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XV. PiTTOSPOREiK. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) 



Ovary 1-ceIled, Avith 2-5 parietal placentas, or 2-5-celled by the projection 

 of the placentas ; style simple, stigma terminal 2-54obed ; ovules many, 

 parietal or axile, anatropous. Fruit capsular or indehiscent. Seeds ^x^■m\^ 

 many, albumen copious; embryo small, radicle next the hilum— Distkib. 

 Genera 9 ; species about 90, chiefly Australian, 



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1. PZTTOSPORUM 



Erect trees or shrubs. Sepals free or connate below. Petals erect, cla^ 

 tmivent or connate. Stamens 5, erect ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, hurstiDo 



by slits. Ovary sessile or sh-"*'" -^-"— ^ ^ ^-^-i- o^^.^Allf^dt ovules 



2 or more on each placenta, 



valves placentiferous in the ±l±^^^±k.. kj^^k^^ ^...^^..., ^ 



DiSTRiB. Species about 50, subtropical Asiatic, Australian and Oceamc. 



rtly stalked, incompletely 2-3-celled; oviues 

 Capsule 1-celled, woody, 2- rarely 3-valvea, 

 middle. Seeds smooth, imbedded m pmp- 



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* Capsule 3-valved, twice as long as broad. 



1. P. grlabratum, Li7idl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. I 230; leaves ohovate 

 oblong or lanceolate, flowers in lax terminal corymbs, peduncles glanduia 

 pubescent,— ^e«^A. Fl. Hongkong, 19. .2^ 



Khasia hills, in thickets above 4000 ft., Griffith, &c.— Distrib. Amoy and Hong- 



kong. 



A' straggling blirub, brandies wWled. Leaves 2-4by|-lJ in., crial'rous, usua j 

 acuminate, base acute, white beneath. Flowers | in., pale yellow, 

 connate below, ovate, pubescent. Ovary linear-oblung, pubescent, style as 

 Capsule 1 in. or more, obovoid-oblong, many-seeded. ^ '^ -"-^i t_ tt... 



'epab sometimes 



In Griffith's Heib. there are^sJ^ 



cimens marked as from Sikkim, but probably through misplacement of tickets, v^i 

 Bpecimens are usually quite glabrous, but the peduncles are now and then downy. 



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2. P. humile, H. /. & T.; dwarf, leaves lanceolate, racemes 

 bellate few-flowered much shorter than the leaves, sepals obtuse, ^ 

 glabrous. .^^ >i;-^ 



.Khasia hills, banks of the Bovpani river, alt. 5000 ft., H.f. & T. , •' ^hort- 



A small, much branched shrub, 1-2 ft., glabrous. Leaves H-'H^J, kZ^_!,^\^^ctiii\ 



3 P. tetraspermum, W. & A. Prodr, 154 ; leaves broad-ovc 

 ceolate acute, flowers in terminal many-flowered umbels, rays slion y 

 or 2-fid, sepals ovate acute ciliate, ovary tomentose. Vi^igf^ Af- ^' 

 (stigma bad). 



NiLGiiiRi Mrs. ; and Cevlon, central province, alt. 5-7000 ft. 

 A large shrub or tn e; branches often umbelled, young puberuloiis 



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§-2 in., glabnm^ shiuiiig above, pale below, coriaceoua, acute at ^^^^ ^" * besc^n^ 

 8e^8ile or shortly peduncled, rays many, \ in., short, bracteolate, glabrous ^^ P j^^joC?; 

 Fhnrers \ in. lone, yellow green. Style glabrous, 2 lobed. Capsule globose, fe 

 2-valved, 4-seeded.— Very closely allied to P. nilghirense, 



4. P. nilgrbirense, W. c(r A. Prodr. 154; leaves broad-ovate J^'^^Jj^ 

 lanceolate, flowers in slender glabrous terminal 3-8-flowered corjia'^^' 

 ovate acute subciliate, ovary tomentose. Wight III. i. t. 70. 



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