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420 XXXVI. miAMNE^. [Pomaderris. 



wilh a few stellate hairs; cocci opening with a short valve, as in P. elUptica, 

 Hook. f. ri. Tasm. i. 77; 1\ MuelL Frngm. iii. 73 ; P. aspera, Sieb. in 

 DC. Prod, ii, 33 ; A. DC. VI. Rar. Jard. Gen. 5^ Not. IS, t. 4. 



N. S. "Wales. Nepean river, R. Broimt ; Port Jackson, Sieber, n. 21J, and others; 

 abuudaiit in open forest-lands south of the colony, J. Cun7iingham ; Twofold Bay, r> 

 Mueller, 



Victoria. King's Island and Port Phillip, B. Brown ; extcading over the southern and 



eastern districts of the colony, F. Mueller. 



Tasmania, Abundant throuirhout the island, J". Z). Hoolcer, 



S. Australia. Kangaroo Island, W ater house ; gpeciraeus in leaf only, and therefore 

 doubtful. 



The species varies much in the quantity of stellate tomeutura, and also in the size of the 

 flowers, but does not appear to be separable into distinct varieties. 



10. P. cinerea, Benll. A tall shnib, with numerous slender brandies, 

 hoary with a minute tomen turn. Stipules filiibrni. Leaves ovate or ellip- 

 tical, obtuse or scarcely acute, 1 to nearly 2 in. long, quite entire, hoary above 

 and white underneath with a close minute tomentum, the primary veins pro- 

 minent underneath, but not impressed above. Cymes loose, many-flowered, 

 in temoinal leafy panicles. Bracts narrow, falling off very early, as in the 

 rest of the genus. Buds small, globidar, Avhite-tomentose, not yet quite open 

 in the specimens seen. Calyx-tube exceedingly short. Petals none. 



N. S. Wales. Mount Inilay, Twofold Bay, F, Mueller, 



11. P. prunifolia. A, Cunn.; Fenzl, in Htteg. Enum. 22. Stellate 

 tomentum of the branches and under side of the leaves dense and white, or 

 sometimes ferruginous. Leaves ovate or oblong, obtuse or mucronate, seldom 

 above \\ in. long, wrinkled, and often scabrous above, with short, simple or 

 stellate hairs. Flowci's small and numerous, in many-flowered compact cymes, 

 arranged in thyrsoid terminal panicles as in P. ligiistrina. Calyx obovoid, 

 about 1 line long, the tube turbinate, the stellate tomentum usually concealed 

 by long silky hairs. Petals none. Styles cleft nearly to the base. Capsule 

 about 1 line diameter, hirsute, obtuse, only slightly protruding from the ad- 

 nate tube of the calyx.— P. MuelL Fragm. iii. 75. 



N. S, Wales, Near Liverpool, A, Cunningkam; Paramatta, WooUs, In some her- 

 baria Cunningham's labels of this and P. betulina are interchanged. ,, 



Victoria. Genoa river and coast near Snowy River, F, Mueller, (Leaves almost smootn 

 above. Capsule rather more prominent.) 



/ 12. P. ligustrina, Sieh, in DC, Prod, ii. 34. Branches slender, the 

 tomentum soft and rust-colom-ed. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate,! 

 to 2 in. long, glabrous above, quite entire, rusty-tomentose or almost woolly 

 underneath. Flowers small and numerous, in rather loose thyrsoid terniiTiat 

 panicles. Calyx obovoid, scarcely above 1 line long, softly silky-hairy- Petals 

 none. Styles usually divided to the middle, with club-shaped stigmas. Cap- 

 sule about 1 line diameter, hirsute, rather obtuse, the exserted part about as 

 lon^ as tlic adnate tube; operculum of the cocci about half their length 

 F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 7L 



W. S. -Wales. Port Jackson. Sijh. n. 212, and Fl. Mixt. n, 544, and others; Blue 

 Mountains, A, CvnainghaM ; northward to Hastings river, Beckler ; southward to Iwoto 

 Bay, F. Mueller. 



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