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CARMICH ALIA Australis. 
South-Sea Carmichelia. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lucuminos# Papilionacee. Br. : ees - 
CARMICHZLIA.—Calyzx cyathiformis, 5-dentatus. Ovarium poly- 
Spermum. Stigma simplex. Legumen oligospermum (1-3 sp.), replo post 
apsum valvularum persistente! a 
Frutex ramosissimus, sub statu florescentia sepiis aphyllus. Caulis 
Tamique primarii teretes, teneriores v. plano-compressi v. ancipites, stipulis — 
Minutis alternatim dentati. Folia é dentibus ramorum fruticis junioris, 
ternata v. pinnata, (foliolis 3-7 obcordatis). Racemi simplicissimi é den- 
tculis ramorum ; pedicellz basi bractea abbreviata, apice binis minutissimis. 
lores parvi. Calycis dentes subequales, brevissimi. Petala longitudine 
Subequalia: vexillum lamina latiore quam longiore, basi absque callis auri- 
Culisve ; carina obtusa. Filamenta 1-9 jid.  Antheree uniformes, subovales. 
Ovarium lineare, 5-6 spermum. Stylus subulatus, adscendens. Stigma obtu- 
Sum, imberbe. Semina subreniformia, sinu clauso, umbilico nudo. Brown 
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©. Australis. Brown MSS. H ‘ 
Otus arboreus; leguminibus quinatis,  foliolis obcordatis, caule arboreo. 
Forst. prodr. n. 2.278. Willd. sp. pl. 3,1392, Pers. syn. 2.354, — 
_ °For the above character of this very remarkable genus 
We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Brown, who, for- 
‘nately for science, is in possession of perfectly ripe fruit. 
The plant was originally discovered in 1769, by Sir Joseph 
anks and Dr. Solander, on the eastern side of the 
Northern island of New Zealand, between latitudes 37°— 
9° south; and an excellent description of it, from the- 
land of Dr. Solander, exists in the Banksian Library, 
among the manuscripts of that celebrated voyage, by which 
€ botanical riches of the South Seas were first made 
known to Europe. George Forster, who afterwards met 
with it in Dusky Bay, referred it to the genus Lotus; and 
1t is remarkable enough, that Willdenow, who appears to 
‘ave seen the pods, retains it in the genus where Forster 
Placed it. These differ from the legume either of Lotus 
°r of any other known genus, and offer a new form of fruit 
