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Arbuscula celeriter crescens, toto vere florens. Cortex trunci 
cinereo-nigrescens, rugulosus. Rami teretes, glabrati. Ramuli 
breviter patentimque pubescentes. Folia in petiolum uncialem v. 
breviorem sensim angustata, 2-6' longa, 1-23" lata, plana, in- 
tegerrima v. rarissime grosse et acute paucidentata, patentinervia, 
retieulari-venosa, recentia supra saturate viridia et splendore 
prodita, subtus pallidiora et nitoris expertia, cito glabrata, exsic- 
catione perfacile secedentia.  Fasciculi vasorum spiralium tres in 
cicatrice fere deltoidea. Pedunculi terminales, sat graciles, tere- 
tiusculi, bi- usque tripollieares, szepius etiam breviores. Pedicelli 
1-2" longi, cylindracei, cum pedunculis tenuiter pubescentes. 
Bracteole herbacez, puberule, lanceolato-lineares; ima 1-1 pol- 
liearis, pedicello opposita; eeterz paucz partem inferam pedicelli 
sparsim occupantes. Sepala 3—4" longa, a basi latiore sensim 
lineari-lanceolata, extus parce tenuiterque pubescentia. Ungues 
petalorum i-1" longi, inferne circiter 1" superne ad 12" lati, basi 
ob marginem inflexum concavi, cum lamina intus glabri, extus 
cano albidove sericei. Lamina 3—3" longa, rhombeo-ovata, apicu- 
lata v. brevissime acuminata, patens. Filamenta longitudine 
unguium, apieem versus glabra.  Antherz lutez, 1-12" longs. 
Pollen flavum. Germen cylindraceum, leviter compressum, sursum 
paulo inerassatum, apice acutum, basi obtusum, undique cano- 
sericeum. Stylus persistens, 13-2" longus, glaber, filiformis. 
Stigmatis lobi breves, fere semiovati, demum patentes. Capsula 
in stipitem validum 2—6" longum attenuata, glabrescens, fuscescens, 
preter stipitem 1-13" longa, circiter pollicem lata, subrotunda 
v. ovato-rotunda, modice compressa. Valvsw dorso longitudinaliter 
impresse, sed ibi non rumpentes, subcoriaceo-indurantes nec 
lignescentes, intus glabrz, setate basi tenus disjunete. Seminain . 
loculis alternatim arete invicem applicita, idcirco donee capsula 
dissilit, quasi unicam seriem (Homalospori instar) in quolibet 
loculo struentia. Funieuli setacei, vix ultra lineam longi nisi 
breviores, superne dilatati. Semina fusca; nucleus pene reni- 
formis, 2-3" longus, valde compressus, ala cellulosa 1—13" lata sed 
prope umbilieum angustiore margine leniter canaliculata v. incras- 
sata cireumvallatus. 
Oncosporum bicolor hae occasione ad Marianthum (scil. nomine 
M. bicoloris) duco; valvis septifragis tantummodo a quibusdam 
congeneribus discrepans. 
Pittosporum ovatifolium. 
Arborescens, ramulis velutinis, foliis in apice ramulorum con- 
fertis, summis verticillaribus, omnibus ovatis glabris tenui-coriaceis 
venosis basi acutis apice breviter acuminatis margine undulatis 
subrepandis supra nitentibus subtus opacis, umbellis paucifloris 
corymboso-confertis terminalibus, capsulis parvis compressis orbi- 
