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120 short, triangular. Pod ¾–1 in. long, linear, 3–8-jointed. Seeds 1 to each joint, orbicular-reniform.—''Bot. Mag. t. 6741; Kirk, Student's Fl.'' 117.

2. N. torulosum, T. Kirk, Students' Fl. 117.—A much-branched glabrous shrub 4–8 ft. high; branches flexuous or trailing in young plants, pendulous in the mature state. Branchlets $1⁄20$–$1⁄15$ in. diam., slender, strict, terete or slightly compressed at the tips, grooved. Leaves only seen in young plants, 1-foliolate, broadly oblong or obovate to orbicular, emarginate. Racemes 1–2 in. long, strict, glabrous. 3–10-flowered; pedicels barely longer than the calyx. Calyx campanulate, glabrous; teeth broad, subacute. Standard narrower than in N. carmichæliæ, reflexed; wings exceeding the keel. Pod ¾–1 in. long, $1⁄15$ in. wide, falcate, compressed, about 8–10-jointed; joints swollen. Seeds 1 to each joint, reniform, compressed.

Glabrous or villous herbs or undershrubs, usually woody below; branches weak, ascending or spreading, sometimes almost climbing. Leaves pinnate; leaflets numerous. Flowers large, red, in pendulous racemes. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Standard acuminate, sharply reflexed over the calyx; wings much shorter, lanceolate or oblong; keel equalling the standard, boat-shaped, incurved, acute. Ovary stipitate; ovules numerous; style subulate, incurved, bearded below the apex. Pod terete, narrow-oblong, turgid, beaked. Seeds numerous, reniform.

Besides the New Zealand species, which is endemic, there is one from Australia, and another (perhaps not truly congeneric) from the island of Ceram.

1. C. puniceus, ''Banks and Sol. ex Lindl. in Trans. Hort. Soc.'' Ser. ii. (1835) 521.—A very handsome much-branched undershrub 3–6 ft. high, more or less clothed with appressed silky pubescence; branches spreading, younger ones succulent, almost herbaceous. Leaves 3–6 in. long, unequally pinnate; leaflets 8-14 pairs, ½–1 in. long, sessile, linear-oblong, obtuse or retuse. Racemes 6–15-flowered, pendulous. Flowers bright-scarlet, 2–3 in. long. Standard ovate, acuminate; wings lanceolate, falcate, acute, less than half