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Ovary inferior. Tomentose shrubs. Leaves alternate 1. Pomaderris. 
Ovary superior. Spiny, glabrous bush. Leaves 0 or opposite .... 2. Discaria. 
1. POMADERRIS, Labill. 
Shrubs, more or less covered with stellate down. Leaves persistent, alter- 
nate. Flowers small, in umbellate cymes, usually pedicelled ; bracts decidu- 
ous. — Calyx tube adnate with the ovary, limb 5-lobed, deciduous or reflexed. 
Petals 5 or 0. Stamens 5, filaments longer than the petals; anthers free. 
Disk epigynous. Ovary more or less inferior ; style short, trifid. Capsule 
small, its 3-valved tip free, containing 3 plano-convex cocci, which split down 
the face, or open by the falling away of an oblong lid. 
A considerable genus in Australia, but not found elsewhere, except in New Zealand. 
Leaves 2-3 in., elliptic. Cymes many-flowered 1. P. elliptica. 
Leaves | in., oblong. Raceme many-flowered 2. P. Edgerleyi. 
Leaves f— J in., linear. Cymes few-flowered 3. P. phylicifolia. 
1. P. elliptica, Labill.; — FI. N. Z. i. 46. A branching shrub or small 
tree, covered, except on the upper surface of the leaf, with stellate, white or 
grey down. Leaves 2-3 in. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse at both ends, or 
acute at the tip, quite entire, white below ; petioles ^ in. long. Cymes ter- 
minal, much branched, very many-flowered, 2-6 in. diam. Flowers fragrant. 
Calyx tomentose, and covered with silky hairs. Petals with crisped margins. — 
P. Kumeraho, A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Northern Island : abundant on dry hills, Panics and Sol under, etc. The same plant 
is very common in temperate eastern Australia and Tasmania. 
2. P. Edgerleyi, Hook./., n. sp. A small bush, more or less covered with 
yellow stellate pubescence, and ferruginous flocculent tomentum, especially 
on the young branches. Leaves f- in. long, shortly petioled, oblong, obtuse 
at both ends, above smooth or scabrid, and covered with deeply impressed 
veins, below with soft, white or red tomentum, and very prominent veins. 
Eacemes lax, few-flowered, flowers imperfect in my specimens. — Pomaderris, 
n. sp. ?, FI. N. Z. i. 46. 
Northern Island: hills south of Wangarei harbour, and Coromandel harbour, Edgerley, 
Sinclair, Jolliffe. Apparently a very rare and local plant, extremely nearly allied to the 
Australian P. betulina. 
3. P. phylicifolia, Lodd. ; — P. erici folia, Hook. ; FI. N. Z. i. 46. A 
small, erect, fastigiately-branched, heath-like downy shrub, the branches vil- 
lous. Leaves small, 1 in. long, spreading, linear-oblong, coriaceous, the 
margins rolled back to the midrib, obtuse, grooved down the middle above, 
rather scabrid above with short white hairs. Flowers numerous, in axillary 
few-flowered cymes, scarcely longer than the leaves, apetalous. — Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t. 120. 
Northern Island: abundant on dry hills, Banks and Solander, etc. A common plant 
in Tasmania. 
2. DISCARIA, Hook. 
Very much branched, glabrous, usually rigid, tortuous, spiny shrubs or small 
trees, often leafless. Branches decussately opposite, terete, green, transversely 
