( 1823 ) 



POMADERRIS LANIGERA. WOOLLY 

 POMADERRIS. 



Class and Order. 



Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cat turbinates, quinquefidus. Petala 5, fornicata, stamini- 

 bus opposita. Caps, cocculis tribus, membrana operculatis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Pomaderris lanigera ; cymis paniculatis terminalibus, foliis 



ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis coriaceis subtus ferrugineo- 



lanatis. 

 Ceanothus laniger ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, integerrimis, 



subtus lanuginosis ; ramulis, pedunculis, petiolis, caly- 



cibusque hirsutis. Bot. Repos. 569. 



Descr. A shrub two or three feet high, alternate-leaved 

 and branched. The young branches, petioles, peduncles, 

 and calyxes, are covered with a rough woolliness, more or 

 less tinged with a rust-colour. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, quite 

 entire, leathery, covered with a soft pubescence on the upper- 

 side, on the under with white wool more or less tinged with 

 rust-colour, ribbed with parallel veins. Flowers terminal, in a 

 panicled, subumbellated cyme. Bractes small oval, concave. 

 Pedicles thickened towards the upper end, somewhat mealy. 

 Calyx five-cleft : segments acute, revolute. Petals five, 

 concave, crisped at the margin, on long claws. Filaments 

 five, the length of the petals, inserted into the receptacle at 

 the base of the claw of the petal. Anthers yellow, oval, be- 

 coming sagittate. Germen, from the union of the lower 

 part of the calyx, half inferior : style erect, divided upwards 



into 



