56 PITTOSPOREZ. [Pittosporum. 
short, narrow-ovate, caducous. Ovary hirsute. Capsule small, 
broadly ovoid, apiculate, +4 in. long, 2-valved, pilose when young, 
almost glabrous when old.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 20; Kirk, Students’ 
Fil. 49. 
NortH Isuanp: Mount Hikurangi, Adams! Petrie! Lake Waikaremoana 
and Ruahine Mountains, Colenso; Tararua Mountains, H. H. Travers! T. P. 
Arnold! SourH Istanp: Nelson-—Maitai Valley and Dun Mountain Range, 
Rev. F. H. Spencer! T. F. C.; Wangapeka and Buller Valley, T. F. C.; Lake 
Guyon, W. T. L. Travers! Marlborough—Mount Stokes, Macmahon! Can- 
terbury--Lake Grasmere, Kirk! Waimakariri Valley, Cockayne! Otago— 
Dusky Bay, Hector and Buchanan. Altitudinal range from sea-level to 
4000 ft. November—December. 
The flowers are described as axillary in the Handbook, but in all the 
flowering specimens I have seen they either terminate the main branches or 
are placed at the tip of short lateral ones, as shown in the beautiful plate given 
in the ‘‘Flora Nove-Zealandie.’’ But the lateral branchlets are sometimes 
very short, giving the flowers the appearance of being axillary. 
8. P. patulum, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fil. 19.— An erect 
shrub or small tree 6—-15ft. high, glabrous except the young 
shoots and peduncles, which are sparingly clothed with fulyous 
silky hairs; branchlets stout. Leaves extremely variable, in the 
young state 1-2in. long, }-41n. broad, linear, closely and deeply 
lobed or pinnatifid, the lobes often again toothed, gradually passing 
into the mature stage, which is linear or linear-oblong, entire or 
crenate-serrate, corlaceous, obtuse, gradually narrowed into a short 
stout petiole. Flowers in 4—8-flowered terminal umbels; pedicels 
slender, in. long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, pointed. Petals twice 
as long as the sepals, obtuse, recurved at the tips. Capsules 
globose or broader than long, 4in. diam., compressed, 2-valved.— 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 50. 
SoutH Istanp : Nelson—Lake Rotoiti, Buchanan ! T. F.C.; Wairau Moun- 
tains, Sinclair; Lake Guyon, Travers! Glacier Gully, Spenser Mountains, 
Kirk! 
A very remarkable and distinct species, of which more specimens are re- 
quired to frame a good description. I have only one flowering specimen. 
9. P. virgatum, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iv. (1872) 264.— 
A small tree 15-25 ft. in height, with slender trunk and black bark ; 
branchlets, young leaves, petioles, and inflorescence densely clothed 
with ferruginous tomentum. Leaves very variable, in young trees 
4-14 in. long, linear-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, entire lobed or 
pinnatifid, gradually passing into the mature forms, which are 
1-2 in. long, elliptic- or oblong-obovate to oblong-ovate or oblong- 
lanceolate, usually entire but occasionally sinuate or lobed, obtuse 
or acute, gradually narrowed into rather short petioles. Flowers 
terminal, either solitary or in 2—4-flowered umbels. Sepals linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, densely tomentose. Petals shortly recurved 
at the tips. Capsules erect, globose, }in. diam., 2-valved, glabrous 
when fully mature.—Students’ Fl. 50. 
