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Yophora bounds carinata Ovo. 5 Jhomsou. 
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& small tree to about 5 m high; older branches 
reddish-brown, rough by old leaf scars, furrowed and 
irregularly covered by\old' pubescence, young 
branches and petioles yellow-green, minutely pubes- 
cent, Leaves 10-18 em. long; 1 cm, broad; leeflets 
Opoosite or subopposite or alternate, 20-40 pairs, 
shortly petiolate, small + 4 mm, long, 2-2.5 tam. 
broad; on young plants smaller, obovate cuneate or 
amost orbicular, dark green and glabrate above, 
lighter green, most minutely pubescent and keeled 
below. Flowers lemon colour, + 5 cm. long, 3-5 on 
a short stipulate rhachis, stipules small, bluntly . 
rounded; rhachis 2 cm, long, pubescent; pedicels 
4 cu. long deflexed, frequently looped, pale yellow-— 
green, pubescent, calyx 1.5 cm. long, yellow-green, 
pubescent, with broad, shallow, red-tipped teeth, 
standard 4.5 em. long, 2.5 cm. broad; wings } mm, 
longer, 1 cm, broad; keel 1 cm. longer than the 
standard, linear oblong; stamens unequal, as long 
as the keel; style equallying the stamens and keel, 
Pods 5-12.cm, long, irregularly interrupted, } winge 
Seeds 4-5, oblong, & wm. x 5 mm. slightly compressed 
pale brown, yellow at the hilum and its margin, — 
Type specimens in the Herbarium, Plant Research 
Bureau, Wellington, collected by Mr. A.W. Wastney at 
Tekaka, Nelson, To eta No ies 72 (1943) bas | 
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Oliv. - (Sophora tetraptera Mill.) 
Hdwardsia tetraptera, (Miller) | 
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T.N.Z.I. vol. 53, p. 364. | 
Edwardsia prostrata, ( Buch.) 
Oliv. ™ (Sophora prostrata, Buch. ) 
z, 
T.N.Z.Is vol. 53, p. 563, 
Paanete | leaflets very numerous, 40-5d pairs, sueruy peuuime, sian, 
i in. long, rarely more, oblong or obovate, sometimes nearly orbicular, 
obtuse or slightly emarginate, when young clothed with fulvous silky hairs. 
