50 Y. piTTOSPOEEAE. [Pittosporum. 



9. P. Kirkii, Hook. f. ex T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z.I, ii. (1869) 92. A 

 glabrous loosely-branched shrub, 3ft.-15ft. high. Branches, stout, ascending. 

 Bark reddish-purple. Leaves erect, crowded or whorled, narrow-linear, obovate, 

 acute or obtuse, 2in.-5in. long, narrowed into short broad petioles, excessively 

 coriaceous. Flowers in terminal 3-7-flowered umbels. Sepals lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate^ slightly exceeding the corolla-tube. Petals narrow-ligulate, acuminate, the 

 sharply-recurved limb longer than its tube. Styles very short; stigma capi- 

 tate, 2-lobed. Fruiting peduncles stout, erect. Capsules elliptic, l4in. long, 

 2- rarely 3-valved, glabrous, compressed, cuspidate. — Trans. N.Z.T. iv. (1872) 

 26i. 



NOETII Island: Auckland: Whangape North. Kauaeoruruwahine fore.sts, Whangape North, 

 T. K. Bay of Islands, A. Cunningham! Whangarei, &o., Buchanan. Hirakimata Range, Great 

 Barrier Island ; Great Omaha and Gape Colville Peninsula, T. K. Ticirangi, Gheeseman. Thames 

 Goldfield, J". W. Ball! Taranaki : Mount Egmont ranges, Cheeseman! Ascends to nearly 3,000ft. 

 Dec, Jan. 



The most striking and beautiful of the New Zealand species. North of Hokianga epiphytal 

 specimens may be seen several yards in diameter. 



10. p. umbellatum, Banks and Sol. in Gaertn. Fruet. i. 286, t. 59. A 

 shrub or small tree, 10ft. to 20ft. high, glabrous except the young shoots, 

 leaves, peduncles, and sepals, which are more or less silky. Branches sometimes 

 whorled. Leaves coriaceous, broadly lanceolate, oblong, elliptic-oblong or obo- 

 vate-oblong, 2in.— 1-in. long, narrowed into slender petioles, obtuse or acute. 

 Flowers in many-flowered terminal umbels. Peduncles filiform. Sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate. Petals slightly recurved. Fruiting peduncles slender, decurved. 

 Capsule tetragonous, 2-valved ; valves 2-lobed, woody. — DC, Prod. i. 347; A. 

 Cunn., Precurs. n. 613; Putterl. Syn. Pittosp. 12; Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 24, and 

 Handbk. 21. 



NORTH Island : North Cape to Poverty Bay. Littoral. Oct., Nov. 



Var. cordatum, T. Kirk, Trans. N.Z.I, iv. 264. Leaves linear-obovate or obovate-spathu- 

 late, acute, narrowed into the petiole. Capsules rounded, cordate-acuminate ; valves not lobed. 

 Flowers not seen. Haratoanga, Great Barrier Island. Easily distinguished from the type by the 

 narrow leaves and rounded capsules. 



11. P. patulum, Hook.f., Handbk. N.Z. Fl. 19. A glabrous bush or 

 erect shrub, 3ft.— 15ft. high. Branchlets stout. Leaves in the voung state 

 lin.-2in. long, J^in.-Jin. broad, closely pinnati-lobed or -fid, gradually passing 

 into the narrow linear-oblong serrate creuate or quite entire coriaceous mature 

 state, narrowed into very short petioles, shining. Flowers in 4-6-flowered ter- 

 minal umbels. Sepals and petals not seen. Peduncles slender, jin. long, spread- 

 ing or decurved in fruit. Capsules about \m. in diameter, globose, compressed, 

 2-valved, finely granulated. 



SOUTH Island: Nelson: Wairau Mountains, Sinclair, 5,000ft. Lake Guyou, Travers ! 

 Glacier Gully, Spencer Mountains, T. K. I 2,800ft. A very distinct species, and, so far as known' 

 remarkably local. 



12. P. virgatum, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z.I, iv. (1871) 264. A slender 

 tree, 20ft.-25ft. high. Bark black. Young shoots, leaves, peduncles, and 

 sepals clothed with ferruginous pubescence. Leaves linear-lanceolate or elliptic- 



