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POMADERRIS ANDROMEDAEFOLIA. ANDRO 
MEDA-LEAVEB POMADERRIS. 
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Class and Order. 
PentanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord —Ruamnez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. semiadherens 5-fidus. Pet. 5 squamiformia, con- 
cava, rarius nulla. Stam. lobis cal. alterna iisque breviora, 
in petalorum cavitate juniora abscondita. Duscus nullus. 
Stylus brevissimus triqueter. Stigmata 3. Capsula 3- 
cocca, 3-sperma, cocculis interne planiusculis foramine 
maximo per membranam tenuem tardius solutam clanso 
instructis. Semina erecta—Arbuscule aut Frutices e Nova 
Hollandia ortt, foliis alternis subtus incanis, habitus Ceano- 
thi ad quod Genus valde accedit. D. C. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Pomaperris andromedefolia ; foliis lanceolato-ovalibus gla- 
bris subtus niveo-tomentosis, corymbis terminalibus 
confertis calycibus petalisque reflexis. Cunningh. 
Pomaperris andromedetolia. Cunningh. in Field's N. S. 
Wales, p. 351. 
Descr. A branched shrub; older branches dark gray 
and glabrous, younger ones downy, somewhat silky, often 
with a ferruginous tinge. Leaves in general, about an 
inch and a half long, elliptical, lanceolate, petiolate, acute 
with a mucro, subcoriaceous, glabrous above and dark- 
green, below clothed with an appressed white down, ap- 
proaching to ferruginous in the younger ones. Flowers 
forming rather small, dense, terminal corymbs, having 
brown, membranaceous, caducous bracieas at the base of 
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