Pittosporwm. | PITTOSPORE®. 5® 
fulvous hairs. Leaves alternate or subwhorled, 2-4 in. long, ob- 
ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or acute, 
coriaceous, dark-green above, paler below, narrowed into rather 
long petioles 4-$in. long. Flowers in many-flowered terminal 
umbels; peduncles slender, longer than the petioles. Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate. Petals ligulate, obtuse, slightly recurved. Ovary 
pubescent. Fruiting peduncles slender, decurved. Capsules 4in. 
diam., rounded, tetragonous or 4-lobed, 2-valved; valves woody,. 
eranulate.—A. Cunn. Precur. n. 613; Raoul, Chor de Plantes, 48 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zei. i. 24; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 21; Kirk, Students’ 
Fl. 0. 
Var. cordatum, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iv. 264.— Leaves narrower, 
linear-obovate or oboyate-spathulate, acute, gradually narrowed into the petiole. 
Capsules rounded, cordate, acuminate ; valves not lobed. 
Norts Istanp: Not uncommon along the shores from the North Cape to 
Poverty Bay. Var. cordatwm: Haratoanga, Great Barrier Island, Kirk! 
September—November. 
Easily recognised by the many-flowered umbels and roundish 4-lobed 
capsules. 
15. P. Kirkii, Hook. f. ex T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 11. 
(1869) 92.—A stout sparingly branched glabrous shrub 4-12 ft. 
high, often epiphytic; branches stout; bark reddish - purple. 
Leaves crowded or whorled, 2-5 in. long, linear-obovate, obtuse or 
subacute, very thick and coriaceous, quite entire, gradually nar- 
rowed into a short stout petiole; margins thickened, slightly 
recurved. Flowers yellow, in terminal 3-10-flowered unibels. 
Sepals lanceolate, acuminate. Petals more than twice as long as 
the sepals, very narrow linear, acuminate, sharply recurved. 
Fruiting peduncles short, stout, erect. Capsules large, 14 in. long, 
elliptic-oblong or elliptic-obovoid, 2-valved, quite glabrous, cus- 
pidate.— Kirk, Students’ Fl. 50. 
Norra istanp: Auckland— Between Whangape and Hokianga, Kirk / 
Maungataniwha, 7. Ff. C.; Bay of Islands, A. Cunningham; plateau near 
Taheke, Petrie! Maungatapere, H. Carse! Whangarei, Buchanan; Great 
Barrier Island and Omaha, Airk! Cape Colville Peninsula, from Cabbage Bay 
to Te Aroha, Kirk, 7. F. C.; Waitakarei and Titirangi Ranges, 7. #.C. Tara- 
naki—Mount Egmont Ranges, J. Adams and TY. F’. C. Altitudinal range 
from 800 to 3000 ft. December—January. 
A handsome and well-marked species, which cannot be confounded with any 
other. 
16. P. cornifolium, A. Cunn. Bot. Mag. t. 3161. — A slender 
sparingly branched shrub 2-5 ft. high, usually growing as an 
epiphyte on the trunks or branches of forest trees, more rarely 
on rocks, never truly terrestrial. Branches forked or whorled, 
glabrous, or the younger ones silkv-pubescent. Leaves whorled, 
14-24 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-obovate, acute, coria- 
ceous, quite entire, glabrous; petioles very short. Flowers poly- 
gamous or dicecious, in 38-5-flowered terminal umbels; females 
