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PITTOSPORUM revolutum, 
Yellow Pittosporum, 
—_ aan 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. оті. Ріттозроввж. Brown in append. to Flinders's voy. 2. 54%, 
. PITTOSPORUM. Cal. pentaphyllus, inferus, deciduus, foliolis 
subequalibus. Cor. pentapetala, petalis inferné in tubum coherentibus, 
superné acutis recurvis. Stam. hypogyna, cum petalis alternantia; inclusa, 
Germ. superum: stylus unicus: stig. subcapitatum. Caps. 1-Joc., stylo 
umbilicata, bi-aut trivalvis, polysperma; valvulis medio septiferis: sem. 
angulata septo inserta, duplici serie superposita: embrye minutus, propa 
umbilicum, inclusus albumine carnoso.  Frutices v. arbores, inordinat? ras 
mosi, folia alterna, brevi petiolata, exstipulata, inteperrima ; flores terminales, 
exillaresve, subracemosi, bracteati. Bonpland loc. infra cit. 56, 
P. revolutum, foliis ellipticis obtuslusculis subtüs pubescentibus marging 
revoluto.. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 2. 27. 
Pittosporum tomentosum: Bonpland nav. & malmais. 1. 57.1. 91. 
Pittosporum flavum. Rudge in trans. linn. soc, 10, 298; cum icone ad sica 
cum delineatá, р 
Frutex erectus, caulescens, spars& ramosus; rami teretes, inferno versüg 
nudiusculi о. foliis paucis vagis, in surculis novellissimis ferrugineo-tomentosi, 
crebriüsque foliati. Folia sparsa, oboersà ovali-oblonga acumine ab abrupto 
brevique vari producto, deorsüm long? attenuata, subtús lunuginosa vel. pofius 
tomentosa іп junioribus tomento denso ferrugineo, tri-quadriuncialia, latitudine 
unciali y. sesquiunciali, suprà glabra, saturatà virentia, margine brevi reflezo 
cincta. Flores pallido-flavi, nutantér et simplicitér racemosi terminales: pe- 
duntulo recurvo tereti alle plos inte Ho forugineo, uni-biunctalis v. ultra, 
rifero, pedicellis plàs minds fastigiantibus, nunc quasi umbellatis, 
pese САМА aln calycinis similibus, apice reflexis, Cal. patens, | 
pallidà virens, extüs viscoso-villosus, corollá $ brevior; fololis lanceolatis, 
уйт inequalibus, intús glabris. Tubus corolle triplo longior limbo, pal- 
Жаш, cylindricus, subventricosus, suturis 5 ubi coherent ungues pelalorum 
atriatus, intús viscosus; lamine limbi fave, leves, oblonge, obtuse, ртітд ра- 
fentes, ind? revolute. Fil, alba, longitudine tubie Anth. furvo-fulve, ес 
apice emicantes, sagittato-oblon e, dorso longè supra basin appense, intro- 
“verse, rimá laterali utrinque dehiscentes: pollen flavum. Germ. oblongum 
dens? ferrugineo-hirsutum, biloculare, succo resinoso scafens, ovulis numes 
rosis: stylus teres, strictus, duplo brevior germine, virens: stig. pileato-v. de- 
presso-capitatum. 
Pittosporee is the name of a natural order defined 
by Mr. Brown, in a treatise on the vegetation of Terra, 
Australis, which forms the Appendix to the Voyage of Cap» 
tain Flinders. In this valuable tract, besides the illustra, 
‘tion of the characters of the so termed natural orders or 
‘families of vegetables, a laborious and judicious attention 
mE I p2 . 
