Pittosporea.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 37 
tube. Stamens five, with slender filaments. Orn/y two-celled ; owlr* numerous, attach il to the axis of the disse- 
piment in two rows. Bmy cylindrical OI quadrate, with blunt angles, or somewhat cordate, glabrous or vilh.il> 
Seeds imbedded in pulp. (Named in honour of Lahillardiere, the naturalist to D'Kntrceasteaux's voyage, and a 
celebrated botanist.) 
longiflora (Lab. Nov. Holl. t. 89) \ glabra, foliis (parvis) linearibus obovato-oblon- 
gisve, floribus elongatis, baccis glabris subgloboso-quadratis.— DC. / 
Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 249. B. ovalis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1719. {Gunn, 169, 169 ? 310?) 
Variat— -foliis anguste linearibus oblongis lineari-oblongis obovato-oblongis ellipticisve ; 
— baccis breviter quadratis 4-lobis v. oblongo-quadratis utrinquc obtusis rotundatis v. basi cordato- 
lobatis purpureis flavescentibusve ; 
—floribus \-l unc. longis virescentibus flavis nurcis staminas H [aicoo] CSBTuh Si cations, sepulis ovato- 
v. subulato-lanceolatis ovatisve, petalis plus minusve contractis. 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island, in thickets, etc., ascending to 3000 feet.— (Fl. Oct. Dec) 
(v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
ately broad, broadly-oblong or square, with rounded ends, or Iobed at the base, gciicralU of a t i 1 1 • ' 
sometimes greenish or yellowish, quite glabrous. Seed* rerj numerous, variable in 
opaque red-brown testa. — Labillardi.rc's figure is very typical of a -mall-lca\ed state of this plant, which abounds hi 
alpine parts of the Colony and probably also on the southern coast, whence ail specimens were obtained; in more 
favoured climates it lias larger leaves, and Mr. (Juan's cultivated -pecinn n- are very luxuriant. 
i (Salisb. Par. Lond. t. 48?) ; glabra v. si rm u-pilosa, foliis lineari-oblongis 
lanceolatis linearibusve, floribus brcviusculis subcampanulatis, petalis acurninatis, baccis cylindraceis glabris. 
— DC. Prodr. i. 345; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1313?; Hook. Bot. Journ. i. 249; Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 275. 
{Gunn,\l.) 
Hab. Northern parts of the Island, and at Georgetown, Launceston, etc., in a stiff clay soil ; Flinders' 
Island, Bass' Straits, Lawrence, etc. — (Fl. Nov.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
Readily distinguished from B. longiflora by the much larger foliage, which, as well as t he young branches, is 
often covered with silky hairs ; by the shorter, more campanulate flowers, with acuminate petals and larger sepals : 
and especially by the cylindrical fruit. — Fruit linear-oblong, cylindrical, glabrous, nearly bhml ti 
when ripe, rather acid. Seeds as in B. longiflora. — This differs from the plate in the ■ Botanical M 
flower being yellow and not purplish : it more resembles that of B. scandens (tab. 801), but in that the fruit is hairy 
3. Billardiera macrantha (Hook, fil.) ; glabra v. ramulis pilosis, foliis (1-2-uncialibus) anguste 
lineari-oblongis, sepalis ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve, petalis elongatis lineari-spathulatis obtusis, ovariis linea- 
ribus pubescentibus. {Gunn, 310, 1028.) 
Hab. Apparently not uncommon ; Black River, Circular Head, Recherche Bay, Acheron River, and 
Macquarrie Harbour, Gunn.— (Fl. Dec.) {v. v.) 
Mr. Gunn has sent this species several times, but never with fruit. Under the Macquarrie Harbour and 
Acheron River specimens he remarks, that it is undoubtedly a distinct species. On those from Recherche Bay 
(with the same number, 1028) he s 
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