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width : they are either scattered or falsely whorled, as is common in 

 the genus. Flowers terminal, or in the axils of the whorled leaves 

 which terminate the flowering branches, in one or more small and 

 sessile umbels or fascicles, which are shorter than the petioles. Pedi- 

 cels 2 or 3 lines long, with subulate bracts at their base. Calyx of 

 five ovate or oblong distinct sepals, a line and a half long. Corolla 

 half an inch long; the petals coalescent above the middle, forming a 

 tube, their free and obtuse summits spreading. Filaments subulate, 

 more than twice the length of the sagittate mucronulate anthers. 

 Ovary not stipitate, nor contracted at the base, linear-oblong, minutely 

 tomentose, pointed with the rather slender style (11 lines long) : stigma 

 two-lobed. Ovules very numerous on the two placentae, sessile. 

 Capsule oblong, Ik inches in length, very thick and woody, minutely 

 tomentose when young, and then more or less two-edged or crested, 

 the surface excessively tuberculate-rugose or warty, two-valved, many- 

 seeded. Seeds compressed vertically, 2 h to 3 lines in diameter, with a 

 pale and nearly smooth testa, not shining, almost destitute of funiculi. 



Plate 18. — Pittosporum rhytidocarpum. Fig. 1. Branch, with 

 flowers and young fruit. 2. Another form, with young fruit. 3. A 

 large-leaved form, with dehiscent capsules. 4. A flower, enlarged. 

 5. The connected petals displayed. 6. A stamen, seen from the out- 

 side. 7. The same, seen from within. 8. Pistil, with a stamen and 

 the receptacle. 9. Transverse section of the ovary. 10. Pistil, with 

 the ovary longitudinally divided. 11. Transverse section of a cap- 

 sule. 12. A seed. 13. The same, divided, to show the embryo, &c. 

 — All the analyses enlarged, except Fig. 11. 



* * * * Sandwicensia. 



14. Pittosporum glabrum, Hook. & Am. 



P. undique glabrum; foliis tenuiter coriaceis laevibus obovato-oblongis 

 oblanceolatisve basi attenuates apice obtusis vel subacuminatis ; pedun* 

 cults terminalibus nunc lateralibus subracemoso-paucifloris ; calyce 

 qidnquepartito ovario pedicellisque glaberrimis; capsula Icevi subglo- 

 bosa compressiuscula bivalvi polysperma, valvis coriaceis; semimbus 

 atropurpureis lo3vibus. 



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