PLATE 28.—POMADERRIS EDGERLEYI. 
Famity RHAMNACEAL.] [Genus POMADERRIS, Lasitt. 
Pomaderris Edgerleyi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 43; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 100. 
The first-known specimens of this plant were gathered by Mr. Edgerley about 
the year 1850, and were communicated to Sir W. J. Hooker at Kew. As neither 
flowers nor fruit were obtained the genus could not be positively determined ; and 
hence Sir J. D. Hooker, when preparing the “ Flora Nove Zelandiz,” was unable 
to do more than furnish a very brief description of the plant as a possible Poma- 
derris collected by Mr. Edgerley on “ lofty hills in lat. 36°, about twenty miles from 
the coast.” Shortly afterwards it was gathered by Dr. Sinclair on Mount Manaia, 
Whangarei, and by Mr. Joliffe at Coromandel. As these specimens proved that the 
plant had been rightly referred to Pomaderris, Sir J. D. Hooker described it in the 
“* Handbook” under the name of its discoverer. Since then it has been gathered in 
several scattered localities between the North Cape and Mercury Bay, but is nowhere 
an abundant plant. 
In the Manual I have alluded to the fact that there are two forms included in 
the species as it is at present understood—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 more fastigiately 
branched, with longer and narrower leaves, glabrous above, and with paler tomentum 
beneath. Which of these forms is to be considered the type cannot be determined 
without reference to Edgerley’s original specimens preserved at Kew. The first- 
mentioned variety is not uncommon on bare clay hills in the North Cape Peninsula, 
and is also found on the low hills between the Northern Wairoa River and the west 
coast south of Maunganui Bluff. The second variety is the only one known at 
Coromandel and southwards to Hastings and Mercury Bay, and is the one figured in 
this plate. 
The genus Pomaderris, of which four species are found in New Zealand, 1s 
mainly Australian in its distribution, nearly twenty-five species being known from 
that country, ranging from Tasmania and Western Australia to Queensland. 
A single species has been described from New Caledonia. 
Piare 28. Pomaderris Edgerleyi, from specimens gathered at Coromandel Harbour. Fig. 1, 
under-surface of tip of leaf, showing stellate hairs (x 2); 2, stellate hairs (enlarged) ; 3, flower-bud, 
showing the stellate hairs on the outside of the calyx (x 6); 4, flower (x 6); 5 and 6, stamens, front 
and back view (x 8); 7, ovary adnate within the calyx-tube (enlarged); 8 and 9, longitudinal and 
transverse sections of ovary (enlarged) ; 10, ovule (enlarged). 
