272 XXXVIII. RHAMNEiE. [Pomade^-iis. 



annular, surrounding the ovary at the base of the calyx-lobes, often scarcely 

 conspicuous, and never very prominent. Ovary half-inferior or rarely almost 

 entirely inferior. Style 3-cleft, or rarely almost pntire. Capsule protruding 

 above the border of the calyx-tube, septieidally 3-valved, the endocarp separating 

 into 3 erustaceous or membranous cocci, opening by a broad operculum at the 

 base of the inner face, or by the separation of the whole inner face, or rarely by a 

 longitudinal slit. Seed inserted on a short, thickened turbinate or cup-shaped 

 funiculus. — Shrubs, with the young branches and under side of the leaves white, 

 hoary or rusty with a close stellate tomentum, often mixed with or concealed by 

 longer, simple, soft, often silky hairs. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Stipules 

 brown and scarious, usually very deciduous. Flowers pedicellate, in small, umbel- 

 like cymes, usually forming terminal panicles or corymbs, or rarely solitary in the 

 axils of the leaves. Bracts brown and scarious, but so deciduous as to be seldom 

 visible at the time of flowering. 



The genus is confined to Australia and New Zealand ; the Australian species are all endemic 

 and from the eastern and southern districts, with the exception of two which are also found in 

 New Zealand. — Benth. 



Flowers with petals. 



Calyx-tube turbinate, at least half as long as the lobes. Cocci opening 

 by an operculum below the middle. ' 



Leaves mostly ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 3in. long. .• Panicles many- 

 flowered. 

 Leaves hoary or tomentose above, softly tomentose underneath. 



Calyx about 2 lines long, very villous .... . . . . 1. P. lanigera. 



Leaves glabrous or sparingly scabrous-pubescent above, densely 

 ferruginous, tomentose underneath. Calyx 1 to IJ lines long, 

 softly hairy . . 2. P. ferruginea. 



Leaves ovate and obtuse or oblong-elliptical, often above 2in. long, 

 glabrous above, white underneath. Panicles many-flowered. Calyx 

 1 to 1| line, closely tomentose or hairy 3. P. elUptica. 



Leaves firm, rarely above lin. long. Panicles small and compact. 



Calyx of P. elliptica i. P. phillyreoides. 



Flowers without petals. Cymes rather loose, numerous in much-branched 

 panicles. Calyx softly hairy, with a, turbinate tube. Leaves mostly 

 obtuse, scabrous above, often crenulate and rugose . . .... 5. P. jn-umfolia 



1. P. lanigera (woolly), Sims. Bot. Mag. t. 1823; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 416. 

 An erect branching shrub, nearly allied to P. elliptica, with which it is united by 

 F. V. Mueller, differing chiefly in the leaves softly though minutely tomentose on 

 the upper side, and the larger more villous flowers. Leaves oblong or ovate- 

 lanceolate, the under side as well as the young branches clothed with a soft 

 velvety tomentum often rust-coloured. Panicles often larger and less corymbose 

 than in P. elliptica. Calyx about 2 lines long, very densely and softly hairy, the 

 turbinate tube about half as long as the lobes. Petals ovate, concave, on slender 

 claws. Fruit as in P. elliptica, but larger and more hairy. — DC. Prod. ii. 33, 

 excluding the var. 2 ; Ceanothus laniger, Andr. Bot. Rep. i. 569 ; P. obscura, Sieb. 

 PI. Exs. 



Hab.: Stunihoipe, L. A. Bernay.<!,jiiiir, • 



2. P. ferruginea (ferruginous), Sieb.; Fenzl, in Hueg. Enum. 21 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. i. in. 'Very nea.li: P. elliptica, ekudi united with it by F. v. Mueller, 

 having the leaves glabrous above, and the small flowers of that species, but the 

 leaves are usually rather longer for their breadth and more acute, and the down 

 of the under side is much more dense, velvety and usually ferruginous. The 

 flowers are more numerous, the calyx more softly and densely hairy, and the 

 petals usually narrower. The fruits are the same.— Hook, f.Fl. Tasm, i. 76; 



