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quite glabrous ; style hooked. Pod very minute, T y~iV in. long, turgid, ovoid- 
oblong, with a slender, curved, subulate beak. Seeds not seen. 
Northern Island: East Cape, Sinclair ; east coast, Hawke’s Bay and Taupo, Co/ensc 
Middle Island : Akaroa , Raoul ; Canterbury plains, Travers. 
2. NOTOSPARTXTJM, Hook. f. 
A shrub or small tree, with slender branches and pendulous branchlets like 
whipcord. Leaves not seen. Flowers rather small. — (Jalyx campanulate, 
truncate; teeth 5, short. Standard obovate-obcordate, not auricled at the 
base. Wings oblong, with an incurved auricle at the base, shorter than the 
hatchet-shaped keel. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary nearly sessile, linear, 
tapering into a curved style, which is ciliated on the inner margin ; ovules 
8-10. Pod shortly stipitate, linear-elongate, with a slender style, curved, 
torulose, compressed, membranous, indehiscent, many -jointed, many-seeded. 
Seeds solitary in the cells, oblong, with a doubly-bent and twisted club- 
shaped radicle. 
A most curions genus, allied in habit, and many other respects, to Carmichrelia, but 
widely differing from it, and from all others known to me. 
1. IV. Carmichselise, Rook. f. in Kew Journ. Bot. ix. 176. t. 3. A 
small tree, with weeping branches and pink flowers. Branchlets 1 ft. or 
more long, compressed, grooved, T y in. broad, remotely toothed, giving oil' 
at the teeth many-flowered racemes 1-ljr in. long. Peduncle and short 
pedicels pubescent. Flowers a in. long. Pods 1 in. long, T y broad. 
Middle Island : Canterbury province, Waitls ; sandy and rocky places on the "VVaihopai 
river, Munro ; Upper Awatere, Sinclair , "Pink Broom.” 
3. SWAINSONIA, Salisbury. 
I Herbs ; stems prostrate erect or climbing, sometimes woody at the base. 
Leaves unequally-pinnate, stipulate; leaflets many. Flowers in axillary 
peduncled racemes. — Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Standard broad, open 
or reflexed, orbicular. Wings narrow, auricled at the base, as long as or 
shorter than the obtuse keel. Style slender, bearded on the upper or inner 
edge ; ovules many. Pod ovate oblong or terete, inflated or turgid, acute. 
Seeds rather small. 
A large Australian genns, representing Astragalus of other parts of the world, from which 
it is distinguished chiefly by the broader, more expanded standard. 
1. S. novae-Zelandise, Rook. /., n. sp. A small, low, sparingly- 
branched herb, covered with minute silky pubescence ; branches 2-4 in. long. 
Leaves 1-2 in. long; leaflets opposite, £ in. long, sessile, obovate-oblong, 
obtuse or refuse; stipules ovate, obtuse. Peduncle 1 in. long, bearing 5-8 
racemed flowers. Flowers purple, -j in. long; pedicels rather shorter than 
the calyx, bracteate at the base. Calyx with rather long teeth, villous within 
and on the edges, 2-bracteolate. Standard without callosities ; keel and 
wings nearly equal, straight. Pod large, nearly 1 in. long, broad, acute at 
both ends, puberulous ; valves thin, coriaceous. Seeds small. 
Middle Island : sources of the Kowai, in shingly river-beds, alt. 2000-2500 ft., Raasf. 
Very nearly allied to the Tasmanian S. IcssertiaJ’olia, which is a larger plant, with many- 
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