Pomaderris. | RHAMNEAS. 99 
usually forming terminal or axillary corymbs or panicles. Calyx- 
tube adnate to the ovary, limb 5-toothed to the base, deciduous or 
reflexed. Petals 5 or wanting. Stamens 5; filaments longer than 
the petals; anthers oblong. Disc inconspicuous, surrounding the 
top of the ovary at the base of the calyx-lobes. Ovary more or less 
inferior; style 3-fid. Capsule small, upper part protruding above 
the calyx-tube, 3-valved ; endocarp separating into 3 cocci, which 
either split down the inner face or open by an oblong lid. Seed on 
a thickened funicle. 
A genus of about 22 species, restricted to Australia, New Caledonia, and 
New Zealand. Three of the New Zealand species are also found in Australia ; 
he fourth is endemic. 
* Flowers with petals. 
Leaves 2-3 in., elliptic-oblong, obtuse, entire .. -. IL. P. elliptica. 
** Flowers without petals. 
Leaves 2-4in., oblong-ovate, crenulate; tomentum white 
orgrey .. oc xe be a6 .. 2. P. apetala. 
Leaves #-2in., oblong or oblong-lanceolate ; tomentum 
often ferruginous .. .. 38. P. Hdgerleyi. 
Leaves small, linear or x oblong, bi in. ymargins r revolute to 
the midrib é : .. 4 P. phylicefolia. 
1. P. elliptica, Zab. Nov. Holl. Pl. i. 61, t. 86.—A sparingly 
branched shrub 4-8ft. high; young branches, petioles, leaves 
beneath, and inflorescence densely clothed with fine white or buff 
stellate tomentum. Leaves shortly petiolate, 2-3 in. long, elliptic- 
oblong or ovyate-oblong, obtuse or acute, quite entire, glabrous 
above, veins and midrib prominent beneath. Cymes numerous, 
terminal, forming large much-branched corymbose panicles. 
Flowers bright-yellow, 1-4+in. diam. Calyx covered with stellate 
tomentum mixed with long silky hairs. Petals with a broad 
blade with crisped margins and a long slender claw. Capsule 
small, the free portion shorter than the calyx-tube. Cocci open- 
ing by an oblong lid on the inner face.—Bot. Mag. t. 1510; Hook. 
jf. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 46; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 48; Benth. Fl. Austral. i. 
417; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 91. P. Kumeraho, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 
077; Raoul, Choix, 50. 
NortH Isutanp: North Cape to Tauranga Harbour, on open clay hills. 
Kumarahou. September. Also in south-east Australia and Tasmania. 
2. P. apetala, Lab. Nov. Holl. Pl. i. 52, t. 87.—A shrub or 
small tree 6—-15it. high, rarely more ; branchlets, undersurface of 
leaves, and inflorescence covered with dense white or greyish 
stellate tomentum. Leaves petiolate, 2-4in. long, oblong-ovate 
or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, irregularly crenulate, 
glabrous and wrinkled above, veins prominent below. Flowers 
small, numerous, in terminal and axillary panicles 3-7 in. long. 
Calyx-tube short, clothed with stellate hairs. Petals wanting. 
