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PITTosPoRUM CORNIFOLIUM. CORNEL-LEAVED 
PiTTosPoruM. 
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Class and Order. 
Prentanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Prrrosporex. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-sepalus. Pet. 5, unguibus in tubum conniven- 
tibus. Caps. 2—3-valvis, medio septiferis. Semina pulpa 
resinosa obducta.—Frutices folits integris persistentibus. : 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Prrrosporum * cornifolium; caule fruticoso gracili, foliis 
oppositis elliptico-lanceolatis glabris summis verticil- 
latis, pedunculis terminalibus aggregatis villosis uni- 
floris. Cunn. MSS. 
Pirrosrorum cornifolium. Cunningham MSS. 
_ Descr. A shrub, with forked branches, the upper ones 
trichotomous or subverticillate, clothed with reddish-brown, 
smooth bark, Leaves: the lower ones opposite, the upper 
verticillate, all of them elliptico-lanceolate, coriaceous, ob- 
tuse, two to three inches long, quite entire and glabrous, the 
veins reticulated, dark-green above, paler beneath. Pedun- 
cles in clusters of from two to five or six, arising from the 
terminal whorls of young leaves, an inch or an inch and a 
half long, very slender, hairy with spreading, minute hairs, 
Single -flowered. Flowers rather small. Calyx of five 
patent, 
* From “ wirrow, to besmear with pitch, and copa, seed; because the seeds 
are enveloped in a pitchy fluid, exuding internally from the capsule as it 
 ‘Fipens, 
