RHAMNACEJE. 89 



or slightly prominent at vertex, 2-3-vaIvate at apex ; cocci finally 

 dehiscent or indehisoent. Seeds ovoid or compressed, attached 

 to a dilated or cupular-arillate funicle; embryo albuminous. — 

 Shrubs oftener stellate-canescent or ferruginous ; leaves alternate 

 membranous, revolute at margin ; flowers i in very compound ramose 

 cymiferous racemes.^ {South west. Australia.^) 



29. Pomaderris Labill.* — Flowers nearly of Trymalium ; petals 

 5, concave, flat (or 0). Stamens 5 ; fllaments inflexed or plicate at 

 apex ; anthers oblong, not enclosed by petals. Disk epigynous thin 

 covering the top of the germen exserted from the receptacle to the 

 base of the calyx, sometimes pilose. Capsule at apex projecting 

 from adnate conical tube of receptacle and free, there dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally or transversely by an operculum ; endocarp 3-coccous ; 

 seeds and other characters of Trymalium. — Shrubs, for the most part 

 adpressedly stellato-canescent or rufescent, sometimes hirsute ; leaves 

 alternate flat, revolute at margin; stipules small, often fuscate, 

 caducous ; flowers ^ in very ramose compound-cymiferous umbelliform 

 or corymbiform racemes ; cymes sometimes axillary solitary. {South- 

 west. Australia^ New Zealand.^) 



30. Spyridium Fbnzl.^ — Flowers nearly of Pomaderris ; petals 

 enclosing small anthers. Germen free at apex or wholly adnate 

 within to receptacle. Disk covering either the top of the ovary and 

 base of receptacular tube or the apex of the latter when higher than 

 the germen (^^ewo&cMS^) ; cells 3, 1- ovulate; capsule inferior crowned 

 with persistent sepals and 3-valved at apex ; seeds and other 

 characters of Pomaderris. — Shrubs ; leaves oftener small, flat or 

 revolute at margin ; stipules (fuscous) persistent ; indumentum of 

 Pomaderris ; flowers capitate ; capitules in cymes or capituliform 



1 Generally white. ^ Spec. 18. Fekzl, Eueg. Mum. 21 (part.)— 



3 A genus scarcely distinguished from the Hook. Joitrn. Bot. i. 256. — A. Cunn. Field N.S.- 



foUowing. Wales, 351— F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 131 ; iii. 68, 



3 Spec. 5. Labill. Fl. Nom.-SoU. i. 60, t. 84 166, 168.— Eeiss. Zinntea, xxix. 266.- A. Geay, 



(Cea>!0«A»«).— Fenzl, Stieg. Fmm. 21, n. 5, 6. Amr. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 282.— Hook. p. Fl. 



— Bbnth. Fl. Austral, i. 423.— Walp. Ann. ii. N.-Zel. i. 46 ; Man. N.-Zeal. 43 ; Fl. Tasm. i. 76. 



270, n. 2, 3, 6-12 ; vii. 595 . — Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 415.— Lodd. Bot. Cab, 



* Fl. Nouv.-Holl. 1, 61 (part.), t. 86, 87.— DO. t. l2Q.—Bot. Mag. t. 1823, 3219, 3212.— Walp. 



Prodr. ii. 33. — Ad. Bb. Skamn. 64, t. 5. — Ann. vii. 694. 



Spaoh, Smt.a Buffon, ii. 467.— Endl. Gen. a. ' Susg. Fnum. 24.— Endl. Oen. n. 6741.— 



5743.— B. H. Gen. 381, 999, u. 23.— H. Bn. B. B. ffcw. 382, 999, n. 25. 



Foyer Fam. Nat. 229. " Keibs. Linnaa, xxix. 295. 



' Golden or greenish. 



