PITTOSPORACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder and E. H. Wilson. 



PITTOSPORUM Banks. 



Pittosporum daphniphylloides Hayata in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 

 XXX. art. 1, 34 (1911). 



Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, cliffs, alt. 1000 m., October 1908 

 (No. 1219; bush 2 m. high); Chiuting-shan, cliffs, alt. 1500 m., 

 May 22, 1908 (No. 1219*; bush 2-3 m., flowers greenish yellow); 

 without locality, ravine, alt. 1300 m., July and October 1903 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 3233; tree 8 m. tall) ; Mt. Omei, June 1904 ( Veitch Exped. 

 No. 4745 ). 



This handsome species is closely related to P. napaulensis Rehder & Wilson ^ 

 which differs in its thinner leaves, its umbellate-corymbose inflorescence and in 

 its smaller fruits. We have not seen specimens from Formosa, but Hayata says 

 that Wilson's No. 3233 in Herb. Kew is exactly like his new species. 



In woods and thickets and rocky places at low altitudes in western Szech'uan 

 P. daphniphylloides is rather common as a bush or small tree. The leaf without 

 the petiole is sometimes 25 cm. long and 9 cm. wide. 



Pittosporum glabratum Lindley in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, I. 230 

 (1846).— Walpers, Ann. I. 77 (1848). — Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 19 

 (1861). — Hooker f. & Thomson in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 198 

 (1872). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 58 (1886). — E. 



* Pittosporum napaulensis Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 

 Celastrus verticillatus Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 18 (nomen nudum) (1814); 



Fl. Ind. I. 391 (1824). 

 Senacia Napaulensis De Candolle, Prodr. I. 347 (1824). 

 Pittosporum WalHch, Cat. No. 8127 (1832). 



Pittosporum floribundum PutterUck, Syn. Piitospor. 9 (pro parte, non Wight & 



Amott) (1839). — Hooker f. & Thomson in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 



199 (1872). 



INDIA. East Himalaya: T7. Gri^f/i (No. 270 in Herb. Gray). Sikkim: 



"alt. 5-7000 ped." J. D. Hooker (in Herb. Gray). Assam: Khasia, "alt. 4- 



6000 ped.," J. D. Hooker & T. Thomson (in Herb. Gray). 



The P. floribundum Wight & Amott with which Putterhck and others have 

 confused this plant is well distinguished by its inflorescence, which is an erect much 

 branched paniculate-corymb. In the Flora of British India the description is 

 based upon the two species. 



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