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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



Fig. 24. — Tobira Pittosporum. 



Fig. 25. — Pittosporum. 



Fig. 26. — Cape Pittosporum. 



flowers are insignificant; the seeds 

 are peculiar in that they are con- 

 cave on one side and convex on 

 the other. [Seeds and divisions.] 



PitWsporum. The Pittospo- 



RUMS are evergreen trees or shruhs 



of warm regions. The leaves are 



alternate but clustered in an ap- ^«'- 27.-Karo Pittosporum. 



parent whorl at the ends of the branches ; the margins are in most species 



entire. The regular 5-parted flowers form a cluster above the whorl of 



