DAI, METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA. 
Island, but is absent from Norfolk Island and from Australia. In this cole 
is soe to Sunday Island, one of the Kermadec group, where it occurs 
the sea-level to 1,700ft. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Metrosideros polymorpha, Forst. 
A tree, 4oft. to Ooft. high, varying in the shape of its foliage and the si 1ze of 
its flowers in different localities. In Kermadec Island specimens the ee. . 
of a light-green above, and the branchlets rather slender, densely clothes 
white tomentum, as are the petioles, the under-surfaces of the leaves, 
pedicels, and calymes Leaves decussate, fin. to Idin. long, including 
petioles, broadly ovate or obovate, rounded at the apex, coriaceous, ma 
slightly recurved. Flowers in small axillary or terminal cymes, few- orm ny- 
flowered, flowers in twos or threes; pedicels stout ; calyx woolly, superior ; lob 
five, small, green at the tips; netades five, pubescent on the outer sur 
Stamens on slender filaments, jin. to 4in. long; ovary adnate with the lower 
part of the calyx-tube, upper portion silky, ie leneey than stamens. Fr lit, 
woody capsule, girt round with the rim of the eae three-celled; s 
numerous. 1 } 
DESCRIPTION OF PLatE CXIX. — 
Metrosideros polymorpha, Forst. Flowering specimen, natural size. 1. Flower 
natural size. 2. Petal. 3. Longitudinal section of calyx-tube. Both magnifi 
