Notospartium
(from notos, Southern, and Spartium, Broom; in reference to the Broom-like appearance of the plant, and its being a native of the Southern hemisphere). ORD. Leguminosae. A most curious monotypic genus, the species being a beautiful and interesting, half-hardy or greenhouse, leafless shrub or small tree, of Broom-like habit. "This, the 'Pink Broom' of the residents in the Middle Islands of New Zealand, is one of the most beautiful plants in the Colony, and is further remarkable as being a member of what is one of the largest families of plants in every part of the world, except New Zealand. Indeed, the absence of Leguminosae in New Zealand, in contrast especially with their great abundance in Australia, is the most singular feature in the Flora of the Island" (Hooker). It succeeds in a peaty soil, but can also be well grown in turfy loam. No doubt the plant will prove quite hardy in many places in Southern Britain.
N. Carmichaeliae (Carmichael's).* fl. pink, rather small, in many-flowered racemes; calyx campanulate, truncate; standard obovate-obcordate, not auricled at the base; wings oblong, with an incurved auricle at the base, shorter than the keel. Branches slender; branchlets pendulous, whipcord-like. h. sometimes 20ft. 1883. (B. M. 6741.)