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Title: Plants of New Zealand
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Laing, R. M. (Robert Malcolm), b. 1865 Blackwell, E. W. (Ellen W.)
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: Christchurch : Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd.
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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roduced into Englandin 1831, specimens of it were sold at £5 each. It grows wellin Dunedin, but is apt to be cut back in winter by the moresevere and continuous frosts of Christchurch. The plant—always rare—-is now scarcely ever seen exceptin gardens, and is becoming extinct on the mainland, thoughstill to be found on the cliffs round Lake Waikare-Moana, andon the Great Barrier Island. At one time it was comparativelycommon in the East Cape district, and in the early days it was-seen near the Bay of Islands. It would probably have beenlong ago exterminated, had it not been cultivated by theMaoris, and also by the Europeans. The flowers are pollinatedby birds (cf. Phormium, Sophora, Vite.r, etc.) GetuiH SopJiora. Trees with pinnate leaves, and conspicuous flowers. Calyx inflated.Standard very broad ; wings shorter than the keel. Stamens 10, free. Podangled or 4-winged ; seeds oblong. (Name from So2))iero, the Arabic for apapilionaceous-flowered tree.) PEA, CLOVER, WATTLE, ETC. 211
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Fig. 64. Sophora tetraptera (5 nat. size). 212 PLANTS OF NEW ZEALAND Sophora tetraptera (The Yelloiu Koivhai). A handsome tree, sometimes 40 ft. in height, with pinnate leaves and largegold-coloured blossoms. Leaves curled in bud, like the fronds of a fern. Thetrees are often bare of leaves in the early spring, and the flowers are produced inthe axils of the leafless branches. Leaflets very variable, in from 6-40 pairs.Calyx greenish ; stamens hanging loosely below the petals. Standard scarcelyreflexed. Pods 1 in.-5 in. long, with four membranous wings. Both islands.Fl. Sept. Maori name Kowhai. Var. grandiflora. Trunk sometimes .3 ft. in diameter. Flowers large, deep-coloured ; standard slightly reflexed. Leaflets in 10-25 pairs. Var. microjihylla. Standard not reflexed. Stamens exserted. Leaflets in25-40 pairs. Flowers rather broader than in grandiflora. Var. prostrata. Stems prostrate. Flowers small. Stamens exserted.Leaflets in 2-4 pairs. We have followed the usual practice of bota

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