Cunninghamiane. N. O. Pittosporez. 
TAB. DCXXI,. 
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PirTroOsPORUM RHOMBIFOLIUM,. A, Cunn. 
Arbor, foliis coriaceis rhombeo-ovatis basi cuneatis in petiolum 
attenuatis grosse sinuato-serratis, floribus corymbosis, petalis 
ellipticis patentibus, ovario basi piloso in stipitem attenuato. 
Pittosporum rhombifolium. 4. Cunn. MSS. in Herb. nostr. 
Has. Forests of the Brisbane River, Allan Cunningham. 
This, according to Mr. Cunningham, to whom we are in- 
debted for a knowledge of the plant, as well as the possession 
of it in the Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew, attains a height 
of 60-80 feet. In our greenhouse, cramped in a garden pot, 
it becomes a flowery shrub, in the course of many years only 
reaching a height of 4 or 5 feet. The flowers are white, ar- 
ranged in corymbs, axillary and terminal, at first sight not 
much unlike those of a Cornus. The germen, or ovary, has tufts 
of hairs in the broadest part; below that, it gradually tapers 
into a short stipes, apparent also in the fruit, which is globoso- 
compressed, 2-celled and bursting open into 2 valves. The 
species is remarkable for the coarse toothing of its leaves, and 
the small and densely corymbose flowers, 
Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Pistil. J. 3. Section of the Ovary :— 
magnified, f.4. Fruits :—natural size, 
