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PitrosporuM Tosira. -GLOSSY-LEAVED 
PITTOSPORUM. 
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Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. deciduus. Petala 5, conniventia in tubum, Cap 2—5- 
valvis, 2—5-locularis, Semina tefta pulpa. 
Specific Charalter and Synonyms. 
PITTOSPORUM Tobira ; foliis obovatis obtufis glaberrimis 
coriaceis, capfulis trivalvibus, Hort. Kew. 
2.U. 2. p. 27. 
PITTOSPORUM chinenfe. Donn. Hort. Cant. p. 48. 
EUONYMUS Todira; floribus quinquefidis, foliis obovatis 
retufis integerrimis. Willd, Sp. Pl. 1+ pe 
1130. 
EUONYMUS Tobira Thunb, Fap. 99. Hellen Diff in Uferi 
diled. 1. p. 93. Martyn. Mill. Did. n. 6. 
TOBERA f. TOBIRA Kempf. Amen. fafc. 5. p. 796: t. 797+ 
A large handfome fhrub with very gloffy foliage and white 
flowers, which change yellow as they fade. Thefe are fragrant 
but the {mell of the bruifed leaves or bark is very difagreeable, 
and their tafte naufeous, exaétly refembling fagapenum, accord- 
ing to KaMPrFER. 
We have not feen the ripe fruit; but in its immature ftate 
it is obtufely three- rarely four-cornered 5 and a tranfverfe 
fe&tion fhows the future valves flefhy, convex, and forming as 
many receptacles of the feeds. There appears however to be 
only one loculament. Kamprer defcribes the feeds as being 
angular from preffure, and only three in number, but in his 
figure they appear to be many, which correfponds better with 
the ftate of the unripe fruit. 
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