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C. amtrali et nana subsessili, in cæteris breviter unguiculato. Omla in omnibus speciebus 6- 8.—Genus
e tribu Galegearum, ab omnibus affinibus distinctissimum, babitu [Daviesianim iuter Podalyrias, v. Bossice-
arum inter Genisteas), floribus parvis, et præsertim legumine. G. Bentliam, MSB.
Leafless shrubs or small trees, with woody trunks and compressed or tape-bke branches, which bear impari-
pinnate leaves, in a young state only.—Branches erect or drooping, bearing small racemes of flowers, smooth or
silky at the tips. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, five-toothed. Petals nearly equal in length. Standard orbicular.
Wings falcate, obloug, auriculate at the base. Keel blunt, incu^^æd. Stamens nine uuited, and one free. Ovary
sessile, elongated to an incurved beardless style ; ovules many, in two series. Legume obliquely orbicular, tiu-gid,
rostrate or mucronate, two-valved ; valves attached to a septum, which is persistent and bears one to three seeds.—
This genus is confined to New Zealand : it belongs to a tribe (of the vast Order Leguminosce) called Galegeoe, which
includes Clianthus, but from which it differs totally in habit, and (as from all other Leguminosoe) iu the persistent
rnargiu of the pod. In habit it closely resembles some Acacias of New Holland, and still more closely the
leafless genera Bossioea and Daviesia. The species bave been indicated by Mi‘. Bentham : they are extremely difficult
to distinguish, and require much further elucidation on the spot ; the characters employed appear far too variable.
(Named in honour of Captain Dugald Carmichael, an eminent traveller and Cryptogamic botanist.)
1. Carmichælia australis, Br. ; ramulis floriferis elougatis ancipitibus latis aphyllis, racemis brevibus,
bracteobs sub calyce minutis, ovario glabro, legumine (3-4-lineari) obbque ovato acuto erostri. Benth. MSS.
C. australis, Br. Bot. Reg. t. 912. A. Cunn. Prod. C. Cunningbamii, Raoul, p . 29. t. 28. Bossiæa sco-
lopendra, A. Rich, [non Auct.) Lotus ? arboreus, Forst. De Cand. A. Rich. Genista compressa, Banks
et Sol. Ic. et MSS.
Var. /3. nana; ramubs floriferis brevissimis (1-2-unciabbus) confertis crassiusculis rigidis apbybis.
<y. grandiflora ; calycis dentibus elongatis, floribus magnis, bracteobs calyce impositis, ramulis
fobatis, legumine brevi-rostrato.
H ab. Abundant tbrougbout tbe Islands, Forster, eto. Fl. November. Yar. /S. Dry and mountainous
country at the base of Tongariro, Colenso. Yar. 7 . Milford Sound, Lyall. Nat. name, “ Wakaka" of
tbe northern, and “ Neinei" of the southern tribes of the Northern Island, Lyall. (Cultivated in England.)
A large shrub or small tree, 6-15 feet high, with fastigiate branches. Branches 2 lines to k inch broad, much
flattened. Leaves on young plants imparipinnate, 1 inch long; leaflets oblong or orbicular-obovate or cuneate,
two to four pair, obcordate, deeply bilobed, smooth ; petiole compressed, slender. Racemes |- - f inch long, quite
smooth or sparingly silky, six- to eight-flowered. Flowers 1-1^ bnes long ; peduncles bracteolate above the middle.
Pods 3-4 lines long, obliquely ovate, acute or acuminate, not rostrate ; seeds one to two, black or red.—The variety
3 nana appears a mountain state, but the fruit is unknown.—Yar. y has larger flowers than any species, 2-3 lines
long ; and the bracteoles are placed on the calyx itself ; the pod beaked as in the following species. This forms at
éMilford Sound the food of the ground parrot.
2. Carmichælia odorata, Colenso; ramubs floriferis elongatis crassiusculis rigidis sæpius fobatis,
racemis laxe multifloris, pedicellis infra medium bracteolatis, ovario glabro, legumine (absque rostro 2 bn.
longo) ovato longe rostrato. Benth. MSS.
H ab. Northern Island. East coast, Colenso.
A small bushy tree, distinguished from C. australis by its narrower fastigiate branches, which arc usually vei'y
leafy, larger and more flowered racemes, and smaller pods, which are produced into rostra as long as the valves.
Leaves (on the branches) pubescent, small; pinnules two to three pair, linear-oblong, two-lobcd, 1-1-2 lines long.
Flowers small, sweet-scented ; peduncles bracteolate below the middle. Pods small, pale, obliquely ovate, one-
seeded ; the valves wrinkled, and the septum continued into a sharp nearly straight rostrum.
3. Carmichæba pilosa, Col. ; ramxdis floriferis ancipitibus crassiusculis rigidis aphylbs novclbs pilosis,
pedicellis medio bracteolatis, ovario sericeo, legumine (vix 2 bn.) obbque orbiculato, rostro parvo.
Benth. MSS.
H ab. Northern Island. East coast, Colenso.
Yery similar to the C. odorata, but more or less copiously covered with appressed silky hairs, especially on the
inflorescence and ovarium, which has a longer curved style. The pod of ray specimen is not quite ripe, but fully
formed, and is very broad, obbquely orbicular, one-seeded, and abruptly laterally produced into a curved rostrum
longer than the valves. This pod is much shorter and broader than in the last, aud hairy till nearly ripe. The
flowers are very small, and appai-eutly quite identical iu both species.
4. Carmichælia Jlagelliformis, Col.; ramubs floriferis angustis marginatis plano-convexis ultimis
angustissimis, racemis brevibus subumbellatis, pedicellis infra medium bracteolatis, ovario glabro, legumine
(2 bn.) obbque orbiculato longe rostrato. Benth. MSS. C. australis, Raoul, t. 28.
Yar. /S; fructu ovato, ramubs fructiferis sæpe utrinque leviter compressis. Benth.
H a b . Northern and Middle Islands. East coast, Bidwill, Colenso, Sinclair. Akaroa, Raout.
/S. East coast, Colenso. Milford Sound, Lyall.
A slender tree or shrub, 8-14 feet high, with fastigiate top, and pendulous, almost filiform ramuli. Branches
very long, 1-2 feet long, more slender than iu any species but the following, which m this respect closely resembles
it, much compressed, deeply striated, plane on one side, convex on the other. Leaves I have not seen. Racemes very
different from any of the foregoing species, being short, distant, and subumbellate, of four to six very minute flowers,
pilose ; the pedicels bracteolate about the middle. Pods (except those of var. /3) the same shape as in C. pilosa,
obliquely orbicular, with a stout sharp rostrum placed obliquely, two-seeded, twice as large as in the following
species.—Those of var. /3 are again larger, longer, and very like those of C. australis, but with a rostrum.
5. Carmichæba juncea, Colenso ; ramubs floriferis tenuibus tereti-compressis, racemis brevibus subumbellatis,
pedicebis sub calyce bracteolatis, ovario glabro, legumine ovoideo v. oblongo parvo ( l - I i lin.)
breviter rostcUato.
Yar. /3; legumine 2 bn. longo.
Yar. 7 .parvijlora; floribus minimis. Benth. MSS.
H a b . Northern and Middle Islands. East Cape, Sinclair. Hawkes’ Bay and Taupo, Colenso.
Akaroa, Raoul.
Usually a small tree, sometimes procumbent, and spreading along the gi-ound. General appearance very much
that of the former, and inflorescence similar, being subumbellate, with very small ilowers ; the branches, however, are
not so compressed. Pods usually very small, hardly a line long, turgid, with a long curving rostrum; the valves
turgid, and more membranous than is usual in the genus.
Gen. I I I . EDWARDSIA, Salish.
Calyx inflato-campanulatus, obliijuc truncatus, obsolete 5-dcntatus. Vexillurn breve unguicuhitum,
obovatum, emarginatum, basi aiigulaium. Alee obloiigæ, stipitatæ. Carina alas subsuperans, obtusa,
recta; foliolis subcoimntis, ajhee Ubcris. Stamina LO, libera. Ovarium stipitatum, lineare, 00-ovulatum;
stylo attcnuato, submcurvo, glabro. Legumen tctrapterum, liuearc, moiiiliforme, 1-loculare, 2-valve, puly-
spermum ; seminibus c3troi>luolatis.
Iliis genus cun only he distinguished from Sophora hy the purely artificial character, of the four-winged fruit, of
which no indication is given iu Llie flower or Imlilt, as is ilic case iu tlic instance of Nmrocarpum and Clitoria Tetragomlobus
and Lotus— Cassia alata and Cassia reticulata—Telrapteura am! Piptadenia ; Edwardsia Cldlensis must,
therefore, be restored to Sophora. 'Die oblii|ue calyx occurs in several Sophoroe; and if wc take the exserted stamens