Pnmaderns.] XXXVIII. RHAMNE^. 273 



P. Innitjn-a, mr. 2, DC. Prod. ii. 33 ; P. viridirufa, Sieb. PI. Exs.; Ceanothm 

 Wendlandianus, Eoem. and Schult. Syst. v. 299 (from the character given) ; 

 Pomaderrat Wmdlandiana, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 39.— Benth. 



Var. canescms, Benth. Mora Austr. i. 417 (in part). Leaves 3 to 4in. long, white, and lees 

 ferruginous underneath. Intermediate almost between P. fen-uginea and P. elliptica. Percy 

 Island, A Cunningham (Benth, l.o ) Of this I have no authentic specimens, but from some 

 received from Mr. P. C. Simmonda it would seem that the variety is growing on Taylor's 

 Range. This plant forms a shrub 5 or 6ft. high. Branohlets softly velvety, with light or dark 

 brownish longer hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 2J to 4Jin. long, 1 to IJin. broad, rather obtuse, 

 apioulate, on petioles of about Jin., margins entire, glabrous above, the under side densely clothed 

 with a nearly white tomentum and longish scattered brownish hairs. Panicles corymbose, 

 terminal and in the upper axils. Stipules hairy outside, glabrous and purplish-brown inside, 

 ovate-lanceolate, 3 lines long, frequently toothed. Bracts soarious, almost orbicular, margins 

 cihate. Flowers minute, with pedicels not exceeding 2 lines. Calyx with long hairs outside, 

 glabrous, and satin-white inside. Petals very fugaceous, shorter than the calyx-lobes, white, 

 spathulate, toothed on the margins, serrulate at the end ; filaments glabrous, anthers shghtly 

 exserted, style-branches with broad, sometimes almost didymous stigmas. 



3. P. elliptica (elliptic), Labill. PL Nov. Holl. i. 61, t. 86 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 i. 417. A tall shrub or small tree, the young branches rusty with a very close 

 stellate down, intermixed occasionally with a few longer hairs. Leaves petiolate, 

 ovate, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or rarely almost acute, usually 2 to 3in. 

 long and f to IJin. broad, entire or the margins slightly waved, glabrous above 

 and smooth or scarcely scabrous, white underneath with a very close tomentum, 

 the prominent midrib and principal parallel 'veins often rust-coloured. Cymes 

 numerous, in diehotomous panicles, usually more or less corymbose. Stipules 

 lanceolate, brown and scarious as well as the broad concave bracts, but all falling 

 off in a very early stage so as to be rarely seen at the time of flowering. Calyx 

 about IJ line long, white with a minute stellate tomentum, often intermixed with 

 longer simple hairs, especially on the turbinate tube. Petals usually broadly 

 cordate or nearly orbicular, concave, on slender claws, but often much narrower, 

 sometimes deeply toothed and occasionally abortive. Style-branches short, with 

 capitate stigmas. Capsule about If line diameter, slightly hairy, the free part 

 rather shorter than the adnate portion, the cocci opening in a round valve or 

 operculum below the middle.— Bot. Mag. t. 1510; DC. Prod. ii. 33 ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Tasm. i. 76 ; F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 69. 



Hab.: Near the tops of many hills in southern aiid tropical Queensland. 



Two species are usually distinguished, P.' elliptica, with broader more obtuse leaves and 

 without any silky hairs mixed with the stellate tomentum of the calyx, and P. discolor, DC. Prod. 

 ii. 33, Sweet, PI. Austr. t. 41, with the calyx, at least the tube, more or less silky-hairy and the 

 leaves often less obtuse. Labillardifere's specimens belong to the former, but his description 

 agrees better with the latter ; and in many instances the two forms pass one into the other. 

 Sieber's specimens, n. 208 (P. malifolia, Sieb.; P. multiflora, Fenzl, in Hueg. Enum. 21), are 

 very broad-leaved, with the tomentose calyx of the first form ; n. 213 (P. discolm-) belongs to 

 the second ; n. 210 (P. intermedia, Sieb ; DC. Prod. ii. 38) has the leaves narrower than usual 

 and the indumentum of the calyx variable. Geanothus discolor, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 58, has the 

 more acute leaves of the second form with the close tomentum of the first. P. acuminata. Link. 

 Enum. Hort. Berol. 235, is probably established on the same garden-plant as Ventenat's. — Benth. 



4. P. phillyreoides (Phyllyrea-like), Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 33 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. i. 418. A shrub, said to be of much smaller stature than P. elliptica. 

 Down of the young branches sometimes very close and white or rusty, sometimes 

 loose and more rusty, almost as in P. ferruginea. Leaves much smaller than in 

 any of the preceding species, seldom attaining Ifin., and usually much shorter, 

 oblong or oval, obtuse or acute, entire, of a firm consistence, glabrous or minutely 

 hoary above, soft underneath with a white or rusty down. Flowers rather larger 

 than in P. elliptica, but variable in size, the cymes compact, in small terminal 

 panicles. Calyx softly silky-hairy, the turbinate tube shorter than the lobes. 



