112 XII, PiTTOSPOHEi^i:. [Pittospornm, 



placenta; stigma peltate. Capsule |- to | in. long, the hard almost woody 

 valves rough outside. Seeds numerous, red or brown. — DC. Prod. i. 346; 

 Bot, Keg. t. 186 ; F. Muell. PI. Vict. i. 224; FJulvmn, Pudge in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc, x. 29S, t. 20 ; UC. 1, c. ; Sweet, PL Austral, t. 25 ; P. tomentosim, 

 Bonpl. Jard, Malm. 56, t. 21 ; Sweet, Pi. Austral, t. 33 ; DC. L c. ; -P. Jdr- 

 sutnin, Link, according to Putlerl. Syn. Pittosp. 9. 



Queensland. Morctoa Bay, Fltzalan ; BrisLime river. A, Cunnivgham. 



K- S. "Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue IMountains, 72. Brown^ A. CMnninf/h am , and 

 others j nortliward to Hastings and Clarence river, ^6'^Z7f/; southward to Twofold Bay, 

 F. Mueller. 



Victoria- Ridges on the S.E. boundary of Gipps' Land, F. MneJler, 



In one specimeii in tlie Hookerian herbarium, perhaps in an abnormal condition, the 

 flowers are in shortly pedunculate umbels, both axillary and terminal. 



6. P. ferrugineum. Ait. Ilort. Kew. ed, 2, ii. 27. A tree, flowering 

 aoiuetimes as a shmL, but attaining a height of 50 to 60 ft., the young shoots 

 thickly clothed with a loose rusty tomeutuni which soon wears off. Leaves 

 from obovate or ovate, and obtuse or scarcely acuminate, to oblong or almost 

 lanceolate, acuminate, and 3 to 4 in. long, quite entire, narrowed into a 

 petiole of ^ to :^ in., rusty tomcntose on both sides when very young, but 

 glabrous above, or on both sides wdieli full grown. Peduncles terminal, 

 usually clustered several together above the last leaves, each one bearhig* a 

 cluster or umbel of rather siuall flowers^ but sometimes the common peduncle 

 grows out and the inflorescence becomes a thyrsoid or pyramidal panicle, .not 

 a corymb, as in P. inelanospermum. Sepals lanceolate or lanceolate-subulate. 

 Petals narrow, about 3 lines long, spreading only above the middle. Ovary 

 villous, with 12 to 16 ovules to each placenta. Capsule sessile, nearly glo- 

 bular, scarcely 4 lines broad, ripening usually 3 or 4 black seeds. — DC. Prod. 

 i. 3iG; Bot. Mag. t. 2075; P.tinifoUum {Ibnfolium by an error of the 

 press), A. Cunn, in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, iv. 109 ; P. ovatifoUnm, F. MuelL 

 Fragm, ii. 78. 



Queensland. Moist rocky places, Endeavour river, and Percy Islands, A. Ciinmng- 

 ham ; Franklaud Llands, M'GilUoray ; dry ridges of Albany Ishmd, F. Mueller. 



Extends over the Malayan peninstda and adjoining islands^ and the Philippines. The 

 Australian specimens have rather larger flowers and narrower-pointed sepals than the com- 

 nion Malayan form ; but in this respect the Malacca specimens are very variable, some of 

 them precisely resembling some of the Australian ones; and 1 have never seen them so 

 ohtuse as figured in the ' Botanical Magazine/ even on old specimens preserved from the 

 cultivated shrubs from whence the figure was taken. 



6. P. rubiginosum, A. Cunn An. Ann. Nat. Eist. ser. 1, iv.108. Branches, 

 petioles, and inflorescence densely clothed with a rust-coloured tomentum, 

 consisting of mucli more spreading hairs than in P. ferrugineum. Leaves 

 almost whorled, oblong-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 5 to G in. long, entire 

 or sHglitly sinuate-toothed, narrowed at the base, but ahnost sessile, herba- 

 ceous, glabrous above, softly pubescent underneath. Peduncles in our speci- 

 mens solitaiy, termiual, | to 1 in. long, bearing an nmbcl of several flowers 

 very similar to those oi P. ferrugineum. Fruit nuknown. 



Queensland. East side of Mount Cook, near Endeavour river, A. Cunnivghain. 



7. p. phillyraeoides, DC, Prod. i. 347. A small graceful tree or 

 slender shiiib, quite glabrous in all its parts. Leaves usually oblong- o^' 



