70 XII. PITTOSPOEE^. [Pittospomm. 



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valves rough outside. Seeds numerous, red or brown.— DC. Prod. i. 346 ; Bot. 

 Reg. t. 186 ; F. v. M. PI. Vict. i. 224 ; P. fidvum, Budge in Trans. Linn. Soe. x. 

 298.' t'. 20 ; DC. I.e. ; Sweet, Fl. Austral, t. 25 ; P. tomentomm, Bonpl. Jard. 

 Malm. 56 ' t. 24 ; Sweet, Fl. Austral, t. 33 ; DC. I.e. ; P. Jdrstitum, Link, 

 according to Putterl. 'Syn. Pittosp. 9. 



Hab.: Moreton Bay, Brisbane Eiver, and other southern parts. 



6. P. venulosum (leaves beautifully veined), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 186. A 

 small tree of about 30ft.; the ultimate branchlets almost verticillate, slightly 

 ferruginous - tomentose. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 almost whorled, 2 to 4in. long, | to l^in. broad, the reticulations close and deep- 

 coloured, margins thickened, tapering to the petioles. Flowers in a terminal 

 corymbose panicle. Capsule globose-pyriform, 2 rarely 3-valved, slightly com- 

 pressed, 8 to 10 lines long, yellow inside. Seeds 1 to 1^ line long. 



Hab.: Ranges of the tropical coast," as Bookingham Bay, &c. 



7. P. ferrugineum (shoots rusty-tomentose), Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 27 ; 



Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 112. A tree, flowering sometimes as a shrub, but attaining 

 a height of 50 to 60ft., the young shoots thickly clothed with a loose rusty 

 tomentum which soon wears off. Leaves from obovate or ovate, and obtuse or 

 scarcely acuminate, to oblong or almost lanceolate, acuminate, and 3 to 4in. long, 

 quite entire, narrowed into a petiole of f to fin., rusty-tomentose on both sides 

 whsn very young, but glabrous above, or on both sides when full grown. 

 Peduncles terminal, usually clustered several together above the last leaves, each 

 one bearing a cluster or umbel of rather small flowers, but sometimes the 

 common peduncle grows out and the inflorescence becomes a thyrsoid or 

 pyramidal panicle, not a corymb, as in P. melanospermum. Sepals lanceolate or 

 lanceolate-subulate. Petals narrow, about 3 lines long, spreading only above the 

 middle. Ovary villous, with 12 to 16 ovules to each placenta. Capsule sessile, 

 nearly globular, scarcely 4 lines broad, ripening usually 3 or 4 black seeds.^DC. 

 Prod. i. 346 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2075 ; P. tinifoUum flinifoliwn by an error of the 

 press), A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, iv. 109 ; P. omtifoliwm, F. v. M, 

 Fragm. ii. 78. 



Hab.: Common in the tropical parts. 



Wood light grey, close in grain and tough. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No: 10. 



Extends over the Malayan peninsula and adjoining islands and the Philippines. The Austra- 

 lian specimens have rather larger flowers and narrower-pointed sepals than the common Malayan 

 form ; but in this respect the Malacca specimens are very variable, some of them precisely 

 resembling some of the Australian ones. 



8. P. Wingii (after the editor of Southern Science Record), F. v. M. in So. 

 Sc. Rec, March, 1885. Leaves of almost herbaceous texture, on very short stalks, 

 ovate or elongate-lanceolate, acuminate, hardly or slightly recurved at the margin, 

 beneath prominently penninerved and as well as the branchlets brownish silky- 

 tomentose ; corymb umbelliform, solitary short-stalked or almost sessile ; sepals 

 velvet-hairy, narrow-lanceolate, gradually pointed ; corolla about one-third longer 

 than the calyx, its tube widened upwards, shorter than the bluntish and not 

 much-spreading lobes ; anthers fully half as long as the filaments, many times 

 longer than broad ; ovary brownish -silky ; capsules not large, rather turgid, 

 almost globular or somewhat depressed, velvet-hairy ; valves 2, hard ; funicles 

 thick and very short. Seeds several, from garnet colour turning brown-black, 

 somewhat viscid. 



Hab.: Bellenden Ker and other high ranges of the tropical parts of the colony. 



9. P. rubiginosum (foliage reddish-coloured), A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hint 

 ner. 1, iv. '108; Benth. Fl. Awtr. i. 112. A sparingly branched shrub; the 

 branchlets, petioles, and inflorescence densely clothed with a rust- coloured 

 tomentum, consisting of much more spreading hairs than in P. ferruginmm. 



