110 XII. PITTOSPORE^. [PiUosporum, 



globose, ovate or obovatc, often laterally compressed • tlie valves coriaceous or 

 thick and hard, bearing the placentas along their centre. Seeds thick or glo- 

 bular, not winged, often enveloped in a viscous liquor, — Shrubs or trees, gla- 

 brous, or rarely tomeutose. Leaves usually evergreen, entire or minutely 

 toothed, the upper ones frequently collected into a false \\'horL blowers not 

 large, axillary or terminal, solitary or in close corymbose panicles. 



A large genus, dispersed over the warmer regions of Africa, Asia, the Pacific islands, and 

 New Zealand. The Australian species are all eudemic excepting one w^hich is common to 

 eastern tropical Asia and the eastern Archipelago. 



Flowers numerous, small, in compound terminal coiymhsj with the 



lower branches axillary. 

 Leaves ovate-rhomboid, toothed- Sepals obtuse 1. P.rJtomllfohum, 



Leaves from obovate to oblong or lanceolate, quite entire. 

 Sepals subulate or subulate-pointed. 

 Young leaves and intlorescence rusty-tomeutose , , . , . 5. P.ferrugincmn. ^ 



Plant glabrous % F.melanospermnm, 



Peduncles all terminal, clustered, short, each bearing a short simjde 

 cyme or umbel. 

 Glabrous, or the young shoots and inflorescence very slightly 



pubescent. Flowers about \ in. long , 3. P. nndnlattm. 



Young shoots and iuflorescence rusty-tomentose or lursute. 



Flowers about i in. Capsule f in., very rough 4, P. revoIuUim, 



Flowers 3 to 4 lines. Capsule under i in. 



Leaves on long petioles, ovate to oblong-lanceolate. To- 



mentum short and crisp 5. F.ferruf/meum, 



Leaves nearly sessile, obloug-lanccolatc. Tomentum almost 



hirsute 6. P, rnllglnosim. 



Pedicels axillary, solitary or clustorcdj 1 -flowered, the uppermost 



sometimes in a terminal cluster* 



Leaves glabrous, flat. Flowers yellow 7- P* i)liil^r^o^^^^^' 



Leaves revolutc on the margins, glabrous above, tomcntosc or 



silky underneath. Flowers purple and yellow 8. P. hlcolor, 



Donbtful species. Leaves very small. Flowers terminal, 1 line 



long 9- P, parviflorum. 



rhombifoli-um 



A tree, attain- 



ing, according to A. Ciinningliam, CO to 80 ft., glabrous in all its parts. 

 Leaves rlioiiiboid-oval or rarely broadly o1)long-lanceolate, mostly 3 to 4 ui. 

 long, coarsely and irregularly tootbed fj'om the middle upwards, narrowed 

 into a petiole of ^ to 1 in., coriaceous and shining, l)ut with the pinnate and 

 netted veins prominent on both sides. Tlower white, numerous, and rather 

 small, in a dense terminal compound eorymb, the branclies sometimes mimitcly ^ 

 glandular. Sepals obtuse, rather more than 1 line. Petals oblong, about 3 

 lines long, sprcadhig from below the middle. Ovary shortly stipitate, the 

 tliick placentas nearly meeting, each bearing about 12 to 14 ovules. Capsiue 

 more or less obliquely pear-shaped, or almost globuhar, usually about 3 hnes 

 long, and ripening 2 or 3 black seeds. 



Queensland. ^Ylde Bay, i?;r7/^i//; forests on the lirisbane river; J. Cunningham} 

 Araucaria range, between Brisbane and Dawson rivers and edge of the Killai-ney scnib, 

 near Warwick, F, Mueller, 



N, S. Wales, Clarence river. Iler&. JP. Mneller. 



This has some general afTuiity, especially in inflorescence, with the East Indian P. fi^^'^^ 

 hnndum, IV. and Am., but is quite distinct both in foliage and flowers. 



