154 PITTOSPOREA. PirTosPonUM. 
fruit advances towards vag a be the aperture between the dissepiments enlarges, so 
that the fruit is at length decidedly unilocular, and the only appearance of dissepi- 
ments is a ridge along the middle of each valve and at the bottom of the capsule. 
These plants thus form a beautiful illustration of the affinity between a 2-celled 
ovarium with placente in the axis, and a 1-celled fruit with parietal placente. On 
cutting the ovarium of the following species lon itudinally, the lower half may he 
observed quite solid, and is, we conceive, a stalk-like torus, although externally an 
apparent continuation of the ovary. 
488. (1) P. floribundum (W. & A.:) leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic- 
lanceolate, glabrous, margin waved: racemes terminal, aggregated, i’ 
flowered, compact ; peduncles glabrous ; pedicels glabrous, arranged ly 
in a somewhat umbellate manner: sepals minute, many times shorter than 
the corolla, ovate, acute, concave, ciliated at the apex, but otherwise gla- 
brous: petals linear: ovary hairy: style glabrous: stigmas 2-lobed: ovules 
4-6 in each cell of the ovary: capsule 2-valved, compressed, 3-4-seeded ; 
valves thinnish, between crustaceous and coriaceous, inside transversely 
wrinkled.— Wight! cat. n. 976. Columala. 
This probably is the plant alluded to by Dr Wallich in his edition of Roxb. 
fl. Ind. 2. p. 393, as having been obtained from Heyne's herbarium, and re- 
sembling the Celastrus verticillatus, Roxb. (in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1804), which 
De Candolle has referred to Senacia, but which seems to us from the descrip- 
tion and figure to be a Pittosporum. 
. 489. (2) P. Neelgherrense (W. & A.:) leaves thin-coriaceous, elliptic- 
lanceolate, glabrous: racemes terminal, 2-3 together, few- (1—4-) flowered, 
lax ; peduncles glabrous; pedicels glabrous, slender, alternate: sepals mi- 
nute, many times shorter than the corolla, lanceolate, acuminated, Hs 
glabrous, slightly ciliated: petals linear: ovary hairy: style glabrous: stig- 
ma 2-lobed: ovules 4-6 in each cell: capsule compressed, 2-valved, 4-6- 
seeded ; valves thick, between fleshy and coriaceous.— Wight ! cat. n. 141, 
en Neelgherries. 544 (m 
No. 141 was sent formerly to Dr Wallich as P. viridiflorum, and 544 (in 
fruit) without a name, but A cannot find any trace of either in Wallichs 
List. Both flowers and fruit are much larger than in the last species. In- 
this, each. mass of inflorescence seems to produce but very few mature fruits, 2i 
which are of a yellowish-green colour: in the other, the fruit is abundant, 
and nearly black. usable 
490. (3) P. tetraspermum (W. & A. :) leaves elliptie-oblong, acute, cona- 
ceous, glabrous, margins slightly waved and recurved: flowers in a terminal — 
sessile umbel ; peduncles aggregated into a terminal sessile umbel, usually l5 _ 
rarely 2-flowered, pubescent : sepals pubescent, lanceolate, acuminated, m- — — 
nute, many times shorter than the corolla: petals linear: ovary hairy: styl@ — — 
glabrous: stigmas 2-lobed: ovules 2 in each cell: capsule nearly globose; — 
scarcely compressed, 4-seeded ; valves thick-coriaceous,— Wight! cat. n. " tr 
