162 GROSSULARIACEAE. 



Stamens 4 or 5, inserted with the petals. Ovary 1-eelled ; styles 2, distinct 

 or united. Berry globose or ovoid, pulpy, the calyx persistent on its 

 summit. Seeds obscurely angled, their outer coat gelatinous, the inner 

 crustaceous. Two genera and about 120 species, mostly o:^the temperate 

 zones. 



Ribes vulgare Lam., Garden Currant, European, has been planted, but 

 the climate is too warm for its successful cultivation. Lefroy refers to it as 

 Hides ruhrum. 



Grossularia reclinata (L.) Mill., Garden Gooseberry, has also been 

 planted but without success. [Eihes Grossularia L.] 



Family 5. PITTOSPORACEAE Lindl. 



PiTTOSPORUM Family. 



Shrubs or trees, with alternate, estipulate leaves and clustered or 

 solitary regular and perfect flowers. Sepals 5. Petals 5, hypogynous, 

 imbricated. Stamens 5, distinct, hypogynous, alternate with the stamens, 

 the anthers versatile. Ovary compound; style simple; stigma terminal; 

 ovules numerous, anatropous. Fruit capsular and loculieidally dehiscent, 

 or hair>^-like and indehiscent. There are no native nor naturalized species 

 in Bermuda. 



Pittosporum undulatum Vent., Mock Orange, native of New Holland, is 

 commonly planted in parks and gardens, forming a tree up to '20° high with a 

 trunk sometimes 8' in diameter, and thrives luxuriantly. Its oblong-lanceolate 

 evergreen leaves, borne in tufts at the ends of the twigs are pointed at both 

 ends, glabrous and 3 to 5 inches long; the axillary stalked flowers are small, 

 white and fragrant, followed by capsular fruits which split into two reflexed 

 round leathery valves exposing the several glutinous seeds. 



Pittosporum Tobira (Thunb.) Ait., Tobira, Japanese, an elegant shrub 

 6*^-10° high, the young twigs pubescent, the obovate-cuneate, obtuse, coriaceous 

 leaves clustered at the ends of the twigs, 2-3' long, dark green above, pale 

 green beneath, is occasionally planted for ornament; its flowers are white, 

 fragrant, about *' long, in terminal sessile umbels, the slightly pubescent cap- 

 sules 5"-6" long. The old tree at Bishop's Lodge was 46' in trunk circumfer- 

 ence in 1914. [Euonymus Tohira Thunb.] 



Pittosponim coriaceum Ait., Leathery-leaved Pittosporum, of Madeira, 

 recorded by Lefroy, has oval, obtuse, leathery leaves 3'-4' long and large white 

 flowers. The Bishop 's Lodge plant mentioned by H. B. Small under this name 

 Is P. Tohira, and Lefroy 's record may also be erroneous. 



Pittosporum tenuifolium Gaertn., Thin-leaved Pittosporum, of New 

 Zealand, taken to Mt. Langton from the New York Botanical Garden in 1913, 

 has thin, acute leaves l'-2' long, brown flowers and black seeds. It forms, in 

 New Zealand, a tree up to 40° high. 



Pittosporum erioloma Moore & Muell., Woolly Pittosporum, of Lord 

 Howe's Island, also taken to Mt. Langton from the New York Botanical 

 Garden in 1913, is a shrub, becoming 12° high, with oblong-lanceolate, shining 

 leaves l'-3' long, the corymbose flowers about 1' broad, with woolly-margined 

 sepals and narrow petals. 



