Pomaderris.] XIX. ehamneae. 91 



stipulate leaves. Stipules deciduous, rarely spinous. Flowers in axillary or 

 terminal cymes or panicles. 



Genera, about 37. Species, 440. Widely distributed through the temperate and tropical 

 regiofls of both hemispheres. 



1. PoMADEEBis. Ovary inferior. Tomentose leafy shrubs. 



2. DisCAEiA. Ovary superior. Spinous shrub. Leaves few or 0. 



1. POMADERRIS, Labill. 



Calyx-tube adnate with the ovary, the limb divided into 5 lobes, deciduous 

 or reflexed. Petals 5 or 0. Stamens 5; filaments exceeding the petals; 

 anthers free. Disk surrounding the ovary at the margin of the calyx-tube, in- 

 conspicuous. Ovulary more or less inferior. Style 3-cleft. Capsule small, 

 separating into 3 cocci, which open by an oblong lid at the base or by splitting 

 down the inner face. Seed carried on a short thick funiculus. Shrubs, more 

 or less clothed with white hoary or ferruginous stellate tomentum, often mixed 

 with silky hairs. Leaves alternate. Stipules deciduous. Flowers in small 

 cymes, forming terminal or axillary panicles or corymbs. 



A small genus, comprising about 22 species, restricted to Australia, New Zealand, and New 

 Caledonia. 



Ettm. Prom the Greek, signifying a covering and the skin, in reference to the capsule being 

 loosely invested by the calyx. 



Petals on slender claws. 

 Leaves elliptic- oblong, smooth, white beneath . . . . . . . . 1. P. elliptica. 



Petals 0. 



Leaves rugose, linear-oblong, ferruginous . . . . . . . . . . 2. P. Edgerleyi. 



Leaves very rugose, broadly oblong, white beneath . . - . . . . . 3. P. apetala. 



Leaves ^in.-fin. long ; margins revolute . . . . - . . . - . 4. P. phylicaefolia. 



1. P. elliptica, Labill, Nov. Holl. PL i. 61, t. 86. A shrub with slender 

 branches, 2ft.— 10ft. high. Young branches, petioles, and pedicels clothed with 

 fine stellate pubescence. Leaves 2in.— Sin. long, petiolate, glabrous above, white 

 beneath with close tomentum, entire, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, narrowed 

 at the base, somewhat membranous. Flowers in much-branched terminal 

 cymose corymbs or panicles. Calyx white with close tomentum mixed with a 

 few silky hairs. Petals on slender claws ; blade slightly waved. Htjle divided 

 for less than half its length ; stigmas capitate. Capsule small, the free por- 

 tion smaller than the calyx-tube. Carpels small, opening by an oblong lid on 

 the inner face.— Bot. Mag. t. 1510; DC, Prod. ii. 33; Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 

 46 ; Handbk. 43 ; Fl. Tasm. i. 76; Benth., Fl. Austr. i. 417. P Kumeraho, A 

 Cunn., Precurs. n. 248. P. intermedia, Sieb. ex DC. Prod. ii. 33. 



NORTH Island : North Cape to Katikati, Tauranga ; Great Barrier Island. In open 

 country. Kumarahou. Sept. 



Also in south-east Australia and Tasmania. 



2. P. Edgerleyi, Hook. /., Handbk. N.Z. Fl. 43. A low spreading 

 shrub, lft.-2ft. high, or rarely strict and erect, 2ft.-6ft. Young shoots, cymes, 

 and lower surface of leaves covered with loose rusty tomentum and whitish 

 stellate pubescence. Leaves |in.-2in. long, petiolate, elliptic-oblong or linear- 

 oblong, rounded at the base, obtuse, glabrous above, veins prominent below. 

 Cymes axillary or terminal, iin.-3in., rarely forming racemes or narrow 



