Tas. 5978. 
PITTOSPORUM CRASSIFOLIUM. 
Native of New Zealand. 
Nat. Ord. PirrosporE®. 
Genus Pirrosrorum, Banks. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl, vol. i. p. 151), 
PirtosporuM crassifolium ; ramulis foliis subtus petiolis et inflorescentia to- 
mento albo y. fulvo appresso dense obtectis, foliis alternis in petiolum 
angustatis obovatis lineari-obovatis oblongisve obtusis integerrimis 
crasse coriaceis marginibus recurvis, floribus umbellatis fasciculatis sub- 
solitariisve terminalibus, bracteis ad basin pedunculi oblongis, sepalis 
lineari-oblongis tomentosis, petalis angustis purpureis, capsula nutante 
subglobosa 2—4 loba 2—4 valvi pubescente. 
Pirrosporvm crassifolium, Banks and Sol. ez A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist., 
vol. iv. (1840) p. 106; Putterl. Monog. Pittosp. p. 12; Hook. f. Foy fae 
New Zeald., vol. i. p. 23; Handbook of N. Zeald. Flora, p. 20. 
A not uncommon bush or small tree in the Northern 
Island of New Zealand, where it affects the immediate neigh- 
bourhood of the coast ; but it does not cross Cook’s Straits to 
the larger or Southern Island, a fact that is sufficiently 
curious, seeing that the climate of Scilly, from whence the 
specimens here figured were procured, is certainly more 
inclement than that of the New Zealand provinces of Canter- 
bury and Nelson. It is one of the plants called “ Karo ” by 
the natives, a name apparently applied to several species of 
the genus, and is recommended for extensive planting in the 
Islands, on account of its hardihood and power of with- 
standing the sea winds. My friend, Mr. Augustus Smith, of 
Tresco Abbey, Scilly Islands, informs me that the plant 
which he received from Kew thrives in his garden, and that 
nothing can exceed the vigour and robustness of the flowering 
branches which he sent me last March. In Eastern Eng- 
land it requires the protection of a wall, and is not unfre- 
quently cut off by frost. : 
Dxscr. A bush or small tree, four to ten feet high, 
JULY Ist, 1872. 
