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21. PITTOSPOBACEiE. 
cate in the bud. Stam. 5 distinct alternate. Ov. free 2-5- 
celled, cells with many ovules ; style 1 ; stigmas 2-5. Fr. a 
capsule or berry, with 2-5 many-seeded cells and more or less 
complete dissepiments; dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds nume- 
rous, bathed in a viscid resinous juice. Embryo minute in a 
fleshy albumen; radicle long slender; cot. short indistinct. — 
Small mostly resinous tr. or shr. L. simple alternate coriaceous 
without stip. FI. white or yellowish, rarely blue. 
1. Pittosporum. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, the claws cohering. 
Caps. 2-3-valved, 1-celled. Seeds enveloped in resinous 
gum. 
1. PlTTOSPOEUM Sol. 
1. P. coriaceum Ait. Moquem , or Moqumo. 
Arborescent ; 1. coriaceous obovate-oblong or spathulate 
mostly obtuse quite smooth and entire ; fl. in terminal subum- 
bellate racemes or racemose panicles ; br. ped. pedic. and sep. 
rusty-pubescent. — Sol. ! in Ilort. Ivew. ed. 1. iii. 488; Yahl Symb. 
ii. 43 ; Andr.Bot. Rep. 1. 151; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 569; DC. i. 346; 
Spr. i. 791; WB. ii. 139, 140. — Arb. per. Mad. reg. 2, 3; rrr. 
High rocks and remote inaccessible cliff's in ravines in the 
north ; Seisal, 1855, S r J. M. Moniz, growing in large quantity 
at a place called As FCmtes and Rib. das Fontes, 1857, Mr. N. H. 
Mason, who has also observed a single tree in Rib. da Metade 
and two in Rib. Frio on almost inaccessible rocks. Young 
pi. in the grounds of Jas. Bean, Esq. at Camaclia are said to 
have come from the Serra of Porto da Cruz : other full-grown 
trees are in the Quinta da Cova at the Mount. May, June. 
— A small tree from 15 to 25 ft. high with a straight tr unk 
4-6 in. diani. or as thick as the arm or thigh and a close or 
bushy somewhat pyramidal or oblong head of very dark gr. not 
shining foliage. Bark light ash-colour smooth and even. Wood 
white and close-grained but of no particular use. Branchlets 
proliferous in terminal bunches or umbels stiff* and strong 
naked downwards. L. collected thickly towards the ends of 
the branches stiff and rigid, dark gr. above, pale beneath ; when 
young light gr. and furry or velvety-pubescent on their upper 
surface only with the petioles, both becoming presently quite 
smooth and shining; the nerves indistinct or inconspicuous ; the 
margins thin pellucid quite entire slightly revolute at least in 
the dried pi., the 1. otherwise, especially while young, rather 
peculiarly flat, in shape oblong attenuated downwards into 
the short flattened petiole subacute whilst young, afterwards 
more or less obtuse and spathulate 2-4 in. long and 1-2 in. 
broad. E.-buds short ovate imbricated with dark brown scales 
which are persistent at the base of the shoots for a year or 
