Hymenanthera.] VIOLARIE. 51 
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5. H. chathamica, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 
§14.—An erect glabrous shrub; bark furrowed, dotted with minute 
lenticels. Leaves alternate, 2-5in. long, lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, coriaceous, acute, narrowed into a short petiole, sharply 
toothed ; margins thickened; veins reticulate on both surfaces. 
Flowers in crowded fascicles along the branches, dicecious ; pedicels 
slender, longer than the flowers, decurved. Male flowers: Sepals 
ovate, free almost to the base. Petals more than twice as long as 
the sepals, revolute at the tips. Anthers with a lanceolate jagged 
connective more than half as long as the cells ; dorsal scale cuneate- 
spathulate. Female flowers not seen. Berry ovoid or subglobose, 
white, usually 4-seeded. Seeds angled, outer surface convex ; 
strophiole small.—Students’ Fl. 45. H. latifolia var. chathamica, 
FF’, Muell. Veg. Chatham Is. 9. 
Nort Istanp: Wellington—Patea, Hector! CHaTHam IsLaNpDs: Capt. 
G. Mair! H. H. Travers! F. A. D. Cox! Mahoe. Septem ber—October. 
There is little to separate this from the preceding except the longer and 
narrower sharply toothed leaves and the 4-seeded berry, and I doubt the con- 
stancy of this latter character. Sir James Hector’s Patea specimens have 
neither flowers nor fruit, but appear to belong to the same species. 
Oxper V. PITTOSPOREAS. 
_ Trees or shrubs, rarely climbers. Leaves alternate or whorled, 
simple, seldom toothed or lobed, exstipulate. Flowers regular, 
hermaphrodite or more rarely unisexual, terminal or axillary. 
Sepals 5, free or connate at the base, imbricate. Petals 5, 
hypogynous, imbricate, often cohering at the base, limb spread- 
ing or recurved. Stamens 5, hypogynous, free; anthers ver- 
satile. Ovary normally 1l-celled, with 2-5 parietal placentas, 
but often more or less completely 2-5-celled from the intru- 
sion of the placentas ; style simple; ovules usually numerous on 
each placenta. Fruit capsular or succulent and indehiscent. 
Seeds generally numerous; albumen copious; embryo minute, with 
the radicle next the hilum. 
Genera 9; species about 120. The order is confined to Australia, with the 
exception of Pittosporwm itself, which has a wide distribution in the warm 
regions of the Old World. Many of the species are more or less resinous and 
aromatic. 
PITTOSPORUM, Banks. 
Trees or shrubs, glabrous or tomentose. Leaves alternate or 
subverticillate, usually entire, rarely sinuate-toothed or lobed. 
Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary or in fascicles umbéls or 
corymbs. Sepals free or connate below. Petals 5, with erect 
claws, often connivent below; tips recurved. Stamens 5, erect; 
filaments subulate ; anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovary incompletely 
2-4-celled ; style. short.. Capsule globose, ovoid or obovoid, 
