Pittosporum.] PITTOSPOREZ (Sond.) 443 
Orpen XXXVIII: PITTOSPOREZ, R. Br. 
(By W. Sonper.) 
(Pittospores, R. Br. in Flinder’s Voy, 2.542. DC. Prod..1. p. 3453 
Gen. No, cexxxiv. Pittosporacer, Lindl. Veg. Kingd. No. clxi.) 
Flowers perfect, mostly regular. Calyw 5 parted or cleft, its segments 
imbricate in estivation. Petals 5, hypogynous, free or with connate 
claws, imbricate, deciduous. Stamens 5, hypogynous, free; anthers 2- 
celled, introrse. Ovary syncarpous, free, 2-5-celled ; ovules numerous, 
axile ; style single, terminal ; stigma obtuse or capitate. Fruit 
or fleshy and pulpy. Seeds numerous (often lying in pulp), with copious 
albumen and a minute embryo. 
Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing, very numerous in Australia, with outlying spe- 
cies in the Islands of the Pacific, Japan, Tropical Asia, the Mauritius, South Africa, 
and the Canary Islands. The typical genus, Pittosporum, has as wide a range as the 
Order ; the ro or 12 others associated with it are all confined to Australia. Leaves 
alternate, petiolate, simple, entire or pinnatifid, sub-coriaceous, exstipulate. Flowers 
ary or terminal, solitary or in racemes, corymbs or cymes ; amen ene, 
white, red, blue, yellow, or greenish. 
I. PITTOSPORUM, Seland 
Calye 5-cleft or parted. Petals 5, their claws erect, connivent ; limbs 
Spreading. Filaments subulate. Ovary sessile, imperfectly 2—s-celled ; 
ovules many; style short, stigma sub-capitate, Capsule sub-globose or 
obovate, with leathery, thick valves, carrying the septa on the face. 
Seeds lying i in viscid resin and often massed together in a lump. Endl. 
Gen. 5661. DC. Prod. 1. p. 346. 
Shrubs or trees, widely dispersed. Leaves entire or toothed, Rees terminal 
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