe, which in- 
cludes the Pea, Bean, and all Legumes proper. The Order abounds in Australia, forming 
there a great proportion of the indigenous -vegetation, herbaceous shrubby and arboreous, but 
is less developed in New Zealand than in any other part of. the world, temperate or tropical. 
Shrubs. Leafless, or leaflets in 1-3 pairs. Flowers small ... 1. Cakhichaclia. 
Tree, with pendulous chord-like branchlets, leafless. Flowers pink . 2. Nqtospartium. 
