102 ; The leading Physiognomic Plants and their Growth-forms. 
The flowers are hermaphrodite, white, arranged in broad panicles shorter 
than the leaves. Produced in profusion, they render the tree a striking object 
during summer. The capsule is globose, about the size of a small pea, and 
when ripe, black and shining; it remains on the tree for about a year, and 
flowers and fruit may be present at the same time. 
! The genus is monotypic and endemic. 
2. Pittosporum tenuifolium (Pittosporac.) Kohuhu, Powhiwhi. 
P. tenuifolium is a small tree 4.5—g m high with a slender trunk rarely 
more than 30 cm in diam. covered with dark-coloured bark and having a 
rounded head of thin branches and twigs bearing numerous more or less oblong 
een leaves 2.5—6 cm long, but which vary much in shape and size in different 
individuals. 
The flowers are hermaphrodite, axillary, about ı cm long, solitary or oc- 
casionally fascicled, chocolate-coloured, and are succeeded by woody, ovate 
cap$ules 1.5 cm long, which finally open by three valves, exposing the black 
seeds embedded in a transparent glutinous substance. 
3. Pittosporum eugenioides A. Cunn. (Pittosporac.) Tarata, 
Lemonwood, Turpentine tree. 
2 eugenioides is an exceedingly handsome evergreen tree, 6—8 m high, | 
having a close round head of slender branches and dark-coloured branchlets 
bearing extremely glossy, bright-green, elliptical, subcoriaceous leaves, 5—ıo cm 
long. The tlowers are more or less dioecious, yellow, sweet-scented and ar, 
 ranged in compound umbels, which are conspicuous when in full bloom. The 
fruits are small, similar to those of the Söig in 1. general, and require about 
a Aa to attain maturity. 
"The species is wanting in Stewart deln; and rare or absent over wide 
areas in the W. ‚of the South Island. 
(A “ce aa das f. Blacacarpacı, Makomako 
 Wineberry. 
The wineben is. an evergreen to deciduous shrub or small: tr 
. moist districts ataining, even in. the ep a length of 20 cm and a 
e of 137 cm. EN & 
The dowers are eier, small rose-coloured, Swectscentee and dar 
