Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: BD 45558A (G. S. 130) described from a cultivated plant sent to Simpson by A. D. McKinnon.

Shrub or tree up to 10 m. tall. Branchlets 3-5 mm. wide, much-compressed, finely grooved, glab. or nearly so. Infl. of solitary, simple or branched racemes on peduncles ± 5 mm. long, 5-10-fld. Fls 4-5 mm. long on pilose pedicels c. 2 mm. long or more; "standard with a purple base, elsewhere striped". Calyx campanulate, c. 2 × 2 mm.; teeth narrow-triangular, sharply pointed. Pods 15-17 × 5-6 mm., narrow-ovate, subturgid, black; beak stout, c. 2 mm. long, slightly curved. Seeds 4-8, orange-red, sparingly black-mottled, ± 2 × 1·5 mm.

DIST.: N. Waipoua River, forest margins.

Known to me only from the type material.