Pomaderris. | RHAMNES, 101 
A. Cunn. Precur. n. 578; Raoul, Choix, 50; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. i. 46. P. ameena, Col. on Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1886) 258. 
Nort Isuanp: North Cape to Otaki and Cape Palliser, plentiful in open 
country, ascending to over 200 ft. Tauhine. November—December. 
Also found in Victoria and Tasmania. 
2. DISCARIA, Hook. 
Much-branched rigid shrubs or small trees, with opposite often 
spinous branchlets. Leaves opposite or fascicled, sometimes want- 
ing. Flowers axillary. Calyx membranous, free or adnate to the 
ovary at the base; limb campanulate, 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-6, 
hooded, often wanting. Stamens 4-5; filaments short. Disc ad- 
nate to the base of the calyx-tube, annular. Ovary more or less 
sunk in the disc, 3-lobed, 3-celled; style slender; stigma 3-lobed. 
Drupe (or capsule) dry, coriaceous, 3-lobed, endocarp separating 
into 3 2-valved crustaceous cocci. Seeds with a coriaceous testa. 
Species about 16, mostly natives of extratropical and alpine South America, 
with 1 species in Australia and another in New Zealand. 
1. D. Toumatou, Raoul, Choix de Plantes, 29, t. 29.—A much- 
branched thorny bush or small tree 2-15 ft. high or even more, 
glabrous or slightly puberulous. Branches divaricating, flexuous ; 
young ones green, terete; branchlets reduced to opposite distichous 
or decussate rigid spines 14-2 in. long. Leaves often wanting, fas- 
cicled below the axils of the spines or opposite on short shoots, 
4-3in. long, linear-obovate or oblong-obovate, obtuse. Flowers 
small, 4in. diam., greenish-white, fascicled with the leaves below 
the axils of the spines; pedicels short, puberulous. Calyx-lobes 
4-5, reflexed. Petals wanting. Capsule tin. diam., globose, deeply 
3-lobed.— Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 44; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 136; 
Students’ Fl. 93. D. australis, Hook., var. apetala, Hook. f. Fil. 
Nov. Zel.i. 47. Notophcena Toumatou, Miers in Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. Ser. i. v. (1860) 271. 
NortH Aanp SoutH Istanps: Waikato River to the Bluff, common. 
Ascends to 3500 ft. Tumatukuru. November-—January. 
Can only be distinguished from the Australian and Tasmanian D. australis 
by the absence of petals. It attains a large size in the cool mountain-valleys of 
the South Island, but near the coast is usually low and scrubby. 
Orper XIX. SAPINDACEA.. 
Trees, shrubs, or woody climbers, rarely herbs. Leaves alter- 
nate or more rarely opposite, often compound, exstipulate, seldom 
stipulate. Flowers regular or irregular, generally unisexual or 
polygamous ; inflorescence very various. Calyx 3-d-lobed or of as 
many free sepals, divisions often unequal in size, imbricate or val- 
vate. Petals 3-5 or wanting, free, equal or unequal, often bearded 
or glandular at the base within, imbricate. Disc very various, 
