58 XIY. PITTOSPOKACE.E. 



apices of the branches in some species. Sepals free or connate at the 

 base. Petals connivent at the base or beyond the middle into a tube or 

 coherent, rarely spreading from the base. Filaments subulate ; anthers 

 erect, 2-celled, bursting by slits. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, 

 inconipletely 2-3-celled ; style short. Capsule 1-celled, woody, 2- rarely 

 3-valved ; valves placentiferous in the middle. Seeds smooth, usually 

 imbedded in a viscous pulp. — Distrib. Subtropical Asia and Australia; 

 species about 50. 



Leaves and branches glabrous ; capsule size of a pea, glabrous... 1. P. Jloribundum. 

 Young branches and inflorescence pubescent or touientose ; 



capsule size of a small cherry, tomentose 2. P. dasycaulon. 



1. Pittosporum floribundum, Wight Sf Am. Prodr. (l(S34)p. 154. 

 A small tree ; bark light-colored, dotted with lighter specks. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, 3-6 by l-j-2^ in., lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, glabrous and shining above, paler beneath, undulate; 

 petioles ~-^ in. long. Flowers numerous, in much-brauched, terminal, 

 compound corymbs; pedicels glabrous or pubescent. Sepals -^-^ in. long, 

 ovate, acute or obtuse, pubescent outside. Petals yellow, ^j\ in. long, 

 narrow-oblong. Ovary very hairy in the lovAer part ; ovules about 12 ; 

 style simple, glabrous; stigma 2-lobed. Capsules pisiform, 1 in. in diam., 

 2-valved, about 6-seeded. Seeds obtusely angular, smooth, black. Fl. 

 E. I. V. 1, p. 199 ; Grab. Cat. p. 38 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 44 ; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. p. 13; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 124; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. G, part 1, p. 283. — Flowers: Apr.-Sept. Veen. 

 Yekadi. 



Tolerably common along the range of the Ghats. Konkan : in the Ghat forests, 

 Talbot, Law ! Deccan : Eotunda Ghdt, Mahableshwar, Woodrow ; Khandala, pretty 

 common, Graham; Khandala valley, Coolel Kanaka: N. Kanara, in the GliAt 

 forests, Talbot. 



2. Pittosporum dasycaulon, Miguel, Anal. Bot. Ind. pars 3 

 (1852) p. 5. A shrub or small tree; young branches clothed with 

 yellowish tomentum. Leaves 2-5 by 1-2 in., lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, glabrous or the midrib beneath downy ; petioles -j—l in. long, 

 those of the young leaves tomentose. Floviers in dense terminal 

 corymbs, clothed with yellowish tomentum. Sepals ^^ in. long, ovate, 

 very acute, densely pid)escent outside, ciliate. Petals yellow, |— J- in. 

 long, narrow-oblong. Capsules larger than in the preceding species, 

 •|— I" in. in diam., compressed, densely tomentose before dehiscence, 

 2-valved, about 6-seeded. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 199; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 p. 13; Woodr. in Join-n. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 124.— Flowers : 

 Nov.- Jan. Veen. Gdjosundi. 



Eare; sparingly distributed throughout the Western Ghiits. Konkan : Sfocisl, 

 Ualzclll S. M. Cot'NTKV : Hclgauni, h'itcliic, 131!; Riimghat, Bilchie]; near Hubli, 

 ex Niqtiel, I. c. {Melz. llb)\ Kanaka: Yacombi (N. KananiJ, Wvodrow\; evergreen 

 forests, Talbot. 



Oiij.KE XV. POLYGALACE^. 



Herbs or erect or scandent shrubs, rarely small trees. Leaves alternate 

 (rarely whorled), simple or occasionally reduced to scales or 0, exstipulate. 

 Flowers irregular, hermaphrodite, 3-bracteate. Sepals 5, free, much 



