rowed into a long stout subulate beak; valves flat or very slightly convex. Seeds 2, rarely more.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 50; Kirk, Students' Fl. 113.
Var. pilosa, Kirk, l.c.—Habit and flowers of C. odorata, but ovary silky, and pod hairy until nearly mature.—C. pilosa, Col. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 50; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 49.
North Island: Ruahine Mountains to Cook Strait. South Island: Pelorus Sound, Kirk! Nelson, Monro, Travers. Ascends to 2500 ft. November–January.
Separated from C. grandiflora, to which it is very closely allied, by the drooping slender pubescent branchlets, smaller flowers, and shorter flatter and broader pod with a longer beak. C. pilosa has not been gathered since its original discovery by Mr. Colenso, more than fifty years ago; but, judging from the description, it does not differ from C. odorata except in the pubescent ovary. This is a character which has been occasionally noted in several of the species, but which does not seem in itself to be sufficient for specific distinction.
13. C. angustata, T. Kirk, Students' Fl. 114.—An erect glabrous shrub 1–3 ft. high, leafy in spring and summer; branches spreading, terete. Branchlets 120–112 in. broad, slender, filiform, sometimes compressed at the tips. Leaves glabrous, ¾–1½ in. long, pinnately 3–5-foliolate; leaflets obcordate-cuneate, glaucous beneath. Flowers not seen. Fruiting racemes numerous, spreading or erect, slender, 1–1½ in. long. Pods 20–40, obliquely oblong, compressed, abruptly narrowed into a stout subulate beak. Seeds usually 2.
South Island: Nelson—Plentiful in the Buller Valley, near the junction of the Lyell, Kirk!
I am only acquainted with this plant through the specimens in Mr. Kirk's herbarium. It will probably prove to be a variety of C. odorata, from which it only differs in the less compressed branchlets and in being glabrous. From C. grandiflora it can be distinguished by the more slender habit, terete branchlets, large leaves, and numerous flattened pods.
14. C. flagelliformis, Col. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 51.—A much-branched shrub 3–8 ft. high, very variable in habit; branches erect or spreading. Branchlets numerous, very slender, 120–110 in. broad, erect and fastigiate or spreading, sometimes drooping, compressed or plano-convex, grooved. Leaves of young plants 1–1½ in. long, pinnately 3–5-foliolate; leaflets oblong-cuneate, notched at the tip; of mature plants smaller, usually 3-foliolate. Racemes 1 or 2–3 together, laxly 3–7-flowered, often reduced to fascicles; pedicels usually pubescent. Flowers minute, 110–18 in. long. Calyx campanulate; teeth small, acute, ciliolate. Standard very broad, retuse, about equalling the wings and longer than the keel. Pods solitary or several together, ¼–⅓ in. long, erect, compressed, obliquely oblong or ovate, sometimes nearly orbicular; beak long, stout, subulate. Seeds 1–4, usually 2.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 50; Kirk, Students' Fl. 114. C. australis, Raoul, Choix, t. 28a
