PITTOSPORACEAE. [ Pittosporum. 
results a mengpaarye! of characters which renders the exact limitation of each species 
very difficult, and it is to be hoped that a closer apes “ them 
more satisfactory arrangement of a genu 
e Ty ia the hands sede system pode 
by future collectors 
f plants which until now 
alae “ig d deeply snipes 
ut, as the mature fruits of many forms are not ‘ee. yet, Pa can, fo 
the present, _ be based upo - 
ee 3 pens, however, that the porn relied 
upon in the following synopsis, although xpeninety irrelevant, coincide to some extent 
with those ste. ae the capsules and also with the color of the flowers. — ota waiian 
name of the genus Ke a» 
permease axillar ulin 
ves glabrous; Posts whtia: the raceme generally pedunculate; seeds smooth 
Flow wers pedicellate: 
~~ brag 1/s—}/s the length of the corolla-tube: capsule 
2. 
a 
glabrum. 
Sepa lanceolate acute or subulate, a the length ‘of the 
lla-tube m 
: leaves acuminate 1. P. acuminatum. 
Pedicels sh 3”), on short trina Bn leaves rounded 4. P. spathulatum 
ers sessile and glomerate d of a long pedunele 3. P. glomeratum. 
Leayes tomentose, tuse; flo Seg subsessile ; 
eds often rough at the back or hed: 
Flowers small sessile cluster; a s Hen 5.3P. pbc aie 
owers larger, on a gr i pedune tre P. caulifior 
Inflorescence t inal and in the axils of the esse Sane: 
Flowers subsessile, on pedicels less than 2 
Leaves pale st gose underneath; corolla ‘shor 7. P. Kauaiense. 
v nous Lanai or glabrate; pe Se larger. 10. P. Hawatiense. 
Flowers on pedicels of 3— 
Corolla white, its pee es as long as P 
Corolla cream-colored, the plea poet, as long = me ie 
1. P. acuminatum, Mann, Enum. no. 22. mall tree, 15—20 ft. 
i with slender taaek the sia shoots pale-pubescent. Leaves 
thin chartaceous, glabrous, spathulate, shortly acuminate to acute, gradually 
merging in a short petiole, 4—6’ < 1—1!/2‘. Inflorescence axillary. Sterile fl. 
from the uppermost leaf-whorl, in corymbose racemes of 10—20” in length, 
or (in some specimens) on long foliose axes, with the flowers single in 
the axils of reduced leaves; pedicels 12“, pubescent; bracts and sepals 
subulate, 3!/2"; corolla white, with a nat Se of 51/2’ and long acute lobes. 
Fertile fl. from the lower ges on peduncles of 8, which bear flowers 
along their entire length; the subulate s 2; pedicels 4—6; sepals 
narrow lanceolate, acute, = tube of corolla 3'/2”. Ovary tomentose 
with a brownish wool. Capsule. subquadrate, deeply tuberculate or 
wrinkled. 
Kauai! mountains of Waimea (M. & B., Wawra, Kn.), The 
It is barely possible dat @ the specimens with kn. (Kn. 207), ee the sepals 
haf eukbes nepecnent * a 
8. P. insigne. 
9. P. confertifiorum. 
runcinate tuberculate, with pedicels 
142—21a" nag specimens from Kamalo and Mopulehu, but only 1/2’ in those from Halawa. 
