labelled “C. diffusa Petrie. Type of species. Terraces on coast south of Oamaru towards Kakanui Mouth. Habit diffuse and semiprostrate, Waitaki County, D. Petrie.” The branchlets are slender, 1 mm. diam., rounded and compressed. Pods 5 mm. × 3 mm., broadly or obliquely oblong and rounded at the ends, wrinkled by heavy veining, dark brown with heavy pale brown margins, with short, stout, subulate beak. Seeds 1–2 but discoloured. This specimen must be accepted as representing the type of the species pending its rediscovery on the “East Coast of Otago, near the mouth of the Otepopo River.” C. hookeri T. Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. 29, (1896) 506. Stud. Flor. N.Z. (1899) 115. C. flagelliformis var. hookeri Cheesem., Man. N.Z. Flor., (1906) 116, loc. cit., Ed. 2, (1925) 522. A much-branched, erect or somewhat spreading shrub to 2 m. or more high, sparingly leafy except when young; branchlets 1–2 mm. broad, glabrous, plano-convex. Leaves of adult plants pilose, 1.5 cm. long, 3–5 foliate with the petiole equalling or longer than the blade; leaflets small, sessile, obcordate-cuneate, emarginate, often distant. Racemes 2 or more together, subumbellately 3–7 (5) flowered, 2–3 mm. long, stout, green, pubescent; pedicels 1 mm. long, yellow-green, pubescent. Flowers 5 mm. long, 4 mm. broad; calyx 1 mm. diam., green or green spotted with red, pilose, or glabrate except at the base, teeth very small, triangular, reddish; standard much coloured, dark purple at the base, lighter purple on the upper margins, outer lobes white with purplish stripes; keel white, with greenish base, purplish tipped, auricles rounded; wings white, striped with purple, auricles rounded. Ovary glabrous. Pods compressed, ovate-oblong or broadly elliptic, sometimes arcuate, 8 mm. to 1 cm. long, dark brown to almost black, with the margin lighter and stout, beak short, straight, and suddenly pointed or subulate. Seeds 1–6, pale yellowish, dark by heavy black mottling. Habitat: Coastal or near coastal stations, forest margins and remnants of forest. The description is drawn up from specimens in flower and fruit collected by Mr. A. D. Beddie at Porirua Harbour, No. 18 ex the author's herbarium, in the Herbarium Plant Research Bureau, Wellington. Specimens. Auck. Mus. Herb.: Orongorongo Stream, Cheeseman. Dom. Mus. Herb.: Generic No. 224, Nos. 226a, 226, 391, 412, 413, 440, 443, 446, 447, 463, 464. Plant. Res. Bureau Herb.: Nos. 18501, 21629, 23148. Cant. Mus. Herb.: C 28. Author's Herb. Nos. 18, 358, 406, 507, 520. For the greater number the pods of the specimens forwarded to or collected by the author are larger than those described as “¼in to 5–16in long” by Kirk, and the species is not easily confused with any form of C. flagelliformis. Specimens collected in fruit at Eastbourne have slightly smaller pods with seeds having only a small amount of dark mottling, a specimen collected at Porirua Harbour by