100 RHAMNEZ. [Pomaderris. 
Anthers tipped by a minute gland. Style 3-fid to the middle. 
Capsule obtuse, sparsely covered with stellate hairs. Cocci open- 
ing by a valve on the inner face.—Benth. Fl. Austral. 1. 419; Kirk, 
Forest Fl. t.8; Students’ Fl.92. P. Tainui, Hector in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xi. (1879) 429. P. mollis, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv. (1893) 
327. 
Norru Isnanp: Formerly abundant at Kawhia, but now extinct; between 
Kawhia and Mokau, Gilbert; between the Mokau and Mohakatina Rivers, 
Hector! Kirk ! CHATHAM JSLANDS: #. A. D. Con. Also naturalised in 
Hawke’s Bay, and at Geraldine, Canterbury. Tainw. October—Novem- 
ber. 
A common Australian plant. The Maoris assert that it sprang from the 
rollers or skids that were brought in the canoe ‘‘Tainui’’ when they first 
colonised New Zealand. 
3. P. Edgerleyi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 48.—An erect 
or spreading shrub, variable in habit and size, 2-8 ft. high; 
branchlets, undersurface of leaves, petioles, and inflorescence 
densely clothed with soft loose whitish or ferruginous stellate 
tomentum. Leaves shortly petioled, 3-2in. long, oblong linear- 
oblong or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse at both ends, rarely acute, 
glabrous or scabrid above, with impressed veins; midrib and 
principal veins prominent beneath. Cymes axillary and terminal, 
usually broad and corymbose, more rarely lax and racemose. 
Flowers small, yellowish. Calyx-lobes large, ovate, acute, reflexed, 
midrib prominent. Petals wanting. Ovary entirely sunk in the 
calyx-tube ; style 3-cleft almost to the base.—Kirk, Students’ Fi. 
91. Pomaderris (?) sp. Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 46. 
Norrn Istanp: North Cape to Mercury Bay, but often local. Sea-level 
to 1500 ft. October-November. Endemic. 
There are two forms of this species—one a small shrub with straggling or 
procumbent branches, and small oblong leaves scabrid above and clothed with 
bright ferruginous tomentum beneath ; the other taller and fastigiately branched, 
with longer and narrower leaves, glabrous above and with paler tomentum 
beneath. 
4. P. phyliceefolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 120.—A small heath-like 
shrub 1-4 ft. high; branches densely villous, spreading or erect, 
fastigiate. Leaves small, of very young plants +-3in. long, oblong 
or ovate, obtuse, flat, hairy on both surfaces; of older plants 4-4in. 
long, nearly sessile, spreading, linear or linear-oblong, grooved 
down the middle and scabrid with short white hairs above, margins 
revolute to the midrib, concealing nearly the whole of the villous 
undersurface. Flowers minute, in small axillary cymes slightly 
longer than the leaves, very abundantly produced. Calyx small, 
densely pubescent, lobes spreading. Petals wanting. Capsule ovoid, 
hirsute ; cocci opening along the whole length of the inner face.—- 
Benth. Fl. Austral. i. 422; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 43; Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 92. P. ericifolia, Hook. in Journ. Bot. i. (1834) 257 ; 
