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ORDER XLVII. PITTOSPORACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, with simple, alternate, exstipulate leaves : 
sepals 5, deciduous, distinct or partially cohering, imbricate in 
restivation: petals 5, hypogynous, imbricate in eestivation : sta- 
mens 5, distinct, alternate with the petals: ovary solitary, 2- 
5-celled: style 1: stigma 2-5-lobed: fruit baccate or capsular: 
cells many-seeded, usually incomplete: seeds covered witha 
glutinous pulp or with an aril: albumen fleshy. 
GENUS I. PITTOSPORUM. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. From Pitte, resin, and Sporos, a seed. The seeds are 
covered with resinous pulp. 
Gen. Cuar. Shrubs with permanent entire leaves: sepals and 
petals 5: the claws of the petals forming atube: capsule 2~3- 
valved, 1-celled. 
(1) P. rroripunvum. (W.§& A.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 154. 
_ Syn. Celastrus verticellata, Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 624.—Senacia 
Nepaulensis, Dec. prod. I. p. 347.—P. Zeylanicum, R. W, 
_ Spec. Cuar, Small tree: leaves elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous : 
margins waved: racemes terminal, aggregated, many-ftowered : 
sepals much shorter than the corolla, concave, ciliated at the apex : 
petals linear: ovary hairy : stigmas 2-lobed: ovules 4—6 in each 
nes capsule 2-valved, compressed, 3—4-seeded: flowers small, 
whitish. 
Peninsula. Columala. Flowering from January to June. 
(2) P. Nettenerrense.: (W. & 4.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 154. 
Engrav. Wight’s Ill. I. t. 70. 
_ Spzc. Cuar. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous: racemes ter- 
minal, 2-3 together, few-flowered: sepals much shorter than the 
corolla, lanceolate, flat, slightly ciliated: petals linear: ovary hairy: 
stigma 2-lobed: ovules 4-6 in each cell: capsule compressed, 2- 
valved, 4~6-seeded: valves thick ; flowers yellowish-green. 
Neilgherries. 
