24 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Pittosporee. 
A middle-sized shrub, with erect branches, easily recognized from its congeners by the thick woolly covering on 
the underside of the leaves, on the branches, petioles, peduncles, and pedicels, calyx and fruit. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 
generally narrow-obovate, blunt, coriaceous. Bractee broadly ovate, ciliated, imbricate. Inflorescence very variable, 
always terminal, sometimes of a solitary flower, generally of several on pedicels 1-1 inch long, often having these 
collected in an umbel on a common peduncle. Flowers rather large, deep purple. Fruit very variable in size, from 
a small hazel to a large Spanish nut, 2-4-valved ; valves very woody. 
8. Pittosporum umbellatum, Banks et Sol.; arboreum, glaberrimum, foliis alternis verticillatisve 
coriaceis obovato-oblongis obtusis in petiolum longum angustatis, bracteis late obovatis glabratis, pedicellis 
pilosis subumbellatis terminalibus sessilibus v. in pedunculum dispositis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acumi- 
natis sericeo-pilosis, petalis lineari-oblongis obtusis, capsulis glabratis granulatis orbiculatis 4-lobis 
2-valvis, valvis ad suturam incrassatis tumido-bilobis lignosis. Gartner, v. 1. p. 286. 4.59. DC. Prodr. 
v. l. p. 347. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern Island; east coast, Banks and Solander, etc. Bay of Islands, Cunningham, Colenso, 
ete. (Cultivated in England.) 
A small tree, 20-25 feet high. Leaves coriaceous, bright green, quite smooth, 2-3 inches long, obovate, 
tapered into a slender petiole, $ inch long. Flowers variable in size, terminal, rather large, dull red, umbellate or 
subcorymbose ; the peduncles and pedicels covered with yellow hairs. Bracts numerous, imbricating, forming buds 
1 inch long, rich brown, obovate-spathulate, slightly pubescent, hardly ciliated. Sepals hairy, half as long as the 
petals, which are linear-oblong, 4 inch long. Fruit the size of a small hazel-nut, rounded, four-lobed, two-valved ; 
valves with a much-thickened rim, bilocular, woody and granulated on the surface, which is smooth; seeds rather 
small. 
9. Pittosporum fasciculatum, Hook. fil.; frutex ramosus, glaberrimus, foliis obovato-oblongis lanceo- 
latisve in petiolum mediocrem angustatis acutis planis super lete viridibus subter pallidis, floribus axillis 
supremis fasciculatis terminalibus, pedicellis petiolo brevioribus sepalisque lanceolatis cano-tomentosis, 
petalis lineari-oblongis purpureis. 
Has. Northern Island, Lake Taupo, Colenso. 
I advance this species with much hesitation, Mr. Colenso sends it ticketed P. viride, MSS., believing it to 
be the same as the plant for which I have substituted the name P. Colensoi (the leaves not being peculiarly green, 
and the flowers purple); but adds, that the specimens were not procured by himself. The P. Colensoi appears, 
from Mr. Colenso’s own specimens, as from Dr. Lyall’s and Dieffenbach's, to be a single axillary-flowered species, 
like P. undulatum ; whereas this has fascicles of many flowers in the axils of the upper leaves only, and terminal 
umbels besides. The leaves are similar to those of P. Colensoi, but the calyx and pedicels are thickly covered with 
velvety down and hairs. 
10. Pittosporum pimeleoides, R. Cunn. ; frutex gracilis, foliis junioribus ramulisque pubescenti-pilosis 
subverticillatis, foliis (parvis) elliptico- v. lineari-oblongis v. anguste linearibus brevissime petiolatis acutis 
acuminatisve glaberrimis, pedunculis subumbellatis terminalibus, pedicellis pilosis fl. 4 gracillimis 9 brevi- 
oribus robustis, sepalis petalisque fere filiformibus apice subulatis, capsulis ovato-cordatis rostratis com- 
pressis semibivalvibus, seminibus paucis atris. 
Var. a; folis lineari-oblongis acutis patentibus. P. cornifolium 6, 4. Cunn. Prodr. 
Var. 8; foliis patulis lineari-lanceolatis linearibusve acur.matis. P. pimeleoides, 4. Cunn. Prodr. 
Var. y. reflevum ; foliis anguste linearibus acuminatis sguarroso-patentibus reflexisve. P. reflexum e 
P. radicans, 4. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern Island. Bay of Islands, Cunningham, Colenso, etc. 
A small shrub, 3-5 feet high, common on fern-hills at the Bay of Islands, very variable in foliage, but always 
