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Pomaderris.] ''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 578; Raoul, Choix, 50; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 46. P. amœna, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xvii. (1886) 258.

Much-branched rigid shrubs or small trees, with opposite often spinous branchlets. Leaves opposite or fascicled, sometimes wanting. Flowers axillary. Calyx membranous, free or adnate to the ovary at the base; limb campanulate, 4–5-lobed. Petals 4–5, hooded, often wanting. Stamens 4–5; filaments short. Disc adnate to the base of the calyx-tube, annular. Ovary more or less sunk in the disc, 3-lobed, 3-celled; style slender; stigma 3-lobed. Drupe (or capsule) dry, coriaceous, 3-lobed, endocarp separating into 3 2-valved crustaceous cocci. Seeds with a coriaceous testa.

1. D. Toumatou, Raoul, Choix de Plantes, 29, t. 29.—A much-branched thorny bush or small tree 2–15 ft. high or even more, glabrous or slightly puberulous. Branches divaricating, flexuous; young ones green, terete; branchlets reduced to opposite distichous or decussate rigid spines 1½–2 in. long. Leaves often wanting, fascicled below the axils of the spines or opposite on short shoots, ½–¾ in. long, linear-obovate or oblong-obovate, obtuse. Flowers small, $1⁄6$ in. diam., greenish-white, fascicled with the leaves below the axils of the spines; pedicels short, puberulous. Calyx-lobes 4–5, reflexed. Petals wanting. Capsule $1⁄5$ in. diam., globose, deeply 3-lobed.—''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 44; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 136; Students' Fl.'' 93. D. australis, Hook., var. apetala, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 47. Notophœna Toumatou, ''Miers in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.'' Ser. iii. v. (1860) 371.





Trees, shrubs, or woody climbers, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, often compound, exstipulate, seldom stipulate. Flowers regular or irregular, generally unisexual or polygamous; inflorescence very various. Calyx 3–5-lobed or of as many free sepals, divisions often unequal in size, imbricate or valvate. Petals 3–5 or wanting, free, equal or unequal, often bearded or glandular at the base within, imbricate. Disc very various,