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Frutex major. Arhuscula speciosa, aspectu fere facie Eugenice. Rami 

 ramulique teretes, graciles, cortice purpurascente. Folia sparsa, alterna v. 

 verticillato-conferta. Flores nondum vidi. Capsida granl Piperis mole, 

 bivalvis, glabra, elliptica, acuta, miuutissime tuberculata, stylo terminata. 



615. P. tenuifolium, foliis ovatis ovato-oblongisve (1 — 1^ uncialibus) acu- 

 tiusculis V. obtusis, adultis utrinque glabris nitidis, marginibus undulatis 

 saepeque convolutis crassiusculis, fioribus solitariis axillaribus brevipedicel- 

 latis, pedicellis fructibusque junioribus, capsulis 3 — 4 valvibus. Banks and 

 Sol. Mss. DC. Prodr. i. p. 347. Rcem. et Sch. Syst, Veg. v. p. 432. Gisrtn, 

 Sem. i. p. 286. t. 59./. 7.— Trichilia monophylla. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. 

 p. 306. t. 34 bis. 



Mapauriki, in dig. R. Cunn, 



New Zealand (Northern Island). — 1769, Sir Jos. Banks, Margins of 

 forests on the immediate shores of the Bay of Islands. — 1826, A. Cunning- 

 ham. At Wangaroa, on the skirts of salt-water inlets. — 1833, R. Cunning- 

 ham. 



Arbor gracilis ornata, 20 pedum altitudine. Ra7ni virgali, erecti, foliosi, 

 cortice laevi, atro-brunnei. Folia alterna, petiolata, (instar Thece) translu- 

 centia, venulosa. Flores axillares, plerumque solitarii. Pedicellus petiolura 

 aequans. Calyx laciniis ovato-lanceolatis ciliatis, corolla plus duplo brevi- 

 oribus. Petala atropurpurea, oblonga, apice reflexa, decidua. Ovariuin 3- 

 V. 4-lobatum subpyriforme, densissime villosum, stylo terminatum. Stigma 

 depresso-capitatum, minute papillosum. 



Judging from the figure and description given by M. A. Richard of 

 a plant which was gathered in fruit on the coast of New Zealand by 

 Capt. D. D'Urville in 1827, and which he has referred to the genus 

 Trichilia as above cited, it does appear evident that it is none other 

 than this species of Pittosporum, which is everywhere abundant on 

 the coasts of the Northern Island, and where it was originally disco- 

 vered by the naturalists who accompanied our great circumnavigator 

 in his first voyage ! M. Endlicher designs in a forthcoming disser- 

 tation on the Order Meliacea, to refer T. monophylla of Richard, to a 

 genus which he has proposed to name Schoutensia. 



616. P. cornifoHum, foliis (1 — 3 uncialibus) oppositis ellipticis obtusis v. 

 ovato- lanceolatis acutis glabris summis verticillatis, pedunculis terminalibus 

 aggregatis villosis unifloris, capsulis 2-valvibus acuminatis extus villosis, ra- 

 mulis quandoque pilis cinereis conspersis. A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. t. 3161. 

 — Pittosporoides verticillata. Banks and Sol. Mss. in Bibl, Banks. — /3. foliis 

 angusto-oblongis acutis verticillatis sparsisve. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). — 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. A shrub grow- 

 ing as an Epiphyte on trees, especially on the lofty trunks of the Kaikatea, 

 {Dacrydium excclsum, Don.) in humid woods on the banks of the Kana- 

 Kana, and other rivers, Bay of Islands, &c. — 1826, A. Cunningham. 



Frutex virgatus, glaber ramis dichotomis, summis subverticillatis, omnino 

 supra arborum excelsiorum truncos vivos, inter Astelias epiphyticus. Folia 



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