Pittosporea^ flora OF tasmama. 
The Bursaria- are all extratropieal Australian plains of which only three or four specie- an known, all highly 
polymorphous.— Small undershrubs, shrubs, or small trees, spinous or unarmed. Isares coriaceous, variable. 
Flowers corymbose. Sepals, petal; ami ttammt •">, all spreading. Oaory incompletely bilocular ; ov ■ 
on the dissepiments. Capsule obcordate, compressed, dehiscing at the apex. Seeds few. (Named from bursa, a 
pouch; in allusion to the form of the capsules.) 
1. Bursaria spinosa (Cav. Ic. iv. t. 350); foliis late obovatis lanreolalis limari-obovatis lineari- 
elongatisve apice bilobis retusis obtusis rotundatisve acutis aeuimnatisvc subtus plus minus glauce.scentibus, 
floribus peduneulatis subsolitariis fasciculatis v. varie in corymbos paniculasve contractos effusosvc dispositis, 
sepalis parvis caducissirnis, capsulis transverse oblongis obcordatisve apice truncato retuso.- 
347 ; Hook. Bot. Journ. i. 249, Comjp. Bot. Mag. i. 275. Itea ipUHM :;; 1. C^tOla 
spinosa, Sjjreng. Nov. Pror. 15 ? {fid. PC.) (Gunn, 15.) 
Hab. Throughout the Island, abundant, Cunningham, etc. — (Fl. Nov. Jan.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. Extratropieal Eastern and Southern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
An extremely abundant shrub or small tree, attaining 30-40 feet in height, with a trunk three feet in circum- 
ference, altering in habit, foliage, and inlloroeence as it grows older, ami altogether polymorphous. 
or with short lateral branches becoming metamorphosed into pungent spines; brand 
Leaves i-l| inch long, narrow or broad, linear, or oblong, or obovate, or lanceolate, broadest at the middle or 
towards the apex, which is rounded, entire, bilid, cmarginatc, acute or acuminate, mid* r 
broadly notched or truncate apex. Setdt few, enveloped in I \ iseid -um. — It is difficult to coneei\ 
morphous plant than this. 
2. Bursaria procumbens (Putterlieli, Synops. Pittosp. p. 19); pusilla, procmnbens, subherbneea, 
ramis prostratis ascendentibusve pubescentibus, foliis linearibna lineari-oblongisre obtusis acutis mucrona- 
tis aristatisve puberulis v. glabratis integerrimis v. apice lobatis dentatisve plants v. marginibus revolutis, 
floribus versus apices ramulorum solitariis fasciculatisve, pedicellis folio fequilongis brevioribusve rarius 
longioribus, sepalis petalis |-i brevioribus, capsulis rotundato-subquadratis polyspermis, seminibus gTOAM 
rugoso-tuberculatis. — Pittosporum procumbens et P. nanum, Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. -11 6 : 
Bot. ii. 409. Rhytidosporum procumbens et Stuartianum, F. Miiller, Cat. Plant. Victoria. (Gunn, 
151, 617.) 
Hab. Common on sandy plains throughout the Island. — (Fl. Oct. Dec.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. New South "Wales and South-eastern Australia. 
A common and variable little weedy shrubby-stemmed plant, forming spreading procumbent patch. 
3-8 inches long, closely covered with leaves. Variable in size, habit, and foliage. — Stems and foliage more or less 
pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, curved, spreading or secund, i-| inch long, linear or linear-oblong, blunt, acute. 
acuminate or aristate, and almost pungent, quite entire, or lobed, or trifid towards the apex. / 
solitary, towards the ends of the branches, w hit. or pink. ) inch across. Sepals subulate, half as long 
or elliptic-lanceolate petals. Ovary oblong, two-celled, w ith tw o rows f axile ovules in each cell. Capsule rounded, 
membranous, transversely wrinkled, turgid, obscurely four-lobed, two-celled, with six to eight oblong-reuiform seed, 
in each cell ; testa rather coriaceous and spongy, tubercled and rugose. — F. Miiller has founded a genus on the 
character of the seeds of this little plant ; but though so different in habit from B. spinosa, it appears to me clearly a 
convener of that plant. The leaves are both entire and lobed and toothed on the same specimen, and I do not 
find any other character but the more toothed leaves, whereby to distinguish the Rhjtidosporum Stuartianum of F. 
Miiller. It does not appear to me that the Btnaria dwsmoides, Putterlieh, is the same species, as suggested by 
Walpers (Kepert. i. 255, sub Pittosporum nanum). 
