Pittosporum.] PITTOSPORBH. 5d 
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oblong or lanceolate, acute, tomentose. Petals ligulate, sharply 
recurved. Ovary silky. Capsules larger than in P. tenwtfoliwm,. 
Zin. diam., globose or broadly obovoid, 3-valved, rarely 2-valved, 
downy or nearly glabrous.—Students’ Fl. 48. 
Var. viridifolium, Kirk, l.c.—Branchlets more numerous, slender. Leaves. 
thinner, oblong-obovate, acute, tapering into the petiole, perfectly glabrous. 
Flowers axillary, solitary. Approaches P. Colensoi, and has equal claims to be 
considered a large-leaved form of that species. 
NorrH Istanp: Auckland—Great and Little Barrier Islands, Kirk ! Cape 
Colville Peninsula, from Cabbage Bay to Ohinemuri, Kirk! T. F.C. Var. viri- 
difolium: Rotorua, Kirk! Taranaki—Urenui, 7. #. C.; near Mount Egmont, 
Tryon! SoutH Isuanp: Milford Sound, Krk ! October-November. 
Varies much in the number and position of the flowers, which may be either 
solitary and axillary, or collected into few-flowered cymes, which are then mostly 
terminal, constituting Mr. Kirk’s var. fasciatwm. The typical form appears to 
be restricted to the Auckland District. I leave the var. viridifoliwm as Mr. 
Kirk placed it, but probably it would be more appropriately included in P. 
Colensoi. 
6. P. obcordatum, Raoul, Choix des Plantes, 24, t. 24. —A 
shrub or small tree 8-1d5ft. high; bark pale; branches numerous, 
spreading, often tortuous, the younger ones silky towards the tips. 
Leaves alternate or in alternate fascicles of 2-4, 4-4in. long, 
broadly obovate or obcordate, gradually narrowed into a short 
slender petiole, coriaceous, entire, glabrous or the margins under- 
surface and petioles more or less silky-pubescent, veins con- 
spicuous beneath. Flowers small, ¢in. long, axillary, solitary or 
2-3 together, pale-purple or almost white; peduncles short, slender, 
silky. Sepals very short, ovate-lanceolate, silky with white hairs. 
Petals linear, with spreading tips. Ovary silky. Capsule ovoid, 
acuminate, glabrous when old, about +in. long, 2-valved.—Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 22; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 20; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 48. 
Nort Isnanp: Auckland—Outlet of Lake Tongonge, near Kaitaia, R. H. 
Matthews! Soutn Istanp: Canterbury—Shady woods near Akaroa, Raoul. 
September—October. 
Mr. Matthews’s specimens, from which the above description is drawn up, 
appear to differ from the type in the young leaves and branchlets being silky- 
pubescent. In all other respects they match Raoul’s plate very closely. 
7. P. rigidum, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 22, t. 10.—A rigid 
much and closely branched shrub 4-12ft. high; branches stout 
and woody, spreading, usually tortuous and interlaced, rarely 
slender and erect; young shoots usually pubescent. Leaves small, 
alternate or fascicled on short lateral branchlets, +-3in. long, 
linear-obovate to oblong or elliptical, very thick and coriaceous or 
almost membranous, entire or sinuate-toothed or even deeply and 
irregularly lobed, glabrous or nearly so; margins recurved ; petioles 
short, stout. Flowers small, solitary, either obviously terminal on 
the branches or seated at the tip of short arrested branchlets and 
thus appearing axillary, sessile or on very short peduncles. Sepals. 
