Sophora.'] 
XXII. LEGUMINOS.E. 
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silky. Calyx rather gibbous, 5 — | in. long, hemispherical or urceoiate, mouth 
very oblique. Standard hardly reflected, always short obtuse. Wings linear- 
oblong. Keel nearly straight. Pods 1-5 in. long, the joints oblong, 4-angled, 
with 4 membranous wings, the outer walls separating from the coriaceous 
inner ; valves hardly dehiscent. Seeds oblong, pale yellow-brown ; cotyle- 
dons almost consolidated. 
Var. a. grandijlora. Larger and more robust. Trunk sometimes 1-3 feet diam. Leaflets 
iu 10-30 pairs, usually narrow. Flowers 2 in. long, narrower. Standard j shorter than the 
wings. — S. telraptera , Bot. Mag. t. 167 ; Edwardsia grandijlora, Salisb. 
Var. , 8 . microphylla. Smaller ; young branches very slender and flexuose, with few obcor- 
date membranous leaflets. Leaflets of old plants in 30-40 pairs, oblong-obcordate. Flowers 
1-1 i in. long, broader. Standard little shorter than the wings. — S. microphylla, Jacq. Hort. 
Schaenb. t. 269 ; Edwardsia microphylla , and Macnabiana, Bot. Mag. t. 1442 and 3735. 
Abundant throughout the islands, Banks and Solander, etc. I am quite unable to lind 
permanent characters whereby to distinguish the two varieties, the wild specimens presenting 
intermediate ones ; the extreme forms are very distinct, and remain so under cultivation. 
The var. /3, and forms approaching a, are both common in South Chili and Juan Fernandez. 
Wood of var. a valuable for fencing and veneers ; heartwood red, Buchanan. 
Amongst the many cultivated Leguminosce, several have run wild in New Zealand, and the 
number of colouists will annually increase ; the only one known to me, however, as being 
generally diffused, is the common White Clover ( Trifolium repens, Linn.). 
Eutaxia Stranyeana, Turczaniuow (Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 1853, vol. ii. p. 270), is stated 
by its author to have been discovered in New Zealand, no doubt through some blunder ; the 
genus is exclusively a West Australian one. 
Guilandina Bonduc, Linn., a tropical, prickly, climbing, pinnate-leaved shrub, is stated by 
Forster to be a native of New Zealand, but erroneously. 
Order XXIII. ROSACEA. 
Herbs shrubs or trees, erect or climbing ; stems sometimes prickly or spinose. 
Leaves alternate, simple or compound, stipulate. Flowers regular, usually her- 
maphrodite. — Calyx-tube short and open, or urceoiate and enclosing the carpels ; 
lobes 4 or 5 or 0, often valvate. Petals 4 or 5, rarely 0, spreading, imbri- 
cate. Stamens numerous, few in Acoena, free, inserted on a perigynous ring 
or on the mouth of the calyx-tube ; filaments subulate ; anthers short, didy- 
mous. Carpels 1 or more, 1 -celled, small, enclosed in the calyx-tube, or free and 
clustered on a torus ; style lateral basal or terminal, stigma capitate ; ovules 
1 or 2. Fruit of 1 or more small achenes, free or enclosed in the calyx-tube, 
or of many small free succulent drupes. Seeds exalbuminous ; testa mem- 
branous ; cotyledons plano-convex, radicle short. 
The above description applies chiefly to the New Zealand genera of this very extensive 
and universally-distributed Order, which embraces several tribes (including those of the 
Apple, Rose, Peach, Cherry, Strawberry, etc., in some of which the calyx is apparently in- 
ferior) that do not occur in these islands, and differ in some respects from the character above 
given. 
Shrub, with climbing prickly stems. Fruit of many small drupes . . 1. Rubus. 
Herb, with pinnate leaves. Achenes many, with short styles .... 2. Potentilla. 
Herbs, with simple or pinnate leaves. Achenes many, with elongated 
bent styles 3. Geum. 
Herbs, with pinnate leaves. Achenes 1 or 2, enclosed in the calyx-tube . 4. Ac/ena. 
