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trunk and grey bark (usually covered with flat encrust- 

 ing lichens). Twigs straight, thickly studded with 

 yellow pustules (lenticels) ; usually in bunches of three 

 or four together. Foliage rather thick and dark. Leaves 

 whorled at the ends of the twigs, or at the forkings, 

 elliptic or oblanceolate, quite glabrous, leathery, dull, 

 dark green on the upper side, lighter below, with 

 slender but on the lower side quite distinct veins ; stalk 

 54 inch. Pedicels Ye inch lengthening to M inch in fruib 

 stout, umbelled or in short irregular racemes. Sepals 

 small triangular. Petals creamy yellow, curved back- 

 wards. Stamens stiff, half the length of the petals. 

 Style 1/16 inch ; stigma capitate. Fruit J^ inch round, in 

 colour and shape much as an orange when ripe. Seeds 

 three or four, imbedded in orange-coloured sticky flesh, 

 which smells strongly of turpentine. Endosperm white. 

 t. 20. Wight Ic. t. 971 ex. stigma. 



In and at the edges of sholas, quite common. Nilgiris : in 

 and round Ootacamund. Pulneys : on the downs. Flowers 

 December-March. Fruit summer. Fyson 1853, 1853,* 1858, 

 1925, 2210, 2211, 2620. Bourne 422, 1798. 



Gen. Dist, Western Ghats, Shevaroys, Anamalais and Ceylon only. 



Pittosporum nilghircnsc Wight and Aniott ; Herb. 

 Wight No. 141 ! ; F.B.L i 198, I 4. Nilgiri Sticky-seed. 

 Very similar to the last in general habit and in leaf; but 

 the flowers in loose racemes of I to 3 inches with pedicels 

 of ^ to I inch terminating the twigs or in the uppermost 

 leaf-axils. Wight 111. i. t. 70. 



Nilgiris : Kotagiri, Sispara, Ootacamund. Pulneys at lower 

 levels. Fyson 3000, 1717, 2111. Bourne 330, 605*, 777*, 



1449. 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats, Nilgiri, Pulney and Anamalais. 



Pittosporum floribundum Wight ; F.B.L i 199, I 6 ; 

 occurs on the Kodaikanal ghat below Shembaganur, 

 flowering profusely in the autumn and is then very 

 conspicuous. 



