32 NATIVE FLOWERS OF VICTORIA. 
Pittosporum hedges are well known, there being 
several species grown for that purpose. The one 
that is native to Victoria, Pittosporum undulatum, 
has fairly large and broad green leaves, slightly 
undulate or wavy at the edges. The flowers, as 
above mentioned, are very sweetly scented. When 
young, and when the growths are young, it is very 
subject to frosts. The young plants thus require 
certain shelter and later on, when pruned, the work 
should be done at the close of the frost season. 
The order to which these plants belong — ^the Pit- 
tosporeae — also owns some dainty climbing plants. 
Billardiera scandens, and two other allied species, are 
sparse growing climbers with delicate cream or yeUow 
bell-shaped flowers. One species has bright blue 
fruits. Another is IMarianthus bignoniaceus, a still 
more dainty bell-shaped climber with charming pale 
orange-coloured bells. It is plentiful along the 
water courses of the Grampians, where it flowers in 
great profusion. A really dainty plant, still of this 
order, and one which always attracts notice on ac- 
count of its open and brilliantly blue flowers, is 
Chieranthera linearis, the “finger-flower.” The 
flowers are nearly one inch across and the gentian- 
blue colour is very striking. It is a low-growing 
plant, favouring harsh or stony situations in the 
warmer parts of Victoria ; and in the north-eastern 
district, particularly near Seymour, it is especially 
fine in spring. The plants are from a foot to eighteen 
inches in height, with slender stems often with five 
or six flowers. 
