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112 minutely grooved or striate. Leaves not seen. Racemes 2–4-flowered; pedicels long, very slender, glabrous or with a few silky hairs. Flowers ⅓–½ in. long, purplish-red. Calyx campanulate, usually silky; teeth short, broadly triangular, subacute. Standard broad, with a short broad claw; wings shorter than the keel. Pods ⅓–½ in. long, linear-oblong, often narrowed towards the base; beak short, straight. Seeds 2–6.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 109. C. australis b nana, ''Benth. in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 50.

4. C. Monroi, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 49.—A small excessively branched rigid and woody plant, forming low compact masses 6–24 in. diam. or more and 2–6 in. high. Branchlets crowded, very stout, flattened with rounded edges, grooved, $1⁄8$–$1⁄5$ in. broad. Leaves only seen on young plants, cuneate or obcordate, emarginate, silky. Racemes 2–3-flowered, solitary or fascicled; pedicels long, slender, silky. Flowers ⅓ in. long, purplish-red. Calyx silky, sometimes densely so; teeth long, narrow-triangular, acute. Standard longer than the keel, broad, emarginate; wings shorter than the keel. Pods ⅓–⅔ in. long, unusually turgid, straight or falcate; valves conspicuously wrinkled and corrugated when mature; beak short, usually oblique, sometimes straight. Seeds 4–14, brownish or reddish-brown mottled with darker.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 109. C. corrugata, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xv. (1883) 320.

5. C. Williamsii, ''T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xii. (1880) 394.—An erect much-branched shrub 3–8 ft. high. Branchlets ⅓–½ in. broad, thin, much compressed, finely and closely striate or grooved, glabrous or slightly pubescent when young; notches distant, alternate. Leaves seldom produced except on young plants, 1–3-foliolate; leaflets obovate or obcordate. Flowers large, ¾–1 in. long, yellowish-red, pendulous, solitary or in 2–6-flowered fascicles or racemes; pedicels short, slender, silky. Calyx large, narrow-campanulate or almost tubular, pubescent; teeth linear-subulate, acute. Standard rather larger than the keel, sharply recurved one-third of the way from the base; wings narrow-oblong, falcate,