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XXII. LEGIJMINOSiE. 
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Herb, with leaflets in several pairs. Flowers blue 3. Swainsonia. 
Herbaceous. Leaflets in many pairs. Flowers large, scarlet ... 4. Clianthus. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaflets in many pairs. Flowers large, yellow . 5. Edwakdsia. 
1. CARMICHJELIA, Br. 
Shrubs or small trees, usually quite leafless, or leafy in a young state only ; 
branches terete or more often flattened, grooved or striate, green. Leaflets 
in 1-3 pairs, obcordate. Flowers small, pink bluish or white, in small la- 
teral fascicles or racemes, inserted in notches on the edges of the branchlets. 
— Calyx short, cup-shaped or campanulate, truncate, 5-toothed. Standard 
orbicular, usually reflexed. Wings more or less falcate, obtuse, auricled at the 
base. Keel oblong, incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen more or less free from 
the others. Ovary narrowed into a slender curved style, beardless, stigma- 
tiferous at the very tip ; ovules numerous, 2-seriate. Pod small, oblong or 
orbicular, straight or oblique, with a short or long rigid subulate beak, thick, 
very coriaceous ; valves opening at the tip only, or with the centre falling 
away from their persistent consolidated edges. Seeds 1-3, oblong or reni- 
form ; funicle not thickened, radicle with a double flexure. 
A most singular genus, confined to New Zealand, unique as regards the structure of the 
pod, in which the edges of the valves become consolidated, and their faces either open towards 
the tip as valves, or fall altogether away. Besides the species here described (which are 
very difficult of discrimination), I have apparently several others, especially from the Middle 
Island, which may be new, but not having seen fruit, I hesitate to describe them. Inter- 
mediates will probably be found between several of the following. 
* Flowers -j to J in. long. 
Branches cylindric, grooved. Flowers subcapitate. Calyx woolly . . 1 . C. crassicaulis. 
Branches compressed. Flowers in 3-5-flowered, lax, pubescent racemes 2. C. Munroi. 
Dwarf ; branches flat. Flowers in lax, 1-3-tlowered, nearly glabrous ra- 
cemes, with long peduncles .... 3. C. nana. 
Branchlets flat or terete, grooved. Flowers 6-8, subcapitate, glabrous. 4. C. grandijlora. 
** Flowers less than ^ in. long. 
+ Ooary pubescent. 
Branchlets flat, grooved. Flowers 8-12, in erect, silky racemes . . 5. C. pilosa. 
ft Ovary quite glabrous. 
Branchlets flat, striate. Flowers in lax, 5-8-flowered, glabrous or 
slightly pilose racemes. Pod J in., with usually a very short beak. 6. C. australis. 
Branchlets flat or terete. Flowers in erect, 8-12-flowered, very pu- 
bescent racemes. Pod 1 in., with a long, subulate beak .... 7. C. odorala. 
Branchlets very slender, flat. Flowers in lax, 3-6-flowered, pilose racemes 
or fascicles, on slender pedicels. Pods | in., with long straight beak 8. C.JIagellformis. 
Branchlets very slender, terete or flat. F'lowers in small, 2-6-flowered, 
pilose spreading racemes. Pod minute, T Vy-| in 9. C.juncea. 
1. C. crassicaulis. Hook. /., n. sp. Branchlets very robust, cylindric, 
j- in. diam., with many deep, parallel, tomentose grooves. Leaves not seen. 
Flowers in rounded fascicles of 6-12, -J— | in. long, shortly pedicelled. Calyx 
and pedicels densely woolly, lobes of the former ovate obtuse ; bracteoles at 
its base minute. Standard large, reflexed. Ovary densely villous, with white 
silky hairs. Pod unknown. 
Middle Island: Mount Torlesse range, alt. 3500 to 5000 ft., and old moraines round 
Lake Okau, Haast ; Otago, Lindis Pass, Hector and Buchanan. A very fine species, at 
