248 Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand. 



staminibus longior. Fructus coriaceus, subglobosus, quasi zona cinctus ex 

 margine calycis adnato, 5-locularis. Semina plura, angulata rugulosa. 



2. Pennantia, Forst., Gen. 67. 

 Calycis sepala 5, lanceolata, acuta, sestivatione imbricata, in anthesi pa- 

 ten tissima. Stamina 5, hypogyna, sepalis alterna ; filamentis liberis, 

 antheris introrsus bilocularibus, dorso affixis. Ovarium sessile, ovato- 

 oblongum, 3 loculare, loculis biovulatis, ovulis ex apice loculi pendulis. 

 Stigma sessile, discoideum, obsolete 3-lobum. Fructus drupaceus, mo- 

 nospermus, semine inverso. Endl. 



576. P. corymhosa. Forst. Prodr. n. 379. Willd. Sp. PI. iv. p. 1122. 

 Endl, Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 80. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg, v. 5. p. 569. J. 

 Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 368. Icon. Ferd. Bauer, illustr. PL Norf. Ins. t. 

 165. • 



New Zealand (Middle Island).— 1773, G. Forster. 



Arbor 40-pedalis, et infra cortice albo. Rami teretes, albo-punctati, fistu- 

 losi. Folia alterna, petiolata, elliptico-oblonga v. obovata, integerrima (vel 

 extra medium serrata) emarginata, venosa, glabra. Flores hermaphroditi, 

 pentandri, paucissimis abortu masculis intermixtis, corymbosi. Corymbi 

 cymosi, 4-pollicares, in ramis ramulisque terminales. Ovarium 3 loculare, 

 loculis biovulatis, ovulis pendulis superpositis. Drupa atro-purpurea stigmate 

 coronata, semine unico inverso foeta. 



3. PoMADERRis, Labill. 

 * Flores petaliferi. 



577. P. Kumeraho, cymis densiflorisumbellato-paniculatis, foliis ellipticis 

 coriaceis valde obtusis super glabris subrugulosis margine tenuiter crenulatis 

 integrisve subtus alte costatis ramulisque albo-tomentosis. 



Kumeraho nom. vernaculum. R. Cunningham. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Banks of the Keri-Keri river, &c., 

 Bay of Islands. — 1826, A. Cunningham. — 1833, R. Cu?iningham. 



Obs. Valde affinis P. ellipticce qusd difFert foliis praesertim acutioribus, pa- 

 nicula multo minore et laxiore, floribusve perquam minus confertis. 



The flowering of this shrub, which takes place in the month . of 

 September, the spring of New Zealand, is the signal for the natives 

 to plant their Koomeras or sweet potatoes ; hence doubtless origin- 

 ates the name by which they call this plant in the present day. 



*• Flores apetali. 



578. P. ericifolia, foliis linearibus pubescenti-scabris marginibus condu- 

 plicato-revolutis subtus cinereo-hirsutissimis, cymis parvifloris axillaribus 

 folio vix longioiibus, stipulis subulatis ramisque oblongis. Hooker, Journ. 

 Bot. i. p. 257. 



Tuturnai incolarum. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). On hills among fern, Bay of Islands. 

 — 1826, A. Cunningham. 



