Carmichaelia. | LEGUMINOSAE, 521 
the branches being pendulous), 10-20-flowered, pubescent, especially when 
young. Flowers small, ¢+4in. long. Calyx-teeth short, acute, ciliolate. 
Standard broader than long, about equalling the wings and keel. Ovary 
glabrous. Pod 4-4+in. long, obliquely ovate, abruptly narrowed into a 
long stout subulate beak; valves flat or very slightly convex. Seeds 2, 
rarely more.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 50; T. Kirk Students’ FI. 
(1899) 113; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 115; Jil. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) 
t. 34. 
Var. pilosa 7’. Kirk l.c—Habit and flowers of C. odorata, but ovary silky, and pod 
hairy until nearly mature.—C. pilosa Col. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 50; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 49. East coast of the North Island, Colenso. 
Nortu Istanp: Ruahine Mountains to Cook Strait, not uncommon in the interior. 
SoutH Istanp: Pelorus Sound, 7. Kirk! Nelson—Monro, W. T. L. Travers. 
Ascends to 2500 ft. November-January. 
C’. odorata is separated from C. grandiflora, to which it is closely allied, by the 
drooping slender pubescent branchlets, smaller flowers, and shorter flatter and broader 
pod with a longer beak. C. pilosa has not been gathered since its original discovery 
by Mr. Colenso somewhere on the east coast of the North Island, prior to 1850. Judging 
from the description, it does not differ from CO. odorata except in the pubescent ovary. 
This is a character that has been occasionally noted in several of the species, but which 
does not seem in itself to be sufficient for specific distinction. 
14. C. angustata 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 114A small erect 
glabrous shrub 1-3 ft. high, rarely more; usually leafy in spring and 
summer. Branches spreading, terete, deeply grooved; branchlets very 
slender, »'5-;;1n. broad, sometimes almost filiform, subcompressed at the 
tips. Leaves very variable in size, in young plants sometimes 3-14 in. 
long, pinnately 3-5-foliolate ; leaflets obcordate-cuneate, glaucous beneath ; 
of old plants much smaller. Flowers only seen in an imperfect state, 
minute, ~,-gin. long. Calyx cup-shaped; teeth short and broad, cilio- 
late. Fruiting-racemes numerous, slender, erect or inclined; pods many, 
usually from 15 to 25, according to Mr. Kirk sometimes as many as 40; 
valves flat or slightly convex, gradually narrowed into a short beak. 
Seeds usually 2.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 116. 
Sour ISLAND : Nelson—Valley of the Buller, near the junction of the Lyell, 
T’. Kirk! lower down the valley, nearer Westport, W. Townson / 
A very peculiar little plant, which differs from all the species known to me in the 
large number of pods in the fruiting-raceme. 
15. C. flagelliformis Col. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 51.— 
A much-branched shrub 3-8 ft. high, very variable in habit; branches erect 
or spreading. Branchlets numerous, very slender, ,4,-4,in. broad, erect 
and fastigiate or spreading, sometimes drooping, compressed or plano- 
convex, grooved. Leaves of young plants 1-14in. long, pinnately 3-5- 
foholate ; leaflets oblong-cuneate, notched at the tip; of mature plants 
smaller, usually 3-foliolate. Racemes 1 or 2-3 together, laxly 3-7-flowered, 
often reduced to fascicles; pedicels usually pubescent. Flowers minute, 
;5-$ in. long. Calyx campanulate; teeth small, acute, ciliolate. Stan- 
dard very broad, retuse, about equalling the wings and longer than the 
keel. Pods solitary or several together, {-}in. long, erect, compressed, 
obliquely oblong or ovate, sometimes nearly orbicular; beak long, stout, 
subulate. Seeds 1-4, usually 2.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 50; 
T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 116; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 116. 
C. australis Raoul Chorx (1846) t. 28a (not of R. Br.). CC. multicaulis Col. 
m Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv (1893) 329. C. micrantha Col. lc. xxvi (1894) 
313. Lotus arboreus FPorst. f. Prodr. (1786) n. 258. 
