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418 XXXVI. RHAMNE^. [Pomaclerris. 



turn, oftea intermixed witli longer simple lialrs, especially on the turbinate 

 tube. Petals usually broadly cordate or nearly orbicular, concave, on slender 

 claws, but often inucli narrower, sometimes deeply toothed and occasionally 

 abortive. Style-branches short, with capitate stigmas. Capsule about l^ lines 

 diameter, slightly hairy, the free part rather shorter than the adnate portion, 

 the cocci opening in around valve or operculum below the middle. — ^Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1510 ; DC. Prod, ii. 33 ; Hook. f. PL Tasra. i. 76 ; P. MuelL Pragm.iii. 69. 



N. S, Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, K Broim and others; north- 

 ward to New England, C. Stuart, and southward to Twofold Bay^ F. Mueller. 



Victoria. Monlcey Creek, Gipps' Land, ¥, Mueller. 



Tasmania. Common, especially In the uoitheru portion of the island, J. D. Hooker, 



Also in the northern island. New Zealand. 



Two species are usually distinguished, P. elliptlca, with broader more obtuse leaves and 

 withont any silky hairs mixed with the stellate {omentum of the calyx, and F. discolor, VL. 

 Prod. ii. 33, Sweet, Fl. Aust. t. 41, with the calyx, at least the tuhe, more or less silky- 

 hairy and the leaves often less obtuse. Labillardiere's specimens belong to the former, but 

 his description agrees better with the latter ; and in many instances the two forms pass one 

 into the other. Sieber's specinicus, u. 208 (P, malifoHa, Sieb. ; T muWflora, Fenzl, m 

 Hueg. Enum. 21), are very broad-leaved, with tlie tomentose calyx of the first form ; n. ^13 

 (/". discolor) belongs to the second; n. 210 (P. intermedia, Sieb.; DC, Prod. ii. 33) ha 

 the leaves narrower than usual and the indumentum of the calyx variable. Ceanotlms dis- 

 color. Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 58, has the more acute leaves of the second form with the close 

 tomentura of the first. P. actiwhiafa, Liuk. Enum. Ilort. BeroL 235, is probably esta- 

 blished on the same garden-plant as Veutenat's. 



¥. Mueller considers P. lanigera, ferrftglneay aud philhjreoides as varieties only of this 

 species, and it is certainly sometimes ditficult to draw precise limits between them in the 

 dried state. If they are united, the species should surely include also P. grandis, 



^ 5. P. phillyreoides, Bkh. in BO, Prod. ii. 33. A slirub, said to be of 

 mucli smaller stature than P. eUiptica. Down of the young branches some- 

 times very close and white or rusty, sometimes loose and more rusty, almost 

 as in P.ferriiginea, Leaves much smaller than in any of the preceding spe- 

 cieSj seldom attaining 1^ in. and usnally much shorter, oblong or oval, obtuse 

 or acute, entire, of a firm consistence, glabrous or m.in\itely hoary above, soft 

 underneath with a white or nisty down. Flowers rather larger than in P- 

 eUiptica, but variable in size, the cymes compact, in small terminal panicles. 

 Calyx softly silky -hair}-, the turbinate tube shorter than the lobes. Petals 

 nearly of P. elliptica, but usually narrower. Styles more deeply cleft, the 

 branches club-shaped at the top, with somewhat deeurrent stigmas. Capsule 

 of P. dliptica.^P. andromedafoUa, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 351 ; 

 Bot. Mag, t. 3219; P. pMlhjre^folia, Fenzl, in Hueg. Enum. 22 (from the 

 character given). 



N. S. Walefii. Port Jsckson, Sijber, n,2l5; rock§ in the Bine Mountains and stony 

 barren hilly districts, J. Cunningham and others! I have failed in identifying in R. Bwvu s 

 herbanum the plant described by Fcnzl, but have little doubt of its belonging to this spe- 

 cies, which F, Mueller unites T\'ith P. eUipilca, 



Var. miidula. Leaves more coriaceous, nsaally acnte ; tomeiitiun closer, very white on 

 the under side of the leaves.— New England, C. Stuart; Mount Lindsay, W, JIHL 



• 6. P. vacciniifolia^ Peissek mid MuclL in Linnaa,\.\bi. 266. A shrub, 

 with slender divaricate branches. Leaves ovate or nearly orbicular, very ob- 

 tuse, seldom above \ in. long, glabrous above, white nnderiicath. Cymes 

 small, in ovoid terminal panicles of about 1 in. Ends nearly globular, about 





