26 PITTOSPORACEAE. [ Pittosporum. 
a short petiole, 3—4!/2‘ & 11/4—18/s’.. Flowers both terminal and axillary 
in the uppermost leaf-whorls, in dense corymbose racemes; the rhachis 
tomentose, surrounded at the base with numerous linear bracts of 3—4", 
and bearing 15—25 flowers on pedicels of 4“. Sepals fulvo-tomentose, 
ovate, acuminate, 1—11/2’, Corolla white, with a tube of 6”. Ov. 
tomentose. 
West Maui! at elevations of 4000—6000 ft.; a very handsome species. 
ar. — Leaves glossy, paler. The corymbose racemes as densely 
and many-flowered as before, but those of the whorls raised on long 
bracteate peduncles of 2—-4', Sepals faintly pubescent, or glabrate. Ovary 
mentose. Capsule less than 1’ high and broad, deeply wrinkled. Seeds 
compressed, smooth. 
E. Maui! Hamakua (Lydg.). 
9. P. confertiflorum, Gray, Bot. U. S. FE. Exp. p. 232, pl. 19. — A tree, 
20—30 ft. high, with stout and stiff branches. Leaves whorled near the 
ends of the branches, otherwise scattering, coriaceous, with prominent 
nerves, obovate-oblong, 3—7'  11/2—21/2', shortly acuminate, contracting 
into a distinct petiole of 1‘, pale fulvo-tomentose underneath. Inflorescence 
of both sexes terminal, the numerous ae densely packed in a corym- 
bose raceme with an axis of 6—12". Pe 8s 3—6”; bracts linear-oblong, 
8”. Sepals 3’, broadly ovate, SR ak nih tomentose. Corolla 
cream-colored, with a tube of 5—6”. Ovary tomentose. Style short. 
Capsule ghiboee ovoid, somewhat flattened, the thick woody valves 1‘ both 
ways, wrinkled and rough. Seeds tuberculate and crenate at the back. 
Flowers fragrant. — Mann, Enum. no. 17 
South side of Haleakala! Maui, at an elevation of 4000—5000 ft. 
& var. — Tomentum rust-colored. Leaves smaller. Inflorescence of 
both sexes terminal at first, but the fruiting ones axillary at last by the 
development of a terminal shoot. Sepals lanceolate. 
Hawaii! Kaw and Kona; Lanai (M. & B. 337 
10. P, Hawaiiense, sp. n. — A small tree, 12—15 ft. high, sparingly 
branching. Leaves scattering or in distant whorls, large obovate-oblong, 
acute, 7—10’ oe suddenly contracting into petioles of 1—11/2', thick 
us, with prominent nerves, slightly tomentose underneath or 
ern brownish when dry. owers subsessile and clustered on ter- 
minal and axillary or cauline peduncles of 4—8”, Bracts ovate-lanceolate, 
-. 
Sepals ovate, 11/,—2”, glabrate or pubescent. Corolla cream-colored, 
with a tube of 3—4”, the lobes slightly pubescent in the bud. Ovary 
tomentose. Capsule 1‘ high and broad, compressed, deeply rugose. 
Forests of Kona and Kohala, Hawaii! A leaf-specimen picked in a gulch of the 
01 has the largest leaves in the genus, ax 4: 
