1-2* 
7. Rtparosa caesta, Bl. Bijdr. 600 ; Byparia, Fl. Javao (praef. VTTT). 
A small tree, the branchlets and inflorescence ferrugineotis-silky. Leaves 
coriaceous, oblong, shortly acuminate, the baso slightly narrowed ; 
upper surface shining; lower pale, rather densely adpressed-sericeous ; 
nerves 5 to 6 pairs, ascending ■ length 6 to 9 in. ; breadth 2 to 3 in. ; 
petiole 1-25 in., stout, thickened in its upper fourth. Racemes solitary, 
Bupra-axillary, the female longer than the leaves. Male flowers ; sepals and 
petals 4, tomentose, the latter with a small basal hairy scale. Staminal 
tube short, glabrous ; anthers 4, broadly ovate, reflexod. Fruit crowned 
by the 2 shortly-stalked fleshy radiating reniform cmarginate stigmas* 
globose, ferruginous-tomentose, 5 to 7 in. diam. Hassk. PI. Javan. 
Rar. 267 i Baillon Euphorb. 339. Miq. PL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 361. 
DO. Prod. XV, 2 p. 1260. Kurz in Jomm. Bot. 1873, p. 233. 
Java, Blumo. Sumatra; Teysmann, Forbes, at an elevation of 3,500 
feet. 
Blumo describes the lower surfaces of the leaves aa M ton niter 
strigosis " ; but the hairs, although adpressed, are not stiff but silky. 
This is the ouly species in which the hah'B on the lower surface of the 
leaves are at all conspicuous. The leaves of I ho Andaman plant referred 
to R, eaesia by Kurz arc nearly glabrous beneath. 
Order X. PITTOSPORE^. 
Treos or shrubs. Leaves alternate or subverticillato, quite entire 
(very rarely toothed) ; exstipulate. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, 
terminal or axillary, Sepah 5, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, imbri- 
cate. Torus small. Statnens 5, opposite the sepals ; anthers versatile. 
Ovary 1-celled, with 2-5 parietal placentas, or 2-5-cellcd by the pro- 
jection of the placentas; style simple, stigma terminal 2-5-lobed ; 
ovules many, parietal or axile, anatropous. Fruit capsular or indehis- 
cent. Seeds usually many, albumen copious; embryo small, radicle 
next the hilum. — Distrib. Genera 9 ; species about 90, chiefly Aus- 
tralian, 
1. Pittosporum, Banks. 
Erect trees or shrubs. Sepals free or connate below. Petals erect, 
claws connivent or connato. Stamens 5, erect; anthers 2-celled, in- 
trorse, bursting by slits. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, incompletely 
2-3-celled ; ovules 2 or more on each placenta. Capsule 1-celled, woody, 
2- rarely 3-valved ; valves ptacentiferous in the middle. Seeds smooth, 
imbedded in pulp. Distrib, Species about 50, subtropical Asiatic, 
Australian, and Oceanic. 
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