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one-flowered, an inch long, ticice the length of the petioles. Capsule 

 smooth or nearly so, globular, but somewhat quadrangular, having 

 rather acute angles at the dehiscent sutures, the placental sutures 

 obtuse; the valves thick and woody, 9 lines in length and breadth, 

 many-seeded. Seeds globular, a line and a half in diameter; the testa 

 very smooth, black and shining. 



This species bears more resemblance to the preceding than to any 

 other ; from which it is abundantly distinguished by its smaller and 

 rounded leaves (that may be likened to those of P. Tobira, although 

 larger and not so cuneate), and solitary, longer peduncles. It should 

 be compared with P. uniflorum of Putterlick, which is briefly cha- 

 racterized from a cultivated specimen, of uncertain origin. 



Plate 17, B. — Pittosporum tobiroides: in fruit. Fig. 1. Trans- 

 verse section of a capsule. 2. A seed, enlarged. 3. Vertical section 

 of the same. 



12. Pittosporum Pjckeringii, Sp. Nov. 



P. glabrum; foliis coriaceis oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque 

 acuminatis margine undulatis ; pedancidis terminalibus in umbellam 

 digestis gracilibus apice umbellatim plurifloris ; calyce abbreviato 

 quinquefido; petalis discretis ; ovario ovoideo quinqueloculari basi 

 attenuato substipitato, loculis sexovulatis ; stylo brevissimo, 



Hab. Feejee Islands. (In flower only.) 



Apparently a small tree, entirely glabrous, except the inflorescence, 

 which is minutely pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, alternate, but mostly 

 crowded as it were in whorls at intervals on the flowering branches, 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, from 4 to 6 inches 

 in length, and li to 2 inches in width, on petioles of about an inch 

 in length, smooth and of the same hue both sides, rather conspi- 

 cuously feather-veined, the margins undulate, often as if repand-cre- 

 nulate. Inflorescence terminal: peduncles 6 or 7 in number, umbellate, 

 subtended by as many leaves of the ultimate false whorl, slender, 

 unequal, from one to 2 inches in length, naked, umbellaiely 3-7 '-flowered 



