Tas. 7473. 
PITTOSPORUM sriocarpum. ‘ 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. PrrrosporE2. 
Genus Pitrosporum, Banks; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 131.) 
PITTOSPORUM ertocarpum ; arbor parva, ramulis subverticillatis, foliis junioribus 
et inflorescentia floccoso-tomentosis, foliis ovatis oblongis v. oblongo- 
obovatis obtusis acutisve basi cuneatis utrinque tomentosis supra demum 
glabratis costa subtus nervisque utrinque 12-15 validis, paniculis ad 
apices ramulorum corymbosis breviter pedunculatis multifloris, floribus 
breviter pedicellatis, sepalis ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve tomentosis, 
corolle flaves petalis in tubum sepalis quadruplo breviorem cohzrentibus, — 
ovario tomentoso, capsula globosa tomentosa polysperma, valvis lignosis. 
P. eriocarpum, Royle Illustr. Bot. Himal.p. 77. Hook. f. Fl.-Brit. Ind. vol. i, 
p- 199. Brandis, For. Flor. N.W. Ind. 19, 
Pittosporum, Wall. Oat. n. 8129, 8131, 
Solanum? Wall.Cat. n. 9074. 
The genus Pittosporwm contains not a few handsome 
shrubs and small trees that, but for the winter cold of 
England, should thrive in our gardens. Of these only 
four, as appears from the ‘‘ Handbook of the Kew Arbore- 
tum,” have as yet been introduced into Kew, and proved 
more or less hardy. They are the long established P. 
Tobira, Ait., of China and Japan-(Plate 1396) ; P. crassi- 
folium, Soland. (Plate 5978) which flourishes in the south- 
west of England, and especially in the Scilly Islds.; P. 
_undulatum, Vent. of 8.W. Australia; and P. tenuifolium, 
Banks and Sol. of New Zealand, which is certainly the 
hardiest of the four, as it well may be, from its inhabiting 
_ the whole length of the New Zealand islands as far south 
as Otago. oe: | 
P. eriocarpum is a native of the Western Himalaya in 
the provinces of Kumaon and Garwhal, at elevations of 
3000-5000 ft. Of the ten Indian species it is the only 
one that may prove hardy in this country, especially if the 
seeds were obtained from plants at the highest level of its 
range. Of the twelve or more New Zealand species there 
May Isr, 1896, 
