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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



little more concave, with from five to eight valvate petals, as many 

 slightly perigynous stamens, and an ovary surmounted by a more 

 elongated, cylindrical style, lobed only towards its stigmatiferous 

 apex. And the fruit is not a berry, but a loculicidal capsule, with 

 from four to six valves. 



X. PITTOSPOEUM SEEIES. 



Pittospomm 1 (figs. 420-425) has regular hermaphrodite flowers. 

 On the convex receptacle are inserted five sepals, free or coherent 

 at the base, quincuncially imbricated in the bud. The corolla 



Pittosporum revolutum. 



Fig. 420. 

 Flowering branch. 



consists of five petals, free or sticking together by their edges, or 

 even gamopetalous and connate into a tube for a variable distance, 

 of contorted or imbricate prsefloration. There are five alternating 

 stamens ; each filament is free, or sticks to the two petals with 



1 Banks, ex Gjertn., Fruct., i. 286, t. 59. — 

 Lamk., Bid., iv. 426; Suppl., v. 361; 111., t. 

 143.— DC, Prodr., i. 346.— Spach, Suit, a 

 Puff on, ii. 416.— Endl., Gen., n. 5661. — B. II., 

 Gen., 131, 973, n. 1. — H. Bx, in Adansonia, v. 

 2S6 ; in Payer Fam. Nat., 349. — Schnizl., 



Iconogr., t. 236.— Lem.& Dcne., Tr. Gen., 240. 

 — Senacia Commkbs. (ex DC, Prodr., i. 347). — 

 ? ? Tribeles Phil., in Linncea, xxxiii. 307 (ex 

 B. H., op. cit., 973). — ? Quinsonia Montrouz., 

 in Mem. Acad. Lyon, x. 17S (ex B. H., loc. 

 cit.). 



