Tas. 8305. 
PITTOSPORUM Corenso1. 
New Zealand. 
PITTOSPORACEAE. ‘Tribe PITTOSPOREAE. 
Pritrosrorum, Banks; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 181. 
Pittosporum Colensoi, Hook, f. Fi. Nov,-Zel. vol. i. p. 22; Cheeseman, Man, 
N. Zeal. Fl, p. 53; affinis P. tenuifolio, Banks et Sol., a quo foliis 
coriaceis marginibus planis et bracteis subpersistentibus distinguitur. 
Arbuseula cortice nigro. Ramuli validiusculi, fusci, pilis longs mollibus 
puberuli. Jolia patentia, versus apicem recurva, elliptico-oblonga, 
oblongo-lanceolata vel obovato-oblonga, apice acuta, basi obtusa vel rotun- 
data, 3-7 em. longa, 2-3 cm. lata, coriacea, supra saturate viridia, sub- 
nitidula, costa pallidiore, subtus pallide viridia, crebre reticulata; petioli 
usque ad 1 cm. longi. Jnflorescentia terminalis et axillaris, floribus 
solitariis vel ternis. Bracteae pedicellos inferne imbricantes, subpersistentes, 
oblongae, acutae vel apiculatae, 3°5-5-5 mm. longae, 3-3°5 mm. latae, 
urpureae, extra sparse brunneo-villosae, praesertim versus margines. 
Pedicelli 8-10 mm. longi. Sepala latissime ovata, apiculata, 4°5 mm. 
longa, 3-5-4°5 mm. lata, extra sparse villosa. Pefala oblanceolata, obtusa 
vel rotundata, 1-5 cm longa, 5 mm. lata, valde reflexa, marginibus leviter 
reflexis. Filamenta 6°5 mm. longa, glabra; antherae 2°5 mm. longae. 
Ovarium ovoideo-oblongum, 4 mm. longum, sparse villosum, 2-3-loculare ; 
stylus 2 mm. longus; stigma capitatum viridi-luteum.—/’. tenuifolium, 
var. Colensoi, Kirk, Stud, Fl. N. Zeal. p. 47.—T. A. SPRAGUE. 
The genus Pittosporum is confined to the eastern hemi- 
sphere throughout the more mildly temperate and subtropical 
regions of which its species, some fifty in number, are widely 
spread. It is most highly differentiated in New Zealand, 
which is the home of about twenty-five per cent. of the 
forms so far characterised. Already seven plates in this 
work have been devoted to the illustration of its species ; 
tt. 1396, 1684, 2075, 3161, 4799, 5978 and 7473. For the 
material from which the figure now given of yet another 
form, P. Colensoi, Hook f., has been prepared, we are 
indebted to Mr. T. A. Dorrien Smith, in whose garden at 
Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly, this species, which in most 
other parts of the United Kingdom is decidedly tender, 
forms a handsome shrub which thrives vigorously and 
flowers freely in the open. P. Colensoi is very nearly 
allied to P. tenuifolium, Banks & Sol.; so many forms that 
appear to be intermediate between’ the two have been 
Maron, 1910. 
