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- or Bhruba Lean g simple, all pul, s, usually entu 



• ited. 1 lowers terminal or axillary, /" . with imbnc 

 deciduous, either distinct or partially c Petals 



. bypogynous, sometimes slightly coberu 

 5, bypogynous, distinct, alternate with the petals. Anl 

 two-celled, opening longitudinally or by a | re. Ovary 

 le, distinct, with the cells or the placenta 2 or more 

 in number, and man} seeded : Btyle 1 ; ! in 



number to the placentae ; ovul< - horizontal 

 anatropal. Fruit capsular or berried, with nun 

 cells, wliich are sometimes incomplete. Seeds i 

 coven .1 with a glutinous or resinous pulp ; embryo minute, 

 near the hilum, lying in fleshy albumen ; radicle rather 

 long ; cotyledons very short. 



n. in est ablishin g tlii> as an Order, remarks that 

 it i- widely different from Rhamnada and Spindleb 

 but he -..ins to have been unable to point out it- real 

 affinity ; De Candolle places it between Milkwort- and 

 Frankeniads; according to Achille Richard, it i- ■ 

 Dear Rueworts, to which lie think- it allied by :i crowd of 

 characters. Endhcher puts it into his Frangula 

 ip. To me, however, it appears that the great i 

 ilbumen in the seeds, the minute embryo, and the 

 ml accordance ol tin- flowers with the structure 

 \ eworts, which is further establiahed bj the a 

 fruit and climbing luil.it ..t Billardiera, seem to place Pit- 

 tosporads in tin- same Alliance a- thi I pry. 



I ttle g nus Cheiranthera forms a transition from 



Pittosporads to hill, niads, at once curious and unexpt cted. 



Chiefly New Holland plants. A few occur in Africa and the ad 

 and one m Nipal. Brown remarks that Pittosporum iteeli 



Holland, but also in New Zealand, Norfolk [aland, the - 

 Is, tli.- Moluccas, i tuna, Japan, and . vea Mad< ira, I 

 America 



The berries of Billardiera are eatable; but they ha' 

 subacrid taste. Tin- Lark of Pittosporum Tobira has a resu 

 quality seems verj general in the Order. .Mr. Backhi i 



bibs ha- a green cylindrical fruit, be< ung of a 1 



npe, possessing a ph asant subacid taste ; but the seeds an 





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