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it possessing most of the essential floral characters of that 
order, as obvious already from the Greek name (literally trans- 
lated : membrane-anther) in reference to one primary note. The 
petals are however all equal, the fruit is not dehiscent into 
three valves, and contains only one to four seeds. This bush 
bears the name of Sir Joseph Banks, its discoverer, who with 
Dr. Solander as companions of Cook shed the first light on the 
vegetation of East Australia. Still more important here than 
Violaceze in the same series of orders are the P2ttosporee. 
Many plants of the typical genus Pittosporum are well known 
here as indigenous or (particularly New Zealand species) as cul- 
tivated. Colonists have found no difficulty to convey to memory 
the name, meaning Pitch-seed (because the seeds are surrounded 
by viscidity), and thus fortunately at least this beautiful genus 
has escaped from losing in vernacular language that name, by 
which it is known through many countries of the eastern hemi- 
sphere as indigenous and almost anywhere in gardens or plant- 
conservatories. Of the three native Victorian one, Pittosporum 
phillyroides, with weeping branches, narrow glabrous leaves and 
bony yellowish compressed fruits, belongs to the desert-tracts. 
Species name from some resemblance to the spurious Olive-bush 
from near the Mediterranean Sea (Phillyrea). Pittosporum un- 
dulatum occurs here from Westernport to Gippsland. It is the 
beautiful bush much cultivated, with broad waved leaves, un- 
equally connate sepals and very fragrant white flowers. Pitto- 
sporum bicolor is an inhabitant of the Ferntree-gullies, where 
it may rise to a moderate sized tree; its leaves are silky- or 
velvet-downy beneath, and the often purple and yellow petals 
gave rise to its specific name. A common bush of this order is 
Bursaria spinosa, so called from the purse- or pouch-like form of 
the small two-celled fruit, which not becomes woody, and splits 
only at the summit. It differs from the Pittosporums already in 
having only 1-8 flat seeds in each division of the fruit, and these 
seeds placed vertically. Its small white flowers are collected into 
panicles. 
As a representative for ordinal illustration is chosen an elegant 
climber, Marianthus bignoniaceus (Fig. XLVI.), from the Gram- 
