Pittosporum.| PITTOSPORACEAE. 23 
Of the form from this last locality I only hold twigs with advanced capsules similar 
to those from the other localities, but their leaves are — broader, somewhat obtuse, 
and of a dark brownish tinge when dry, not olivaceous as in the other forms; in all 
private ee, ge the leaves of P. insigne from W. Maul: of which I posses only sterile 
terminal flow 
2. P. glabrum, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 110. — A small tree, 
10—15 ft. high, glabrous throughout, the grayish pubescence of the young 
shoots soon deciduous. Leaves on slender branches, in loose whorls, 
chartaceous, spathulate or ——— acuminate, gradually merging in a 
short petiole, 5—6‘ X 1 Inflorescence quite glabrous, in axillary 
corymbose racemes of 6—12 flowers, those of the sterile fl. on the latest 
whorls near the apex, with an axis of 6—8”, the fertile ones lower down, 
often cauline, with an axis of 3—6“. Pedicels 3. Sepals 8 1/2—8/4", 
glabrous, obtuse. Corolla pure white, Hc a tube of 4'/2 in the staminate, 
of 31/2" in the pistillate flowers. Ovary glabrous. Capsule at first ovoid 
shallow waves or wrinkles, the valves after dehiscence quite flat, about 
. each way. Seeds black, shining, compressed, angular, smooth at the back, 
—3" broad. — Gray, Bot. U.S. E. E. p. 229. — Mann, Enum. no, 21, 
Forests of Oahu! from Manoa to Ewa. 
wr. — Leaves somewhat larger. The nodding peduncle (18”) and 
ey, (3—6“) covered with a pale pubescence. Sepals 1—1'/2’, ovate, 
obtuse or acuminate, pubescent but soon glabrate. Ovary tomentose. — 
P. spathulatum, Mann, in part. — P. terminaloides, var. ~, Gray. 
u! oe eee A similar form with arate and more tomentose sepals is com- 
mon on iteto 
3. P. glomeratum, sp. n. — A small tree with slender virgate branches, 
their leaf-whorls at ave ervals of 2—4‘, the young shoots cinereous- 
Sieg et Leaves spathulate, elongate, 6—9’ X 1—2!/s’, acuminate or ob- 
tuse, gra y narrowing into a petiole of 1‘ or less, chartaceous, glabrous. 
‘-Peduncles ater 1—11/2‘ long, bracteate, with a dense cluster of almost 
sessile flowers at the apex, p cent, the lanceolate bracts 1'/:—3”, 
Sepals ovate, obtuse, 1—1! ja! “ tomentose. Corolla white, with a tube of 
5“. Ovary tomentose. Fertile fl. shorter on shorter peduncles, Capsule 
and seeds as in no. 2, the latter 4 broad, smooth at the back. 
Eastern end of Oahu, Wailupe! 
8 var. acutisepala. — Sepals and bracts narrow coosescsoepaagitss even subulate, 
the former 1/2 the length of the corolla, the latter about 3’. Sterile fl. 
clustered at the ends of long bracteate peduncles, the fertile ones few, 
often single in the axils, with short pedicels on reduced peduncles of 1” 
or less. 
Same region, Palolo to Niu! 
