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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 





FIG. 24. Tobira Pittosporum. 



FTG. 25. Pittosporum. 





FIG. 2fi. Cape Pittosporum. 



flowers are insignificant; the seeds 

 are peculiar in that they are con- 

 cave on one side and convex on 

 the other. [Seeds and divisions.] 



Pitt6sporum. The PITTOSPO- 

 RITMS are evergreen tsees or shrubs 

 of warm regions. The leaves are 

 alternate but clustered in an ap- 

 parent whorl at the ends of the branches ; the margins are in most species 

 entire. The regular 5-parted flowers form a cluster above the whorl of 



FIG. 27. Ksiro Fittosporum. 





