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524 LEGUMINOSAE. [Carmachaelia. 
Nortnu Istanp: East Cape, Sinclair; Rotorua, 7. Kirk; Taupo and Hawke’s 
Bay, Colenso ! SoutH Isnanpd: Akaroa, Raoul ; Canterbury Plains, Haast ; Upper 
Clarence Valley, Christensen. Otago—Waitaki Valley, Maniototo Plains, Lake district, 
Petrie ! 
Apparently rare and local. The only North Island specimens I have seen are Mr. 
Colenso’s, collected many years ago, and which must be taken as the type of the species. 
Those from Otago, in Mr. Petrie’s herbarium, differ in the stouter and more strict 
branches and rather longer pods, the beak of which is abruptly bent, forming almost a 
right angle with the pod. It is possible that two species are confounded under the 
name of C. juncea, as Mr. Kirk has suggested; but more complete sets of specimens 
are required to settle the matter. Some interesting information respecting this species 
is given by Dr. Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. | (1918) 165, where he alludes to a variety 
collected by Mr. Christensen in the Upper Clarence Valley, which is said to differ from 
both Colenso’s type and from Petrie’s Otago plant. Not having seen specimens, I leave 
the matter in abeyance for the present, 
21, C. prona 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii (1895) 350.—A small 
much-branched prostrate shrub; stems and branches closely appressed to 
the ground, 4-12 in. long, rarely more. Branchlets 4-74 in.. diam., com- 
pressed, grooved. Leaves often numerous, 1-foliolate or pinnately 3-5- 
foliolate, silky ; terminal leaflet much larger than the rest, oblong or oblong- 
obovate, cuneate at the base, deeply retuse at the tip. Racemes small, 
3—T-flowered ; pedicels short, silky. Flowers minute, 7,-bin. long. Calyx 
campanulate; teeth acute. Standard broader than long, retuse; wings 
shorter than the keel. Pod 3in. long, broadly oblong, turgid; valves 
thin: beak short, abruptly turned upwards. Seed solitary.—Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 119. Huttonella prona 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
116. 
SoutH IsLAND: Canterbury—Lake Lyndon, lat. 2800 ft., J. D. Enys! T. Kirk! 
Cockayne! T. F. C.; stony beach near the mouth of the Rakaia River, Cockayne. 
Sea-level to 2800 ft. December—January. 
3. CHORDOSPARTIUM Cheesem. 
A leafless shrub or small tree. Branches long, slender, pendulous. 
Flowers purple, arranged in many-flowered racemes. Bracts and bracteoles 
small. Calyx-teeth small, subequal or the upper smaller. Standard 
orbicular, reflexed, contracted into a short claw ; wings dolabriform-falcate, 
free, shorter than the standard; keel incurved, obtuse, about the same 
length as the standard. Upper stamen free, the rest connate into a sheath ; 
anthers uniform. Ovary silky, sessile, 3-5-ovulate ; style incurved, inflexed 
at the tip, longitudinally barbed within; stigma minute, terminal. Pod 
short, turgid, rhomboid-ovoid, incurved, indehiscent. Seed solitary or 
rarely 2, transversely oblong; radicle long, with a double flexure. 
A very remarkable plant, in some respects connecting the genera Corallospartium, 
Carmichaelia, and Notospartium. It agrees with the first in the short turgid subrhom- 
boid l-seeded pod, and in the grooved branchlets, but differs altogether in habit, in 
the slender branchlets, and in the markedly different inflorescence. From the section 
Huttonella of Carmichaelia it is separated by the same characters. It entirely corre- 
sponds with Notospartium in habit and inflorescence, and has probably been mistaken 
for that genus in the absence of fruit, which at once distinguishes the two genera. 
_ Although I consider that the characters of Chordospartium fully justify its erection 
into a separate genus, it must be confessed that the differences between it and 
Corallospartium are not of a very pronounced type. If, however, differences of habit, 
inflorescence, &c., are not considered sufficient to separate Corallospartium and Chordo- 
spartiuum, then, by parity of reasoning, similar characters of no greater importance 
cannot be used to distinguish both these groups from the section Huxttonella of 
Carmichaelia, and the three genera must merge into one. Some botanists may prefer 
this course, for it is very much a matter of taste and personal idiosyncrasy whichever 
view is adopted. ; 
