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tomentose underneath with fulvous wool, which is more or less deci- 

 duous with age, 3 or 4 inches in length, lh to 2 inches wide towards 

 the apex, strongly and copiously feather-veined, the upper surface 

 finely bullate-reticulated ; the margins entire and revolute. Flowers 

 very numerous and crowded in a dense, terminal and nearly sessile 

 umbel, large for the genus. Pedicels half an inch long, thick, very 

 woolly, as are the bracts, &c. Calyx very woolly externally; the sepals 

 5, distinct, orbicular-ovate, obtuse, imbricated, 3 lines long. Corolla 

 glabrous, probably white (but the colour not recorded) ; the petals of 

 a thickish texture, connivent, and above somewhat cohering, into a tube 

 of 5 or 6 lines in length, their broadly ovate summits 3 or 4 lines 

 long, forming a spreading limb, imbricated or sometimes convolute in 

 aestivation. Stamens nearly as long as tube of the corolla : filaments 

 filiform-subulate : anthers linear-sagittate, apiculate. Pistil 6 lines 

 long. Ovary sessile, oblong, tomentose, incompletely two-celled ; the 

 cells many-ovuled. Style thick, glabrous, about as long as the ovary, 

 terminated by a truncate undivided stigma. Capside globular-ovoid, 

 somewhat flattened parallel with the valves, tomentose, becoming gla- 

 brate with age, two-celled, two-valved, many-seeded; the valves thick 

 and woody, tubercular-iorinkled and rough externally, nearly an inch 

 in length and breadth. Seeds dark purple, compressed and angled, 

 closely packed in two rows in each cell; the testa dull, minutely 

 tuberculate-m70.se : funiculi scarcely any. 



The flowers of this remarkable species are among the largest of the 

 genus : they are said to be odorous. If of a good colour, the species 

 would be a very desirable one in cultivation. 



Plate 19. — Pittosporum confertiflorum : in flower and in fruit, of 

 the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower, with its pedicel and bract, of the 

 natural size. 2. Diagram of a flower. 3. Corolla, detached and laid 

 open, enlarged. 4. Stamens and pistil, equally enlarged. 5. Pistil, 

 transversely divided, more enlarged. 6. Longitudinal section of the 

 same. 7. An ovule, more magnified. 8. A valve of the capsule, of 

 the natural size; inside view, showing the seeds, &c. 9. Transverse 

 section of a dehiscent capsule. 10. A seed, enlarged. 11. Vertical 

 section of the same, showing the minute embryo in the base of the 

 albumen. 12. Seed of Pittosporum glabrum, enlarged. 13. Seed of 

 Pittosporum terminalioides, equally enlarged. 



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