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faleate or twisted; keel incurved, obtuse vr Uvuuus. + ae 
all connate into a tube; anthers uniform. Ovary shortly stipitate; ovules 
numerous ; style filiform, beardless; stigma terminal. Pod large, oblong 
or linear, 2-valved, with a distinct rib on each valve near the upper suture. 
Seeds rounded or oblong, compressed ; hilum linear. a 
Species about 12; 2 or 3 of them, including the New Zealand one, widely spread in 
the tropics, the remainder mostly American. 
1. ©. obtusifolia DC. Prodr. 11 (1825) 404.—Stems long, trailing, glabrous 
or the young shoots silky-pubescent. Leaflets 2-4 in. long, broadly obovate 
or orbicular, obtuse or emarginate, texture firm. Racemes few-flowered, 
on stout erect peduncles 6-10in. long, usually overtopping the leaves. 
Flowers pinkish. Standard orbicular, 2in. diam. Pod 4-5 in. long by 
lin. broad, the longitudinal wings very narrow. Seeds 2-8.—Benth. Fl. 
Austral. 11 (1864) 256; TZ. Kirk Students’ FI. (1899) 121; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 122. 
KeRMADEC IsLanpDS: Scrambling over rocks and shrubs at Coral Bay, Sunday 
Island, and on Meyer and Napier Islands, JT. F. C., W. R. B. Oliver / 
A common plant on the shores of almost all tropical countries, and abundant on 
both Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. | 
