46 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. | Rhamnee. 
Stamens opposite the petals. (Name from roya, a covering, and deppus, the skin, because the ripe capsules are loosely 
invested by the calyx.) 
1. Pomaderris eliptica, Lab.; tota cinereo-velutina, foliis petiolatis ellipticis utrinque obtusis v. 
apice subacutis superne glabris subtus albidis, cymis densifloris paniculatis, calycibus pedicellisque incano- 
velutinis pilosisque, petalis spathulatis unguiculatis. Lad. F7. Nov. Holl. v. 1. p. 61. t. 86. DC. Prodr. 
v. 9. p. 39. P. intermedia, Sieber, n. 210. P. Kumeraho, A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern Island, abundant. Hilly situations from Auckland northwards, Cunningham, ete. 
Fl. September. Nat. name, “ Kumarahou,” Colenso. (Cultivated in England.) 
A shrub, 4—6 feet high, branching from the base, having the branches, inflorescence, and leaves underneath 
densely covered with a white or pale-grey pubescence. Leaves 2-3 inches long, on petioles 4 inch long, elliptical, 
generally blunt, yellow-brown when dry. Cymes much branched, very many flowered, yellow and sweet-smelling, 
2-6 inches across. Calyx tomentose, and also covered with long silky hairs. Petals small, with crisped margins, 
yellow.—Mr. Cunningham considered this plant different from the Australian and Tasmanian one, and points out 
supposed characters, in the sharper leaves, smaller and more lax panicle: in all which particulars he must have been 
deceived by imperfect specimens; for though some Tasmanian specimens have broader and blunter leaves, approach- 
ing ovate-oblong in shape, they vary much, and in some New Holland ones the leaves are even narrower and sharper 
than in the New Zealand. The pilose calyx distinguishes this from P. discolor, Vent. I do not quote the ‘ Botanical 
Magazine’ as a synonym for the P. elliptica, the calyx being there described as smooth. The native name, 
** Kumarahou,” is said to be given to this because it flowers at the time for planting the native potato, “ Kumarahou.” 
2. Pomaderris ericifolia, Hook. ; fruticulus erectus, ramosus, scoparius, velutino-pubescens, ramulis 
villosis, foliis parvis confertis patulis lineari-oblongis obtusis breve petiolatis superne scabridis marginibus ad 
costam revolutis, floribus parvis in cymos abbreviatos paucifloros axillares aggregatis, petalis nullis. 77004. 
Journ. Bot. v. 1. p. 257. A. Cunn. Prodr. Rhamnus axillaris, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. 
Has. Northern Island, dry hills, abundant. Fl. September. Nat. name, “ Tauhinu,” Colenso. 
A small, villous, brownish, heath-like shrub, with small uniform leaves, and axillary, white or yellowish flowers. 
Branches white, covered with villous hairs, erect, numerous, fasciculate. Leaves cinereous when dry, 3-4 lines long, 
patent, very numerous, linear-oblong, the margin rolled back to the midrib, blunt, channelled, and rather scabrid 
above with short whitish hairs. Flowers minute, in numerous axillary few-flowered cymes, which are scarcely longer 
than the leaf, apetalous.— This species is not unfrequent in the northern parts of Tasmania, but has not hitherto 
been found in Australia. 
3. Pomaderris? sp.; fruticulus, ramulis foliisque subtus rufo-tomentosis floccosis pilisque stellatis 
onustis, foliis breve petiolatis elliptico-oblongis obtusis superne impresso-venosis scabris. 
Has. Northern Island. “ Lofty hills, lat. 36°, about twenty miles from the sea-coast,” Edgerley. 
Of this plant I have only a fragment: it is nearly allied to P. prunifolia, A. Cunn., of Australia, if not 
identical with it, and may possibly have got into my New Zealand collection by accident; for Mr. Edgerley's ticket 
describes the “ fruit in panicles, capsules six-valved, three exterior and three interior, one- to two-seeded, ripening 
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in January;” whereas his specimen has neither flower nor fruit, and it is further the only plant in Mr. Edgerley's 
collections not found by any other collector. It may be recognized at once by the floccose yellow and red tomentum 
on the branchlets and under surface of the leaves, mixed with stellate hairs. Leaves 3 inch long, oblong, blunt, 
scabrid above, with deep sunk veins, soft below, with very large prominent veins. It appears to form a small 
straggling shrub. 
Gen. II. DISCARIA, Hook. 
Calyx brevi-campanulatus, 4-5-fidus. Petala 4-5 v. 0. Anthere 2-loculares, longitudinaliter 
