248 Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand, 



staminibus longior. Fructus coriaceus, subglobosus, quasi zona cinctus ex 

 margine calycis adnato, 5-locularis. Semina plura, angulata rugulosa. 



2. Pennantia, Forsf.j Gen. 67. 



Calycis sepala 5, lanceolata, acuta, SBstivatione imbricata, in anthesi pa- 

 tentissima. Stamina 5, hypogyna, sepalis alterna ; filamentis liberis, 

 antberis introrsus bilocularibus, dorso affixis. Ovarium sessile, ovato- 

 oblongum, 3 loculare, loculis biovulatis, ovulis ex apice loculi pendulis. 

 Stigma sessile, discoideum, obsolete 3-lobum. Fructus drupaceus, mo- 

 nospermus, semine in verso. Endl. 



576. P. corymhosa. Forst. Prodr. n. 379. Willd. Sp. PI. iv. p. 1122. 

 Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 80. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg, v. 5. p. 569. J. 

 Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 368. Icon. Ferd. Bauer, illustr. PL Norf. Ins. t. 

 165. 



New Zealand (Middle Island).— 1773, G. Forster. 



Arbor 40pedalis, et infra cortice albo. Ramitevetes, albo-punctati, fistu- 

 losi. Folia alterna, petiolata, elliptico-oblonga v. obovata, integerrima (vel 

 extra medium serrata) emarginata, venosa, glabra. Flores bermaphroditi, 

 pentandri, paucissimis abortu masculis intermixtis, corymbosi. Corymhi 

 cymosi, 4-pollicares, in ramis ramulisque terminales. Ovarium 3 loculare, 

 loculis biovulatis, ovulis pendulis superpositis. Drupa atro-purpurea stigmata 

 coronata, semine unico inverso foeta. 



3. POMADERRIS, LahUl. 

 * Flores petaliferi. 



577. P. Kumeraho, cymis densiflorisumbellato-paniculatis, foliis ellipticis 

 coriaceis valde obtusis super glabris subrugulosis margine tenuiter crenulatis 

 integrisve sublus alte costatis ramulisque albo-tomentosis. 



Kumeraho nom. vernaculum. R. Cunningham. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Banks of the Keri-Keri river, 8rc., 

 Bay of Islands. — 1826, A. Cunningham. — 1833, R. Cunningham. 



Obs. Valde affinis P. ellipticie quse differt foliis prsesertim acutioribus, pa- 

 nicula multo minore et laxiore, floribusve perquam minus confertis. 



The flowering of this shrub, which takes place in the month of 

 September, the spring of New Zealand, is the signal for the natives 

 to plant their Koomeras or sweet potatoes ; hence doubtless origin- 

 ates the name by which they call this plant in the present day. 



** Flores apetali. 



578. P. ericifolia, foliis linearibus pubescenti-scabris marginibus condu- 

 plicato-revolutis subtus cinereo-hirsutissimis, cymis pavvifloris axillaribus 

 folio vix longioribus, stipulis subulatis ramisque oblongis. Hooker, Journ. 

 Bot. i. p. 257. 



Tuturnai incolarum. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). On hills among fern, Bay of Islands. 

 —1826, A. Cunningham. 



