Pittosporum.'] V. PITTOSPOEEAE. 49 



6. P. rigidum, Hook. /., Fl. N.Z. i. 22, 1. 10. A rigid depressed much- 

 braached shrub, with short stout tortuous intricate spreading branches, or rarely 

 with slender erect branches, 5ft.-6ft. high. Leaves iin.-|in. long, often fas- 

 cicled, submembranous or coriaceous, with recurved margins, shortly petioled, 

 oblong, narrow-obovate or cuneate, entire or sinuate, dentate or deeply lobed 

 both in the young and mature states, usually glabrous. Flowers solitary, axil- 

 lary or terminating arrested branchlets, sessile or on very short peduncles, cam- 

 panulate. Sepals very short, narrow-ovate, acute. Ovary hirsute. Capsule 

 small, broadly ovoid, acute, 2-valved, pilose when young. — Handbk. 20. 



NORTH Island: mountains above Waikare Moana, and Ruahine Range, Colenso. Tararua 

 Range, Arnold I H. Travels ! SOUTH Island : Mount Stokes, Macmahon I Matai Creek, F. H. 

 Spencer ! Dun Mountain Range, Cheeseman. Lake Guyon, Travers I Lake Grasmere, T. K. 

 Acheron Island, Dusky Bay, Hector and Buchanan. Ascends to fully 3,000ft., but is rare at low 

 levels. Nov., Deo. 



In the Tararua specimens the young shoots and leaves are clothed with ferruginous pubes- 

 cence. 



7. P. pimeleoides, R. Cunn. in A. Cunn. Precurs. n. 618. A slender 

 much-branched shrub, 1ft.— 5ft. high. Branchlets almost filiform, sparingly 

 pilose in the young state. Leaves usually crowded or verticillate, ascending 

 patent or recurved, |in.— l^in. long, j^in.— jin. broad, membranous, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse or acute, rarely denticulate. Flowers in few-flowered terminal 

 umbels or solitary. Peduncles capillary, loosely pilose. Sepals subulate-acumi- 

 nate. Petals linear-acuminate, tips spreading. Ovary silky. Capsule erect, 

 ovoid-acuminate, 2-valved ; style recurved. — P. pimeleoides, R. Cunn., Hook, f., 

 Fl. N.Z. i. 24, and Handbk. 21. 



Var. reflexum. Leaves usually crowded, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, ^jin.-Jin. broad. — 

 P. pimelioides, R. Cunn. in A. Ounn. Precurs. n. 617. P. radicans, R. Cunn. I.e. n. 617. P. pime- 

 lioides var. reflexum, Hook, f., PI. N.Z. i. 25. P. reflexum, Hook, f., Handbk. 19. P. Oilliesianum, 

 T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z.I, i. (1868) 143. P. crenulatum. Putt. Synop. Pittosp. 15. 



NORTH Island : rare and local. Auckland: Mongonui, &c., T. K. Whangaroa, B. Cunning- 

 ham I Kawakawa River, Bay of Islands, Hooker f. Both forms usually intermixed. March. 



A plant which must probably be referred here grows with the ordinary forms at the Bay of 

 Islands, but is characterized by elliptic leaves, rounded at the apex, and narrowed below into a 

 slender petiole. Flowers and fruit not seen. 



8. P. COrnifolium, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. t. 3161, Precurs. n. 616. 

 Shrub, 2ft.— 4ft. high, glabrous except the young leaves and peduncles, which ai-e 

 silky- pubescent. Branches forked or verticillate. Leaves verticillate, very 

 shortly petioled, coriaceous, narrow-obovate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute, l^in.- 

 22in. long. Flowers often unisexual, in 3— 4-flowered terminal umbels ; umbels 

 solitary or fascicled. Peduncles filiform, drooping. Sepals linear, subulate, 

 exceeding the corolla-tube, acuminate. Petals saccate at the base, spreading at 

 the tips, linear -acuminate. Capsule erect, broadly obovoid, 3-lobed and valved ; 

 valves orange inside. Seeds large. — Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 23, and Handbk. 21 ; 

 A. Grray^ Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. 223. Pittosporoides verticillata, Banks and 

 Sol. MSS. 



NORTH Island : most plentiful on the eastern side. Epiphytal. Ascends to 2,500ft. 

 SOUTH Island: Pelorus Sound and Titi Island, /. iJwWani .' Kara. Aug., Sept. 



An elegant species, growing amongst the masses of Astelia, &o., common on rocks or trees in 

 the northern forests. Never truly terrestrial. 



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