200 xv. PITTOSPORE^:. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Pittosporum. 



acuminate. Wall. Cat. 8128 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 112. P: ferrugineum 

 and Rumphii, Putterl. Monog. 7, 8. 



EASTEUN PENINSULA, from Monlmein to Sincapore, Wallich, &c. DISTRIB. Eastera 

 Arcbipelago, Australia. 



A spreading much branched tree ; yonng branches rusty pubescent. Leaves 2^-4 by 

 1-2 in., thin, coriaceous, adult glabrous and shining above, glabrous or pubescent be- 

 neath. Peduncles 1 in., rusty-pubescent. Flowers ^ in. long, greenish-white, 

 rusty -toruentose ; style very short, glabrous. Capsule slightly compressed, rough, about 

 4-seeded. Alton's locality (Guinea) is no doubt au error. 



ORDER XVI. POLYGALRffi. (By Alfred W. Bennett, F.L.S.) 



Annual or perennial herbs, erect or scandent shrubs, or timber 

 Leaves alternate (rarely wliorled) or occasionally reduced to scales or n, 

 simple, quite entire. Stipule* 0. Flowers irregular, 2-sexual, 3-bracteate. 

 jScpa/s 5, unequal, 2 inner often petaloid .//'/'//;/ *///>, deciduous or per.-is- 

 tent, imbricate in bud. J'e.'fi/n 5 or 3, distinct unequal, the inferior usually 

 keel-shaped. Sf<nn< //.< 8 (in Solo/i/:,,,,,/ 4 f>, in Tri<j<nii(txti'nni . r >) hypogynons, 

 filaments united into a sheath, more rarely distinct ; anthers opening by 

 terminal pores, rarely by slits. Owtry free, 1-3-celled ; style generally 

 curved, stigma capitate; ovules 1 or more in each cell, anatropous. Fruit- 

 generally a 2-celled, 2-seeded, loculicidal capsule; or ind en i scent and l-seeded, 

 or (in Trigovtiaftrum} of 3 iiulehiscent carpels. ,s>"</ usually Btropbiolate, 

 albuminous r rarely exalbuminous. DISTRIB. The whole \\orld except New 

 Zealand, chiefly in warm regions; genera hi ; species 450-500. 

 Herbs or (more rarely) erect slirubs. Capsule loculicidal, 2-celli d. 



Stamens 8, united ; 2 interior sepals aUi-form 1. POLYOALA. 



Stamens 4-5, united; sepals petaloid, nearly equal ... 2. SALOMOMA. 

 Climbing shrubs. 



Stamens 8, united ; fruit 1-cclled, iiukhiscent, samaroid . 3. SKCUKIDACA. 

 Trees or erect shrubs. 



Stamens 5, united ; fruit of 3 sanuiroiil carpels .... 4. TIUCOMAS-I i:i'M. 



Stamens 8, distinct ; fruit 1-celled, not winged .... 5. XAMTBOPHYLLUM. 



1. FOLYGAX.A, Linn. 



Herbs or more rarely shnibs. Lean-* alternate. Sepals usually persistent ; 

 2 inner larger, usually petaloid. /Y/v/As :}, united at the base with the 

 staminal sheath, the inferior keel-shaped and generally crested. >SV<////<//.< 8, 

 filaments united for tlicir lower half into a split ^heath ; anthers opening 

 by pores. Orary 2-celled; ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous. GV/y.W,' -l- 

 celled, loculicidal, 2-seeded. &;-<h almost always strophiohite and albu- 

 minous. DISTRIB. Conterminous with the order, except Tasmania. About 

 250 species. 



SECT. I. Chaxneebuxus, Tourn. (genus). Shrubs with large hand- 

 some flowers. Calyx deciduous. Ked crested, tietds with a large stro- 

 phiole, exalbuminous. 



1. P. arillata, Hamilt. in Don Prodr. 199; shrubby, leaves lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, flowers yellow in drooping racemes or panicles. \\'<dl. 

 PI. As. liar, t, 100 ; Cat. 4191 ; Griff. i\otul. iv. 535, t. 507 ; Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 

 t. 597. Chamasbuxus arillata and paniculata, Hassle, in Miq. Ann. Mas. 

 Bot. i. 153, 154. 



