76 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Bhamnea. 
Gen. III. POMADEKELIS, Lab. 
Flores ebracteati. Calycis tubus obconicus j limbi lobis patulis, medio carinatis. Petala v. 5, un- 
guiculata, parva, cucullata. Stamina 5, petalis non inclusa, filamentis erectis filiformibus. Ovarium 3- 
loculare, vertice villoso. Stylus plerumque trifidus, lobis 3 divergentibus ; stiguiatibus capitatis. Capsula 
calyce semiadnato inclusa, 3-cocca; coeds ut in Cryptandra, sed facie ventrali infra medium late aperta, 
indehiscentibus ; semina ut in Cryptandra. — Erutices v. arbores parva; folii \u\ floribus 
cymosis. 
I have under Cryptandra pointed out the differences between that genus and the present. There are at least 
twenty species of Pomaderris known, chiefly inhabitants of the extratropical parts of Eastern Australia : two of these 
are natives of New Zealand also ; and a third, from the same coast, is the only other that has been found out of 
Australia. (Name from ncofia, a covering, and 8e PP is, the sHn ; in allusion to the ripe capsules being loosely in- 
vested by the tube of the calyx.) 
1. Pomaderris elliptica (Labill. Nov. Holl. i. 61. t. 86); tota cinereo-velutina, foliis petiolatis 
ellipticis utrinque obtusis v. apice subacutis superne glabris snbtus albidis, cymis densifloris paniculatis, 
calycibus pedunculisque incano-velutinis pilosisque, petalis spathulatis unguiculatis, stigmatibus globosis 
sessilibns.— DC Prodr. ii. 33; FL N. Zeal. i. 46 ; Hook. Joum. Bot. i. 256, ii. 420. [Gunn, 440.) 
Hab. Common, especially in the northern part of the Island,. Labillardiere, etc.— (Fl. Oct. Nov.) 
(v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales. Northern Island of New Zealand. 
A large shrub, 6-8 feet high, much branched and spreading, covered with blossom in November.— Branches 
stout, densely covered with yellowish or reddish tomentum. Leaves 2-3 inches long, oblong or ovate-oblong, 
blunt or sharp, coriaceous, flat, veined and glabrous above, rounded at the base, densely covered with white or 
reddish appressed down ; nerves beneath distinct. Petiole |-1 inch long. Cymes terminal and lateral, copious, 
many-flowered, 2-4 inches across. Branches and branchlets densely tomentose ; pedicels and calyx downy, and also 
covered with silky long hairs. Flowers \ inch across, yellowish or yellowish-white. Stamens longer than the calyx ; 
filaments erect ; anthers linear-oblong.— There is possibly some confusion between this species and the following, 
which is very nearly allied indeed, and possibly not specifically distinct ; this, which grows chiefly in the northern 
parts of the Colony, has silky hairs on the calyx, as well as an appressed down : the following, which is more 
abundant in the southern parts, has no silky hairs, only the tomentum, which is more lax and furfuraeeous. Labil- 
lardiere describes the calyx as pilose, by which he perhaps means tomentose, for he gathered his specimens in the 
southern part of the Island. Ventenat's P. discolor appears to me to be the following, though Planchon (who first 
pointed out their differences to me) refers (in Herb. Hook.) Ventenat's discolor to Labillardiere's elliptica. The 
figure in the 'Botanical Magazine' (t. 1510) quoted by De Candolle under P. elliptica, Lab., is not sufficiently 
exact to satisfy me as to which it represents. Fenzl, Plant. Hxigel. p. 21, refers De CandoUe's discolor and the 
Bot. Mag. elliptica to multiflora of Sieber, and retains both elliptica, Lab., and discolor, Yent., as distinct. 
2. Pomaderris discolor (Yent. Malm. t. 58) ; omnia P. elliptica, sed pedicellis calycibusque fur- 
furaceo-tomentosis non pilosis.— DC. Prodr. ii. 33. P. malifolia, Sieber. 
Hab. Common, especially in the southern parts of the Island, Gunn, etc.— (Fl. Oct.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales. (Cultivated in England.) 
So similar to the P. elliptica (under which I have pointed out its differences) as to require no detailed descrip- 
tion.— Fruit turbinate, about | inch long, half immersed in the persistent calyx-tube. Cocci three, crustaceous, 
mucronate, with a large opening extending in front from above the middle to the base. 
(Eenzl in En. Plant. Hugel. 21) ; ramulis cymis foliisque subtus molliter 
