22 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Pittosporee. 
A tree, 20-40 feet high; trunk slender. Zeaves something like those of the Tea-plant, but quite entire, 1-2 
inches long, broadly oblong or elliptic-obovate, bright green above, pale below and veined, translucent, waved, on 
petioles 2 lines long, quite smooth, or downy along the midrib. Flowers solitary, axillary, purplish, on curved, 
downy peduncles longer than the petioles. Sepals linear-oblong, silky or smooth. Petals purplish, 4-5 lines long. 
Capsules 3-7 lines long, nearly as broad, velvety when young, smooth and granulated when old, constricted at the 
base, woody, usually three-valved ; valves woody, transversely wrinkled inside, broadly obovate. Seeds small, black. 
2. Pittosporum Colensoi, Hook. fil.; arboreum, glaberrimum, foliis petiolatis coriaceis elliptico- v. 
obovato-oblongis acutis super lucidis subter pallidioribus, floribus solitariis axillaribus, pedunculis petiolo 
brevioribus, bracteis concavis coriaceis glaberrimis v. obscure ciliatis, sepalis lineari-oblongis subacutis 
tubum corolle zequantibus, petalis fructuque ut in P. Zenuifolio. P. viride e£ P. uniflorum, Col. MSS. 
Has. Northern Island, in the interior, and Middle Island; Taupo Lake, and base of Tongariro, 
Dieffenbach, Colenso. Chalky Bay, Lyall. 
A small tree, 10-12 feet high, too closely allied to P. fenwifolium to require any detailed description ; differing 
chiefly in the larger, more acute, very coriaceous leaves, the more persistent glabrous bractew, shorter peduncle, 
smaller flower, and rounder fruit. 
3. Pittosporum obcordatum, Raoul; arbuscula, ramis divaricatis glabris, folis parvis remotis bre- 
vissime petiolatis obeordatis orbiculatisve glaberrimis, floribus axillaribus solitariis rarius geminis, pedun- 
culis puberulis petiolo equilongis, sepalis lanceolato-subulatis, petalis lineari-lanceolatis, ovario pubescente. 
Raoul, Choix de Plantes, p. 24. t. 25. 
Has. Middle Island; Akaroa in shady woods, Raoul. Nat. name, “Cohou-Cohou,” Raoul. 
Thave a specimen of this from its discoverer, M. Raoul: it presents some peculiarities in form and habit 
shared by various New Zealand plants of very different genera, which are not easily distinguished from it, and from 
one another, by the leaf alone, at first sight; such are Melicytus micranthus, Panax anomalum, and a state of 
Alseuosmia Banksii.— A small tree or shrub. Leaves 2-3 lines long, very small and scattered, solitary or two or 
three together, rounded or obcordate, sometimes three-lobed, contracted at the base into a very short petiole, quite 
smooth. Flowers inconspicuous, on pedicels as long as the petioles, generally solitary and axillary, white. „Sepals 
and petals very slender. Fruit unknown. 
4. Pittosporum rigidum, Hook. fil. ; frutex lignosus, glaberrimus, ramis tortuosis crassis, foliis alternis 
fasciculatisve brevissime petiolatis crassis coriaceis lineari-obovatis obtusis integerrimis v. sinuato-dentatis, 
floribus axillaribus solitariis brevissime pedicellatis, sepalis 0 ? v. 5 parvis ovatis obtusis ciliatis, petalis lineari- 
oblongis subacutis, ovario pubescente 2-loculari, capsula compressa late ovato-cordata acuta 2-valvi. Tan. X. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; mountains near Waikare Lake, and Ruahine mountains, Colenso. 
Nelson, Bidwill. 
A very rigid, woody shrub, with stout spreading branches, and small, very thick, shining leaves, which are 
often sinuato-dentate in the young state, exactly as in the Panaz anomalum. Leaves on short petioles, $ inch long, 
narrow, obovate, cuneate, or elliptical, oblong, blunt, shining, the margin recurved. Flowers axillary, solitary, on 
very short downy pedicels. Calyx when present very small; I can find none in some of my specimens. Petals 
dingy purple, nearly as long as the leaves. Capsules downy when young, smooth and granulated when old, broadly 
cordate, suddenly narrowed into the style, and hence acuminated; valves furrowed down the back; seeds nu- 
merous.—A very curious species, on account of the leaves and the small calyx.— PLATE X. Fig. 1, flower; 2, sta- 
men; 8, ovarium; 4, the same cut transversely; 5, capsule :—all magnified. 
** Flowers axillary or terminal, three or more together, or umbellate or panicled. 
5. Pittosporum eugenioides, A. Cunn.; glaberrimum, polygamo-dioicum, foliis petiolatis ellipticis 
