Flora of New Zealand Series

Pink Broom.

Type locality: Mason River, Canterbury. Type: W, Kirk Herb., Gorge of Mason R., Haast.

Shrub up to 4 m. tall, with slender drooping lfless branches; branchlets hardly 2 mm. diam. Racemes slender, open, up to c. 5 cm. long, peduncle and pedicels glabrate. Fls purple-flushed and -veined, not crowded, c. 8 mm. long. Calyx glab. except on the broad obtuse teeth; standard rather narrow. Pods c. 1·5-2.5 cm. long, subterete, hardly 2 mm. diam., strongly torulose; beak long, slender; seeds up to 15 per pod, dark brown, c. 1 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Montane river-valleys from c. 42° 30' to 43° 30', foothills east of divide.