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orsligMly acuminate, minutely glandulose dentate, 2'- 4' long, petioled. 

 Racemes axillary, about G-flowered, bracted, pedicels 6"- 8" long, 2- 

 bracted below the middle. Sepals 4, rounded or oblong, obtuse or 

 barely pointed, glabrous, with the margin ciliated. Hypogynous disk 

 ^glandular. Stamens many, about 4 times as long as the sepals. Beri:y 

 about the size of a pea, glabrous ; stigma nearly sessile and 4-lobed, 



N"uuaBU Valley, Oahu, and probably In other places. 



Order Vin, PITTOSPORACE^, 



Trees or shrubs, Avith alternate and entire coriaceous leaves, differ- 

 ing from the shrubby Violacese in having no stipules, perfectly regular 

 flowers, and a minute embryo in hard albumen : represented by the 

 chiefly Polynesian genus. 



1. PITTOSPORUM Banks. [Aawa.] 

 Sepals 5. Petals 5, their claws erect and usually cohering Into a 

 tube. Filaments subulate; anthers erect. Ovary sessile or shortly 

 stipitate on a more or less developed torus, imperfectly or nearly per- 

 fectly 2- (rarely 3-5-) celled. Capsule ovate or obovate, often flat- 

 tened. Valves coriaceous or woody, bearing the placentte on their 

 middle. Seeds smooth or reticulated, usually covered with a resin. 

 — Shrubs or trees, usually evergreen. Leaves in some species much 

 clustered at the ends of the branches. Flowers in a terminal corymb, 

 or few or solitary, or often clustered in the axils. 



A considerable genus, chiefly Australian and Polynesian, with a few tropical and sub- 

 tropical African and Asiatic species. 



Flowers in a terminal umbel : calyx large and very woolly, .... 1. P. confertiflorum. 

 Flowers fascicled in the axUs, or below the leaves on the naked 

 branches: peduncles almost none. 

 Calyx and ovary more or less tomentose or pubescent. 



Leaves thick coriaceous: style thrice shorter than the ovary, 



with a two-lobed stigma, 2. P. cauliflorum. 



Leaves thick-coriaceous : style as long as the ovary, with a 



terminal simple stigma, 3. P. terminalioides^ 



Leaves thin-coriaceous : style as long as the ovary, with a 



capitate stigma, i. P. spathulatum, 



Caljrx and ovary (as is the whole plant) glabrous, . . . . 5. P. gldbrum. 

 Flowers on long peduncles and pedicels, 6. P. acuminatum. 



\. P. CONFERTIFLORUM Gray. (Emim. JVo. 17.) Tree 20° high. 

 Branches stout, leafy, woolly when young. Leaves coriaceous, crowded 

 obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse or short acuminate, 3'- 7' long, 1'- 

 2j' wide, the young ones woolly on both sides, the older ones very 

 glabrous and shining above, densely tomentose beneath ; margins revo- 

 lute. Petiole margined, 1' or less long. Flowers numerous and 



