5d4 _ RHAMNACEAE. | Pomaderris. 
or acute, quite entire, glabrous above, veins and midrib prominent beneath. 
Cymes numerous, terminal, forming large much-branched corymbose panicles. 
Flowers bright-yellow, $-+in. diam. Calyx covered with stellate tomentum 
mixed with long silky hairs. Petals with a broad blade with crisped 
margins and a long slender claw. Capsule small, the free portion shorter 
than the calyx-tube. Cocci opening by an oblong lid on the inner face.— 
Bot. Mag. t. 1510; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 46; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
(1864) 43; Benth. Fl. Austral. 1 (1863) 417; T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
91; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 99. P. Kumeraho A. Cunn. Precur. 
(1839) n. 577; Raoul Choix (1846) 50. | : 
Nort Istanp: Auckland—On open clay hills from the North Cape to Pirongia 
Mountain and Kawhia Harbour on the west coast, and to Tauranga Harbour on the 
east coast. Kumerahou. - Septem ber—October. Also in south-east Australia 
and Tasmania. The bright-yellow flowers render this a very ornamental plant when 
in bloom. 
2. P. apetala Lab. Nov. Holl. Pl. i (1804) 52, t. 87.—A shrub or 
small tree 6-15 ft. high, rarely more; branchlets, under-surface of leaves, 
and inflorescence covered with dense white or greyish stellate tomentum. 
Leaves petiolate, 2-4in. long, oblong-ovate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse 
or subacute, irregularly crenulate, glabrous and wrinkled above, veins 
prominent below. Flowers small, numerous, in terminal and axillary 
panicles 3-7 in. long. Calyx-tube short, clothed with stellate hairs. Petals 
wanting. Anthers tipped by a minute gland. Style 3-fid to the middle. 
Capsule obtuse, sparsely covered with stellate hairs. Cocci opening by a 
valve on the inner face.—Benth. Fl. Austral. i (1863) 419; T. Kirk 
Forest Fl. (1889) t. 8; Students’ Fl. (1899) 92; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 99. P. tainui Hector in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xi (1879) 429. P. mollis 
Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv (1893) 327. 
Nortu Is~anp: Formerly abundant at Kawhia, but now extinct; between 
Kawhia and Mokau, Gilbert; between the Mokau and Mohakatino Rivers, Hector / 
T. Kirk ! CuaTHAM Istanps: F. A. D. Coz. Also naturalized in Hawke’s Bay, 
and at Geraldine, Canterbury. Tainut, October-November. 
A common Australian plant. The Maoris assert that it sprang from the rollers 
or skids that were brought in the canoe ‘‘ Tainui”’ when they first colonized New 
Zealand. 
3. P. rugosa Cheesem. n. sp—aAn erect branching shrub 4-8 ft. high 
or more; bark dark-brown or dark purplish-brown; branchlets villous 
with stellate or simple hairs. Leaves elliptic - lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, 4-ldin. long, obtuse or subacute, much wrinkled and glabrous 
above with the veins deeply impressed; the veins prominent beneath 
and densely clothed with ferruginous stellate hairs, the interspaces between 
the veins covered with longer and paler simple hairs mixed with a few 
stellate ones. Flowers very numerous, in terminal and axillary cymes, 
small, ;5in. diam. Petals wanting. Calyx-tube densely hoary with 
flexuous silky hairs. Styles divided nearly to the base. Ripe cocci not 
seen.—P. Edgerleyi Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 100 (in part); Ill. N.Z. 
Fl. i (1914) t. 28 (not of Hook. f.). 
Nort Istanpd: Whangarei Heads, summit of Mount Manaia, 7. Kirk/ T. F. Ba, 
Cape Colville and Coromandel to Tapu Creek (Hastings) ; upper part of the Kauaeranga_ 
Valley, Thames, \7. F. C., Adams! W. Townson / Mercury Bay, 7. Kirk / 
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