526 LEGUMINOSAE. [ Notospartuum. 
pedicels longer than the calyces, and with the rhachis silky-pubescent. 
Flowers crowded, +4 in. long, pink. Calyx silky; teeth short, triangular. 
Pods 4-2in. long, thin, flat, strongly curved, 3-8-jointed. Seeds 1 to 
each joint, orbicular-reniform.—Bot. Mag. t. 6741; TZ. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 117; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 119; Ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) 
t. 36. 
SoutH Istanp: Apparently confined to the district between the Wairau and 
Awatere Rivers, Marlborough. Waihopai River, Monro; Upper Awatere, Sinclair, 
_T. Kirk! Upcot (Awatere), J. Stevenson / Avondale (near Renwicktown), B. C. Aston / 
Omaka River, near Blenheim, B. C. Aston! 800-2000 ft. - Pink Broom. » December- 
January. 
A very handsome and singular species. 
2. N. glabrescens Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. liii (1921) 366.—A small 
round-headed tree 15-30 ft. high, with a trunk 48in. diam. Lower 
branches usually pendulous; the upper erect or ascending. Branchlets 
compressed, striate, ;4-$in. diam. Inflorescence racemose, very similar 
to that of N. Carmichaeliae, but not so dense, and almost glabrous. 
Racemes 1—2in. long; pedicels short, slender, and with the rhachis quite 
glabrous. Flowers $in. to nearly 4in. long, purplish; calyx glabrous 
or faintly pubescent, teeth short, narrow-triangular. Standard rounded 
in front, marked with numerous delicate purplish veins diverging from 
the base, and with a large purplish blotch covering more than 4 its 
surface. Wings shorter than the keel, oblong, obtuse; claw narrow. 
Pods $—-$in. long, $n, wide, slightly flattened or almost terete, subacute 
or shortly apiculate, not torulose, more or less wrinkled or veined. Seeds 
iz in. diam., red, more or less mottled with black spots. 
SoutH [snanp: Marlborough—Awatere Valley, 7. Kirk ; mouth of Clarence River, 
G, Stevenson / throughout the upper basin of the Clarence River and its tributary valleys, 
B. C. Aston / 
Very closely allied to N. Carmichaeliae, so far as habit and inflorescence are 
concerned. But the larger and nearly terete pods are so different from those of 
N. Carmichaeliae that its separation as a distinct species can hardly be disputed. 
3. N. torulosum 7’. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 117.—A much-branched 
glabrous shrub 4-8 ft. high; branches flexuous or trailing in young plants, 
pendulous in the mature stage. Branchlets very slender, py-;': in. diam., 
terete or slightly compressed at the tips, finely grooved or striate. Leaves 
only seen in young plants, 1-foliolate, broadly oblong or obovate to 
orbicular, emarginate. Inflorescence racemose; the racemes wide apart, 
long and slender, 14-2 in. long or even more; flowers never crowded, 4 in, 
long, much narrower than in N. Carmichaeliae or N. glabrescens, purple. 
Calyx narrow-companulate; teeth short and broad, obtuse, glabrous or 
faintly pubescent. Standard narrower than in the preceding species, with 
a large purple blotch at the base, from which purplish lines radiate to the 
margin; wings rather shorter than the keel. . Pods 3-lin. long, jin. 
wide, straight or falcate, compressed, indehiscent, very strongly torulose, 
joints 6-12 or even more; style long, persistent. Seeds 1 to each joint, 
reniform, compressed.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 120. 
SoutH Istanp: South-east Nelson to mid-Canterbury. Mason River, Haast / 
Spencer, S. D. Barker, Cockayne; Whaleback (Amuri), H. J. Matthews : Mount 
Kautu, Rk. M. Laing! Rakaia Gorge, A. Wall; Mount Peel, H. H. Allan’ R. M. 
Laing. December—January. 
The most distinct species of the genus. The weak slender habit, long few-flowered 
racemes, narrow flowers, and particularly the long and narrow torulose pods are all 
well-marked characters. 
Ta ( quit) 87. 
