92 XIX. RHAMNEAE. [Pomaderris. 



panicles. Pedicels often very short or 0. Calyx deeply 5-lobedj turbinate 

 below; lobes large^ acute, densely tomentose. Petals apparently 0. Ovary 

 wholly inferior, sunk in the calyx-tube. Cocci opening by a lid. — Pomaderris, 

 n. s., Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 46. 



NORTH Island : Auckland : North Cape and Spirits Bay to Kaipara and Waipu, &o. ; between 

 Orewa and the Wade ; Cape Colville to Tapu Creek, Thames; Mercury Bay, &o. Sea level to l,2C0ft. 

 Flowers not seen. Endemic. 



3. P. apetala, LabUl., PI. Nov. Holl. i. 62, t. 87. A shrub or small 



tree, 6ft.— 20ft. high; trunk 5in.— 6in. in diameter. Branchlets, leaves below, 



and inflorescence densely clothed with short white stellate pubescence and 



floccose tomentum. Leaves petioled, oblong-lanceolate or broadly oblong, 2in.— 



4in. long, obtuse or subacute, very rugose above ; margins crenulate or minutely 



erose, glabrous above ; veins prominent beneath. Flowers very numerous, in 



terminal or axillary cymes forming loose panicles 4in.— 7in. long. Calyx-tube 



short. Petals 0. Anthers usually with a minute gland at the apex. Styles 



rather short, divided to the middle. Ovary half-superior ; upper portion of 



capsule broad, more or less clothed with minute patches of stellate pubescence ; 



cocci broad, opening by a lid on the inner face. — Hook, f., Fl. Tasm. i. 77 ; F. 



Muell., 2nd Cens. Austr. PI. 103 ; Benth., Fl. Austr. i. 419 ; T. Kirk, Forest 



Fl. N.Z. t. 8. P. aspera, Sieb. in DC, Prod. ii. 33. P Tainui, Hector in 



Trans. N.Z.I, xi. (1870) 428. 



NORTH Island : Auckland : formerly abundant at Kawhia, but has been destroyed by goats. 

 Between Kawhia and Mokau, Gilbert. Taranaki : between the Mokau and Mohakatina Rivers, 

 Hector, T. K. Chatham Islands, Cox ! Tainui. Oct., Nov. 



Var. mollis (sp.), Colenso in Trans. N.Z.I, xxv. (1892) 327. A form with leaves less rugose, 

 obtuse or acute, whiter beneath. Mowers smaller, on more slender pedicels. NORTH Island : 

 Puketapu, Hawke's Bay, Colenso, Petrie ! SOUTH Island : Geraldine, Canterbury, I/. Mathias ! 

 Planted. Naturalised in the southern locality. A common Australian form. 



The northern and Chatham Island natives assert that the plant was introduced in the Tainui 

 canoe. Also in Australia. 



4. P. phylicaefolia, Lodd., Bot. Cab. i. 120a. a small heath-like shrub, 



with spreading or erect fastigiate villous branches, 1ft.— 3ft. high. Leaves on 



young plants ^in.-Jin. long, petiolate, membranous, ovate, flat, hairy on both 



surfaces ; on mature plants small, Jin.-Jin. long, narrow-oblong, obtuse, with 



scabrid hairs on both surfaces, very shortly petioled or sessile, coriaceous, 



margins broadly revolute, deeply grooved above. Flowers in small axillary 



cymes, slightly exceeding the leaves. Calyx very small, globose, villous. Petals 



0. Ovary half-superior; style very short. Capsule small, globose, silky. 



Cocci opening by the entire inner face falling away. — DC, Prod. ii. 34; Hook. 



f., Handbk. 43 ; Benth., Fl. Austr. i. 422 ; F. Muell., 2nd Cens. Austr. PI. 



103. P ericifolia, Hook., Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 257; A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 



578; Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 46; Fl. Tasm. i. 78. P. polifolia, Reissek in Lin- 



naea xx. 269. P. amaena, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xviii. (1885) 258. Stiphrum 



ledifolium, Banks and Sol. MSS. 



NORTH Island : North Cape to Otaki and Cape Palliser. Abundant in open country Sea- 

 level to 2,000ft. Tauhinu. Nov., Dec. 

 Also in Victoria and Tasmania. 



