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410 5, filaments inserted near the top of the corolla-tube, long or short; anthers exserted or included. Hypogynous scales free or connate. Ovary 5-celled; style long or short; stigma small; ovules solitary, pendulous from the top of the cell. Fruit a baccate drupe with 5 (or more) distinct 1-seeded pyrenes or nuts, sometimes fewer by abortion.

1. P. pumila, R. Br. Prodr. 549.—A much and closely branched dwarf shrub 2–6 m. high; stems stout, woody, procumbent; branches ascending, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves numerous, crowded, suberect, ⅛–⅕ in. long, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse or with a callous tip, glossy, concave above, 3–7-nerved beneath; margins finely ciliolate. Flowers almost sessile, solitary at the tips of the branchlets, about ¼ in. long, white or red. Bracts several, small, obtuse; bracteoles much shorter than the calyx. Sepals obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla-tube cylindrical, much longer than the calyx; lobes short, recurved, bearded within. Berry rather large, ¼–½ in. diam., globose or broadly pyriform, red; pyrenes quite free, varying in number from 5 to 10, but usually 8.—''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 217; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 410; Raoul, Choix, 44; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 166; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 178; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iv. 164. P. rubra, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxviii. (1896) 601. P. polyphylla, Col. l.c. xxxi. (1899) 274. Trochocarpa novæ-zealandiæ, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxviii. (1896) 602. Epacris pumila, ''Forst. Prodr.'' n. 70.

Shrubs, sometimes tall and erect, sometimes low-growing and diffuse or prostrate. Leaves scattered or imbricate, flat or convex, striate, often white beneath. Flowers small, axillary and solitary, on short peduncles; bracts several, imbricating, the uppermost larger and almost concealing the calyx. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube usually longer than the calyx, rarely shorter; lobes 5, spreading or recurved, glabrous or bearded inside. Stamens 5, inserted near the top of the corolla-tube; filaments short, filiform or thickened; anthers oblong or linear, wholly or partly included in the corolla-tube or in the erect base of the lobes. Hypogynous disc cup-shaped or annular, or of 5 free scales. Ovary 3–5-celled (rarely 8–10-celled); style filiform; stigma small; ovules solitary, pendulous from the top of the cells. Fruit a baccate drupe; raesocarp fleshy; endoearp bony, 3–5-celled; cells 1-seeded.