PITTOSPORACEiE. 231 



15. Pittosporum terminalioides, Planchon, in Herb. Hook. 



P. foliis coriaceis oblongo-obovatis obtusis basi aitenuatis subtus (prce- 

 sertim junioribus) cum inflorescentia brevissima pauciflora calyce 

 quinquesepalo et ovario tomentoso pubescentibus, pube scepius ferru* 

 ginea; seminibus scabro-rugosis : — caet. fere prcecedentis. 



Pittosporum gldbrum, Putterl. Synops. Pittosp. p. 11, pro parte, non Hook. & Am. 



» 



Var. (3. foliis magnis etiam adultis subtus bracteisque aurato-tomentosis 

 scepius oblongo-oblanceolatis et breviter acuminatis. 



Yar. ? y. foliis parvulis confertis etiam junioribus glabris. 



Hab. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; on the coast southeast of the 

 crater of Lua Pele and Puna. On Mouna Loa at an elevation of 

 7,000 feet. /?. Kaala Mountains, Oahu ; also on mountains of Kauai. 

 y. ? District of Waimea, Hawaii ; and Kaala Mountains, Oahu. (Also 

 collected bj Douglas.) 



Apparently a large shrub, with stout branches; the brauchlets 

 often pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, usually thick and firm, crowded 

 at the end of the branches, oblong-obovate, or somewhat cuneiform, 

 with the apex mostly rounded, obtuse or even retuse, always tapering 

 at the base, conspicuously feather-veined and reticulated, glabrous 

 and shining above, clothed imderneath, at least when young, ivith a 

 tomentose pubescence, which is usually rusty or ferrugineous, from 3 to 

 5 or even 8 inches long, by one to 2, or even 3 in width, on petioles 

 of 6 to 12 lines in length ; its margins entire and revolute. Inflores- 

 cence very short, usually lateral and below the leaves of the season, 

 few-fioioered, tomentose or pubescent; the peduncles only 2 or 3 lines 

 long ; the pedicels very short, sometimes solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves. Calyx pubescent, of 5 wholly distinct sepals. Corolla, stamens, 

 &c, nearly as in the foregoing species, but the ovary is densely tomen- 

 tose or pubescent. Capsule tomentulose or glabrate, two-valved, consi- 

 derably compressed parallel to the valves, many-seeded ; the valves 

 coriaceous, pretty thick, at length flat after dehiscence, and then 



