58 PITTOSPOREE. [Pittosporum. 
12. P. crassifolium, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 612.—A shrub or 
small tree 15-30 ft. high; branches erect, fastigiate; bark dark- 
brown; branchlets, leaves below, petioles, and inflorescence densely 
clothed with white or buff appressed tomentum. Leaves 2-8 in. 
long, oblong-obovate or linear-oboyate, gradually narrowed into a 
short stout petiole, obtuse, quite entire, very coriaceous, dark-green 
and shining above, clothed with white or buff tomentum beneath ; 
margins recurved. Flowers unisexual, in terminal umbels; males 
5-10-flowered ; females 1—5-flowered ; peduncles 2-14 in. long, 
drooping. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, tomentose. Petals twice as 
long as the sepals, revolute at the tips. Fruiting peduncle stout, 
decurved. Capsules large, 3-14 in. long, subglobose, tomentose, 
3- rarely 4-valved ; valves very thick and woody.—Putterlich, Syn. 
Pitiosp. 1s Peoul, Choia de Plantes, 48; Hook. f. Fl. Nov: Zel. 
eS Be Handb. N.Z. Fl. 20; Bot. Mag. t. 5978; Kirk, Forest Fl. 
t. 14; Students’ Fl. 51. 
Var. strictum, Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst. iv. 266.—Fruiting peduncles strict, 
erect. Capsules smaller. 
Kerermabec Isuanps: Northern shore of Sunday Island, 7. #. C. Norru 
Istanp : Abundant on the coast, from the North Cape to Poverty Bay. Var. 
strictum: Little Barrier Island, Kirk! Kast Cape, Bishop Williams. Karo. 
September-October. 
A well-known plant, readily distinguished by the strict habit, narrow- 
obovate coriaceous tomentose leaves, and large capsules. The flowers are 
usually dark-purple; but Mr. A. Osborne has sent me specimens of a yellow- . 
flowered variety collected at Tryphena Harbour, Great Barrier Island. 
13. P. Fairchildii, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx. (1888) 
147.—A compact round-topped shrub 8-15 ft. high; branches 
slender, spreading; bark brown; branchlets leaves and peduncles 
clothed with white silky hairs when young, glabrous when mature. 
Leaves often crowded, spreading, 2-3 in. long, obovate or elliptic- 
obovate or elliptic- oblong, obtuse or acute, gradually narrowed into 
short stout petioles, coriaceous, margins flat. Flowers terminal, 
solitary or in 2-4-flowered umbels. Sepals linear-oblong, acute, 
tomentose. Petals more than twice as long as the sepals, recurved 
at the tips. Fruiting peduncles slender, decurved. Capsules large, 
depressed, broader than long, 2-lin. diam., glabrous even when 
half-grown, 3-4-valved; valves hard and woody, often lobed.— 
Kirk, Students’ Fl. 51. 
Norru Isuanp: Three Kings Islands, T. F’. C. August-September. 
Differs from P. crassifoliwm in the broader flat leaves and smaller glabrous 
depressed capsule. It approaches P. wmbellatum in the foliage, but is readily 
distinguished by the silky tomentose branchlets, fewer flowers, and much 
jarger capsules. 
14. P. umbellatum, Banks and Sol. ex Gertn. Fruct. i. 286, 
. high, perfectly glabrous 
except the young shoots, which are thinly clothed with silky 
