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NortH Istanp: Elevated open country between Lake Taupo, Ngauruhoe, and. 
Ruapehu. Sours Istanp: Nelson to Central Otago, abundant in stony river- valleys. 
Altitudinal range from almost sea-level to 2800 ft. December—January. 
One of the most widely spread species of the genus. Its nearest ally is C. uniflora, 
from which it is separated by the broader and more obtuse branchlets and racemed 
flowers. 
4. ©. Monroi Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 49.—A small excessively 
branched rigid and woody plant, forming flat compact masses 6—24 in. diam. 
or even more, and 2-Gin. high. Branches crowded, very stout, flattened 
with rounded edges, grooved or striate, glabrous or slightly silky, $—} in. 
broad. Leaves only seen on young plants, cuneate or obcordate, emargi- 
nate, silky. Racemes 2-5-flowered, sometimes fascicled and forming a 
lax corymb; pedicels slender. Flowers 4 in. long, reddish-purple. Calyx 
silky, sometimes densely so; teeth broad- or narrow-triangular. Standard 
longer than the keel, ‘broad, emarginate ; wings shorter than the keel. 
Pods 4-% in. long, unusually turgid, straight or curved; valves conspicu- 
ously wrinkled and corrugated when mature; beak short, usually oblique, 
sometimes straight. Seeds 4-14, brownish or reddish-brown mottled with 
darker.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 109; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
112. C. corrugata Col. in Trans. N,Z. Inst. xv (1883) 320. 
SoutH Isuanp: Dry gravelly places on the mountains, Marlborough to Otago, 
not uncommon. Altitudinal range from 250ft. to fully 4000 ft. December— 
February. 
Easily distinguished by the depressed habit, short stout woody branchlets, lax 
racemes, and large remarkably turgid many-seeded pod. Dr. Cockayne, in an interest- 
ing note printed in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 1 (1918) 167, shows that at present several 
apparently distinct varieties are included within the circumscription of the species, 
which has hitherto always heen regarded as exceptionally stable in its characters. 
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5. C. Williamsii 7. Kirk wn Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii (1880) 394.—An 
erect much-branched shrub 6-12 ft. high, according to its discoverer some- 
times reaching 18 ft., with a trunk 4in. diam. Branchlets 4-4 in. broad, 
thin, much compressed, finely and closely striate or grooved, glabrous or 
slightly pubescent when young; notches distant, alternate. Leaves seldom 
produced except on young plants, 1—3-foliolate ; leaflets obovate or ob- 
cordate. Flowers large, ~-lin. long, stated to be yellowish-red by its 
discoverer, but a priltprated specimen that flowered in Wellington had a 
ground colour of pale-yellow adorned with purple lines and a few purple 
blotches, solitary or in 2-6-flowered fascicles or racemes, more or less 
pendulous ; pedicels short, slender, silky. Calyx large, narrow-campanulate, 
silky-pubescent; teeth linear-subulate, acute. Standard rather larger 
than the keel, sharply recurved 3 of the way from the base; wings 
narrow-oblong, faleate, shorter than the keel. Pod 1-1}in. long, on stout 
erect pedicels, oblong, turgid; beak long, straight or oblique: Seeds 9-12, 
red mottled with black.—Students’ FI. (1899) 110; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 112; ZU. N.Z. #l. i (1914) t. 32. 
Nortu Istanp:. East Cape district, from Te Kaha and Raukokere in an easterly 
direction to Hicks Bay, but barely reaching the East Cape, Bishop Williams! Petrie / 
Adams ! Sherwood ! November—December, 
A very distinct species. The broad thin branchlets, large tens and large turgid 
pod separate it from all others. 
