Corullospartium.] - LEGUMINOSAE. 513 
SuBFAMILY PAPILIONACEAKE. 
All the indigenous genera belong to this subfamily, which is characterized 
as follows: Corolla irregular and papilionaceous, seldom almost regular. 
Petals imbricate, the uppermost (or standard) always outside in the bud. 
Stamens definite, usually 10. 
* Shrubs, sometimes very small: branches flattened, compressed or nearly terete, 
grooved or striate, leafless or nearly so when adult. 
Branches stout, terete, deeply grooved. Pods compressed, 
l-seeded, dehiscing along the sutures oa S .. 1, CORALLOSPARTIUM. 
Branchlets compressed or terete. Pods short, few-seeded ; valves 
falling away from the persistent thickened sutures, to which 
the seeds remain attached, or rarely the pod is indehiscent .. 
Branchlets terete or subcompressed, slender, pendulous. Pods 
short, 4in. long, orbicular-rhomboid. Seed solitary .. 93& CHORDOSPARTIUM. 
Branchlets terete or compressed, slender, pendulous. Pods 
narrow-linear, torulose, 2-10-seeded, indehiscent ef 
i) 
. CARMICHAELIA, 
4, NoOTOSPARTIUM. 
** Branches not flattened nor compressed, leafy. 
Shrub. Racemes pendulous; flowers large, crimson. Pod 
terete, many-seeced Re — - ee .. 5, CLIANTHUS. 
Small alpine herb. Racemes erect. Pod membranous, inflated 6, SwWAINSONA. 
Large twiner. Leaves 3-foliolate. Calyx 2-lipped. Stamens 
monadelphous. Pod large and broad a uP .. 7. CANAVALIA. 
Tree or shrub. Leaves pinnate with many leaflets. Racemes 
pendulous. Flowers large, yellow. Stamens free. Pod 
moniliform 8. SOPHORA. 
1. CORALLOSPARTIUM J. B. Armstrong. ISB!. . 
A leafless shrub. Stems and branches stout, cylindric, deeply .grooved. 
Flowers in dense fascicles at the notches of the branchlets. Calyx woolly, 
campanulate, 5-toothed; teeth about equal. eo large, broad, 
reflexed, contracted into a short claw. Wings Milcate, oblong, obtuse, 
auricled towards the base, shorter than the keel. Keel about equalling 
the standard, incurved, oblong, obtuse. Upper stamen free, the: others 
connate into a sheath. Ovary densely villous; style silky at the base ; 
ovules 2-4. Pod 2-valved, deltoid, rounded and wingBd at the back, 
straight in front, shortly beaked, villous; valves thin, faintly reticulated, 
edges not thickened nor consolidated into a replum. Seed solitary or 
rarely 2, reniform; radicle with a double flexure. 
A genus of a single species, endemic in New Zealand. It. is technically 
separated from Carmichaelia by the 2-valved pod without a persistent replum. 
(Heer -§°) 
1. C. erassicaule//. B. Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii (1881) 333.— 
Stems erect, 1-6 it. high, 4-2in. diam., sparingly branched, yellow, stout, 
erect, cylindrical, with numerous parallel tomentose grooves; branchlets 
compressed at the tips. Leaves rarely seen on mature plants, when 
present very fugacious, small, linear-oblong or ovate-oblong; of young 
plants broadly oblong or almost orbicular, entire or emarginate. Fascicles 
capitate, densely 8-20-flowered ; pedicles short, slender, and with the 
calyces softly woolly. Flowers }-$in, long, cream-coloured. Pod Hin. 
long, indehiscent.—T7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 106; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fi. (1906) 108; Lil. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 31. Carmichaelia crassicaulis Hook. 
f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 48. 
de) Var. racemosa 7’. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 107.—Branchlets narrower, } in. broad, 
compressed. Flowers less than jin. long, solitary or in 3-5-flowered racemes, which 
are solitary or fascicled, Pedicels and calyx not so woolly. 
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