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showy flowers. It is of somewhat erect growth, with stout 

 branches and plenty of shoots. Propagated from seed, 

 which it ripens abundantly in this country. 



P. nepalensis aueea (1879) has the bark striped yellow 

 and green. 



Pittosporum (Pittosporeae). 



Pittospobtjm Tobiea. — Japan, 1804. This forms a 

 neat, evergreen shrub, with deep-green, leathery leaves, 

 and clusters of white, fragrant flowers, each about an inch 

 in diameter. It is hardy in the more favoured parts of 

 the South and West of England, where it makes a reliable 

 seaside shrub. 



P. undulattjm, from Australia (1789), is also hardy 

 against a wall, but cannot be depended upon generally. 

 It is a neat shrub, with waxy leaves that are rendered 

 conspicuous by the dark midribs and white flowers. They 

 grow well in any good garden soil. 



Plagianthus (Malvaceae). 



Plagianthus Lampenii. — Van Dieman's Land, 1833. 

 This is about equally hardy with P. Lyalli, and produces 

 a great abundance of sweetly-scented pale-yellow flowers. 



P. Lyalli, a native of New Zealand (1871), and a 

 member of the Mallow family, is a free-flowering and 

 beautiful, shrub, but one that cannot be recommended 

 for general planting in this country. At Kew it does well 

 and flowers freely on an east wall. The flowers are snow- 

 white, with golden-yellow anthers, and produced on the 

 ends of the last season's branchlets during June and July. 

 The flower-stalks, being fully 2 inches long, give to the 

 flowers a very graceful appearance. In this country the 

 leaves are frequently retained till spring. 



P. pulchellos (syn Sida pidchetta).— -Australia and 



