52 xxii. leguminosau [ Swainsonia . 
flowered racemes, more obtuse shorter calyx-teeth, less villous within, usually more abundant 
blackish hairs on the inflorescence, and more curved keel. 
4. CLIANTHUS, Solander. 
Herbs ; stems woody below, branches often trailing. Leaves pinnate, 
stipuled; leaflets many pairs. Flowers large, red, in pendulous racemes. 
— Calyx campanulate, 5 -toothed. Standard ovate, reflexed, about as long 
as the keel. Wings oblong or lanceolate, auricled at the base, shorter 
than the boat-shaped keel. Ovary stipitate ; style ciliated below the apex ; 
ovules numerous. Pod stipitate, terete, narrow-oblong, turgid, rostrate, 
many-seeded. 
A genus of most beautiful plants, consisting of an Australian (Sturt’s Pea) and a New 
Zealand species. 
1. C. puniceus, San/cs and Sol.; — FI. N. Z. i. 49. A branching, her- 
baceous undershrub, with prostrate or reclining branches, more or less covered 
with silky appressed hairs. Leaves 4-6 in. long, unequally pinnate. Leaflets 
in 10-14 pairs, alternate, sessile, 1 in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse ; stipules 
triangular. Flowers 6-15 in a raceme, scarlet, pendulous, 2 in. long. Calyx 
■J— j in. long. Standard ovate, acuminate, reflexed when fully expanded. 
Wings falcate, acute or obtuse, half as long as the standard. Keel very large, 
boat-shaped, falcate, narrowed into a long beak. — Bot. Reg. t. 1775. 
Northern Island: east coast, Banks and Solander , etc., and various other localities, 
especially near native dwellings, etc. One of the most beautiful plants known ; often culti- 
vated in European greenhouses ; variable in depth of colour of flower. 
5. SOPHORA, Linn. 
Small trees or twiggy shrubs. Leaflets in many pairs. Flowers pendu- 
lous, large, yellow in the N. Z. species. — Calyx rather inflated, urceolate 
hemispherical or campanulate ; mouth oblique, obscurely 5-tootlied. Stan- 
dard obovate, very broad, shortly clawed. Wings oblong, stipitate, shorter 
than the straight obtuse keel. Stamens 10, all free. Ovary stipitate, linear; 
style slender, slightly curved, glabrous, stigma minute ; ovules numerous. 
Pod stipitate, elongate, moniliform terete angled or 4-winged, indehiscent 
or 2-valved, few- or many-seeded. Seeds oblong ; funicle not thickened. 
A very large genus of tropical, subtropical, and Central Asiatic trees, of which the species 
with 4-winged pods were separated as Eduiardsia, before it was discovered that the genus 
presents pods of all intermediate forms between terete, 4-angled, and 4-winged. 
1. S. tetraptera, Alton ; — Edwardsia grandiflora, Salisb. ; FI. N. Z. 
i. 52. A small or middling-sized tree, variable in habit, foliage, and size of 
flower; branches in young plants slender, flexuose, in old straight, densely 
covered with fulvous silky tomentum. Leaves exstipulate, 1-6 in. long, pe- 
tiole slender or stout, covered with silky or ferruginous hairs; leaflets 6-40 
pairs, very variable, from broadly obcordate to linear-oblong, i f in. long, 
rounded refuse or 2-lobed at the tip, on young plants smaller broader gla- 
brous and membranous, in old silky or densely villous on one or both sur- 
faces. Flowers 1-2 in. long, yellow, in axillary, pendulous, 4-8-flowered 
racemes ; peduncles short, pedicels i-l| in. long, flexuose, and calyx densely 
