78 PITTOSPORER. [ Pittosporum. 
centas 1-3, bearing 2 or more ovules. Stigmas broad, notched. 
Berry 1-2 seeded, corticate, large.—Trees, with simple leaves and 
rather small racemose 
1. R. cxsia, Bl—An evergreen tree (20—25 4+ 8—15 + 2—3), 
the young shoots appressed brown-pubescent ; leaves from oblong to 
broad-oblong, obtuse at base, on a slightly appressed hispid petiole 
1-14 in. long, cuspidate, 5-6 in. long, beneath glaucescent and 
sparingly appressed brownish pubescent along the nerves; flowers 
small, on astrong pedicel, forming elongate axillary tawny tomentose 
racemes, those of the males up to a foot long, those of the females 
much shorter; fruits globose, the size of a cherry or a little larger, 
lenticellate-roughish, grey, usually 2-seeded. 
Has.—Rather frequent in the tropical forests of South Andaman. 
PITTOSPOREA. 
Flowers usuall PS ng ae Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 
ous, imbricate. Torus 
seeded umen on copious. bryo small, radicle next the hilum.— 
Erect trees or shrubs, with alternate or almost whorled simple leaves. 
Stipules none, Flowers terminal or axi ary. 
PITTOSPORUM, ‘Baaks, 
Sepals free or connate at base. Petals erect. Stamens 5, erect. 
Ovary sessile or = stalked, incompletely 2-3-celled, with 2 or 
more ovules on placenta. ‘Capsule woody, l-celled, 2-or rarely 
3-valyed. “pees te or _. n pulp. —Trees or shrubs, 
es simple leaves and small flow 
eum, Ait. ; He ior: Fl. i, 199.—A spreading 
1. P. ferrugine 
3 much branched tree, young parts rusty pubescent ; leaves ens 
to oblong-lanceolate, 24-4 in. long, acute or acuminate, while 
young rusty pubescent, soon glabrescent ; flowers } in. long, green- 
ish-white, in corymb-like terminal racemes ; ovary rusty-tomentose ; 
capsule 2-valved, rough, about 4-seeded. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
: POLYGALEA, 
Flowers irregular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, unequal, the 
inner ones (wings) often aide: imbricate. Petals 5 or 3, di. 
tinct, unequal, the lower one usually k soars Stamens 8, 
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