Pittosporum.] PITTOSPORACEAE. 21 
(2, rarely 3) each with 3 pendulous ovules. Fruit globose, beaked with 
the rnabe style. 
nai! (sepals gr epee (sepals pag This species differs from the Tahitian 
A. ieuiatas exactly in the e manner as X. Hawaiiense does from X. orbiculatum. 
It does not appear, Soares "that the wood is sweet-scented. 
Orper VIII. PITTOSPORACEAE. 
Sepals 4 or 5, free or partially combined, imbricate in the bud. Petals 
imbricate. Stamens as many, distinct, hypogynous, alternating 
with the petals. Ovary single, with 2 or more parietal placentas, or 
Ovules several to each placenta, anatropous. Style simple, with as many 
stigmas or stigmatic lobes as placentas. — Fruit a capsule or berry. Seeds 
often covered with pulp. Embryo minute, in cas albumen close to the 
hilum, the cotyledons short or indistinct. — Trees, shrubs or climbers, 
Mes alternate, mostly entire leaves and no stipules. 
mall Order, chiefly Australian, with a few cite or subtropical African and 
anes species, represented in Polynesia by our genus 0 
1. PITTOSPORUM, Banks. 
Sepals 5, distinct, or united at the base. Petals 5, their claws erect 
i united. Filaments subulate; anthers erect, ovato-oblong, 
opening by two lateral slits. Ovary — or sas _ with 
2 or rarely 3—5 placentas or as many c ovules to 
each. Stigma faintly lobed. Capsule opening phe ate lie eta bear 
the placentas along their middle. Seeds large, angular, smooth, black, 
with hard testa, covered with a resinous viscid pulp. — Evergreen shrubs 
or trees, the entire leaves often crowded in spurious whorls, Flowers in 
terminal or axillary racemes, panicles or clusters. 
Natives of Africa and ag ed one a cal Asia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, 
Viti assed ae and the Hawaiian 
Th — ies bivalvular rr eapsules, distinct sepals, and the petals slightly 
eS, 
shap C. 
The flowers in all of them are dimorphous, that is, they are of tw o kinds: ferti 
asily distinguishable Paes the style, which 
hile the 
a set of so 
oe concurrence of insects, bybrids will an ag wanting. m all these circumstances 
