Pittosporum.'] POT, VGA LA CEAE . 55 



numerous ; albumen copious ; embryo minute, radicle next the 

 hilum. 



Pittosporum, Banks. 



Trees or erect shrubs, usually green. Sepals free or connate 

 below. Petals erect, recurved at the top, claws conniveiit or 

 connate. Stamens 5, erect ; anthers 2-celled, bursting inwards by 

 slits. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, incompletely 2-3-celled ; 

 ovules 2 or more on each placenta. Capsule 1-celled, woody, 2- or 

 3-valved ; placentas in the middle of the valves. Seeds 2-9, 

 covered with oily resinous pulp. 



Flowers in paniculate often contracted racemes ; fruit '2 in. in diam. ; 



seeds 6 ; twigs glabrous 1. floribundum. 



Flowers in slender simple racemes ; fruit -35-'4 in. in diam. ; seeds 5-9 ; 



twigs glabrous 2. nilghirense. 



Flowers in stout sessile or subsessile umbels ; fruit *4 in. in diam. ; seeds 



3-4; twigs glabrous or pubescent 3. tetraspermum. 



Flowers in umbellate racemes; fruit '4 in. in diam.; seeds 6; ovary 

 inflorescence and twigs densely tomentose 4. dasycaulon. 



1. PITTOSPORUM FLORIBUNDUM, W. & A. 154 ; F. B. I. i. 199. 



Mahendragiri Hill in Ganjam at 4,500 ft. ; Hills of S. 

 Arcot and Salem ; W. Ghats from Mysore southwards, at 

 4,000 ft. and higher. 



2. PITTOSPORUM NILGHIRENSE, W. & A. 154 ; F. B. I. i. 198 ; 

 Wt. 111. i. t. 70. 



W. Ghats, in Shola forests above 3,000 ft., from Mysore to 

 Travancore. 



3. PITTOSPORUM TETRASPERMUM, W. & A. 154 ; Wt. Ic. t. 971 ; 

 F. B. I. i. 198. 



W. Ghats, in Shola forests above 5,000 ft. from Nilgiris to 

 Travancore ; Hills of Coimbatore. 



4. PITTOSPORUM DASYCAULON, Miq. ; F. B. I. i. 199. 



W. Ghats, in Shola forests above 3,000 ft., from Mysore to 

 Travancore . 



Family XVI. POLYGALACEAE. 



Annual or perennial herbs, erect or climbing shrubs, or large 

 trees. Leaves usually alternate, simple, entire or occasionally 



