Pittosportun.l PittoSpOVaCeCB. J J 



A tree, 40-50 ft., bark brown, young shoots scurfy- 

 pubescent ; 1. 2-4 in., oval, acute and usually unequal at 

 base, shortly caudate, obtuse, entire, thick, glabrous above, 

 sparingly stellate-hairy and glandular (especially when young) 

 beneath, petioles h in., sulcate, stip. minute, deciduous ; fl. 

 nearly f in., 2-% in axillary fascicles, ped. \-% in. ; sep. unequal, 

 broadly oblong, obtuse ; pet. rotundate, shorter than sep., 

 strongly ciliate, pet. -scales h length of pet., rotundate, apicu- 

 late, fringed; stam. 8, rather shorter than pet., fil. hairy; 

 ov. tomentose, placentas 4, stigmas 4, very large, flat ; fruit 

 spherical, large, ii-2Mn,, pericarp thick, hard, covered with a 

 fine, rusty-brown tomentum ; seeds 4-12 or more, immersed 

 in pulp, oblong-ovoid. 



Moist low country; very rare. Ambagamuwa district at about 2500 ft.; 

 Mandagalla ; Pasdun Korale. Fl. March ; greenish-white. 

 Endemic. 



XII.— PITTOSPORACE^. 



Trees or shrubs ; 1. simple, alternate, without stip. ; fl. regular, 

 bisexual ; sep. 5, imbricate ; pet. 5, imbricate, slightly connate 

 at base; stam. 5, distinct ; ov. with 2 parietal placentas often 

 meeting in the middle and so falsely 2-celled, ovules few or 

 numerous ; fruit a tardily 2-valved capsule ; seeds few, with a 

 small embryo in copious endosperm. 



PITTOSPORUM, Banks. 

 For characters, see Order. — Sp. about 50; 9 in i^^'. B, Ind. 



Fls. in simple, sessile umbels . . . . i. P. tetraspermum. 

 Fls. in long-stalked, racemose corymbs . . 2. P. zeylanicum. 



I. P. tetraspermum, W. and A. Prod. p. 154 (1834). 

 Thw. Enum. 68. C. P. 572, 3994 (?). 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 198. Wight, Ic. 971. 



A small tree or shrub, young shoots glabrous ; 1. i|-3 in., 

 sub-verticillate, crowded, lanceolate or oval, tapering to base, 

 subacute, entire or nearly so, glabrous, thick, reticulate vena- 

 tion conspicuous beneath, petioles \ in. or less ; fl. few, in 

 small, terminal, nearly sessile umbels, ped. |-f in., slightly 

 pubescent ; sep. narrow -lanceolate, acuminate, pet. nearly 

 \ in,, erect, strap-shaped ; capsule globose, | in., apiculate, 

 valves flat; seeds 4. 



