PLATE CLl. 



PITTOSPORUM CORIACEUM. 



TJilck-leaved Pittolporiun. 



CLASS y. ORDER L 

 PEIsTANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Five Chives. One Pomtal. 



GEXERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthiutn pentaphyllum, inferum, 



dcciduum. 

 Corolla. Petala quinque; ungues concavi, in 



tubum uiceolatum conniventes; laminae 



ovato-oblongae, patentes. 

 Stamina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, recep- 



taculo inlerta. Antherae fagittalx, eredae, 



filamentis dorfo affixae. 

 PiSTiLLUM. Germen ovatum, fuperum, com- 



preflum. Stylus brevilUmus, cylindricus. 



Stigma capital um, planum. 

 Pericarpium. Bacca fubglobola, 2-5 locularis, 



2-5 valvis ; loculanienlis pulpa refinofa fca- 



tentibus ; diffepimenta valvulis contraria. 

 Semina tria feu quatuor, angulata, oblonga, ob- 



tufa, offea. 



Empalement. Cup five-leaved, beneathj and 

 falling off. 



Blossom. Five petals ; claws concave, clofing 

 into a tube pitcher-fliaped ; the borders ob- 

 long egg fliaped, I'prcading. 



Chives. Threads five, awl-fliaped, inferted into 

 the receptacle. Tips arrow lliapcd, up- 

 right, fixed by the back to the threads. 



Point A L. Seed-bud eggfliaped, above, flat- 

 tened. Shaft very ihort, cylindrical. Sum- 

 mit headed, flat. 



Seed vessel. A roundifli berry 2-5 cells, 2-5 

 valves ; the cells filled with a refinous pulp ; 

 partitions contrary to the valves. 



Seeds, three or four, angulated, oblong, ob- 

 tufe, and bony. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Pittofporum foliis ovalibus, obtufis, glaberrimis, 

 coriaceis, integerrimis. 



Pittofporum with oval leaves, blunt ended, 

 very fmooth, leathery, and quite entire. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The Empalement. 



2. A Petal of the Blolfom. 



3. The Chives and Pointal. 



4. The Pointal leparated from the Chives. 



5. A Berry of the fize when ripe. 



About the year 1/63, this plant was firft raifed in Britain, from feeds which had been received from 

 the Ifland of Madeira, by jNIelfrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammcrfmith. It forms one of the moft deco- 

 rative and confpicuous plants, either in the Confervator}', or Green-houfe; and if encouraged in its 

 growth, by being planted in the border of the one ; or kept in rich earth, in a large pot in the other, 

 will attain the height of from 6 to 8 feet. The finefl fpecimen we believe, in England, of this plant 

 is to be found in the elegant Confervatory of the Right Honourable Lord R. Spencer, Woolbedding, 

 Suffex. The flowers, which grow in clullers from the ends of the branches in May, have the flavour 

 ofJafmine; but are rather trantitory. It is propagated but flowly and with difficulty, as it docs not 

 perfect its feeds with us, and it is not to be incieafed by laying: the only method is cuttings, wliicli 

 fliould be taken whilti very young and tender from the plant, about April, and put from 6" to b 

 in a pot, fixed very tight, in f^iffifh loam ; they must remain under a hand-glats on a tliady border till 

 Autumn, when they may be removed into the bot-houfe and plunged into the bark bed, where 

 they will begin to grow the enl'uing fpring. 



