POMADERRIS discolor.
Two-coloured Leaved Pomaderris.
Linnean Class and Order. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. RH A IVINE/E. Brown gen. rem.p. 22.
Calycis tubus ovario adhuerens, lobi aestivatione valvati numero definiti 4-5. Pe-
tala totidem, (rarissime 0), lobis calycinis alterna, saepe squamiformia limbo concavo.
Stamina tot quot petala, iis opposita, sepalis nempe alterna. Antherce biloculares.
Ovarium nunc totum calyci adnatum, nunc imll basi aut ad medium adhaerens, 2-4-
local are, loculis 1-ovulatis. Stylus 1. Stigmata 2-4. Pericarpium saepius indehiscens
baccatum drupaceum samaroidenmve, rarius capsulare; semina erecta, arillo desti-
tuta. Albumen nullum aut saepius carnosum. Embryo rectus, axilis, radiculU inferll,
cotyledonibus subfoliaceis.—Frutices, aut arbusculae. Folia simplicia, alterna, ra-
rissime opposita, seepi stipulacea. Flores parvi scepius subvirescentes.
Ordo affinis Celastrineis, sed sepalis asstivatione valvatis nec imbricatis, stami-
nibus petalis oppositis nec alternis, et ovario plus minus adhaerente distinctus. Ac-
cedit etiam aestivatione calycis ad Byttneriaceas, babitu florum ad Sapoteas, sed
staminum insertione distinguitur. DC. prodr. 2. p. 19.
POMADERRIS. Calyx semiadhaerens 5-fidus. Petala 5 squamiformia coucava,
rarius 0. Stamina lobis calycis alterna iisque breviora, in petalorum cavitate juniora
abscoudita. Discus nullus. Stylus brevissimus triqueter. Stigmata 3. Capsula 3-
cocca, 3-sperma, cocculis interne planinsculis foramiue maximo per membranam
tcnuem tardius solutam clauso instrnctis. Semina erecta.—Arbusculae aut Frutices
i Nov6.-Hollandid. orti, foliis alternis subtils incanis ; habitus Ceanothi ad quod genus valdi
accedit. DC. prodr. 2. p. 33.
P. discolor, cymis subumbellato-corymbosis multifloris incano-velutinis, pilis bre-
vissimis vix manifestis, foliis ovato-Ianceolatis acutis superne glabris subtus
tomento brevissimo albis : margine scabris undulatis subrevolutis, calycibus
reflexis.
Pomaderris discolor. DC. prodr. 2. p. 33. Desf. arb. et arbr. 2. p. 383. Swt. hort. brit.
add. p. 472.
Ceanothus discolor. Venten. malmais. t. 58. Rcem. et Schult. syst. 5. p. 299.
A handsome growing bushy evergreen Shrub: branches
spreading, very slightly angular, densely clothed with a short close
rusty pubescence, so close and short that the hairs are scarcely
perceptible. Leaves ovately lanceolate or oblong, acute, of a
dark glossy green on the upper side, underneath clothed with a
very short close-pressed white tomentum, the midrib clothed with
longer and more loose pubescence, brown towards the base,
nerves pinnately branched, also clothed with a short tomentum;
margins slightly revolute, shortly undulate, very rough, occasioned
by small horny tubercles along the margins. Petioles clothed
with a short rusty tomentum, about 5 times shorter than the
leaves. Stipules lanceolate, acute, soon turning brown and
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