PITTOSPORACEiE. 
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tinct. Petals 5, regular, imbricated, free or connate below. Stamens 
5, hypogynous, free, alternate with the petals ; filaments filiform ; 
anthers versatile, 2-celled. Ovary usually 1-celled, with usually 2 
parietal placentas ; style simple ; stigma capitate ; ovules many. 
Fruit capsular or baccate. Seeds albuminous; embryo minute. — Erect 
or climbing shrubs, with alternate exstipulato mostly entire leaves ; 
inflorescence various. Distrib. Australian, except Pittosporum . 
Species 90. 
1. PITTOSPORUM, Banks. 
Sepals lanceolate, slightly connate below. Petals 5, oblanceolate, 
free or connate below, much exceeding the calyx. Stamens 5; 
filaments subulate ; anthers dehiscing by two slits. Ovary sessile or 
short-stalked ; placentas 2-3 ; style short ; stigma obscurely lobed. 
Eruit dehiscing readily into 2-3 coriaceous valves. Seeds not winged, 
imbedded in pulp. — Erect glabrous shrubs with flowers mostly in dense 
corymbs. Distrib. Polynesia to Trop. Africa. Species 50. 
1. P. Senacia, Putteri. ; Walp. Pep. i. 250. A much-branched 
glabrous shrub. Leaves subcoriaceous, obovate-oblong, 2-5 in. long, 
cuneate at base, acute or obtuse, short-petioled, crowded at the 
nodes. Flowers in dense terminal corymbs. Petals yellowish, | in. 
long. Ovary short-stalked ; placentas 2. Fruit with two spreading 
round persistent coriaceous valves, ^ in. broad, tipped with the per- 
sistent style. P. mauritianum, Sieber. Senacia undulata, Lam. 
Mauritius, in the forests of the Pouce, etc. Seychelles, in Mahe and Silhouette, 
in rocky places at 800-1500 feet above sea-level, Dr. Wright l Horne , 434! 
Kodriguez, tolerably abundant in the valleys, Balfour ! Also Bourbon. Senacia 
lanceolata, DC., is a mere form with narrower leaves. Bois de Joli Occur, Bois Malabar. 
Order X. CARY OPHYLLACEiE. 
Sepals mostly 5, in the Mauritian genera free to the base. Petals 
the same number, often bifid. Stamens as many as the petals, or twice 
as many, usually hypogynous ; filaments filiform ; anthers 2-celled, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 1-celled, sessile or stalked ; placen- 
tation free-central ; ovules many, campylotropal ; styles free or connate. 
Capsule membranous, splitting variously. Seeds usually many, reni- 
form ; embryo curved round a central mass of albumen. — Herbs, with 
opposite entire rarely stipulate leaves and hermaphrodite flowers in 
terminal cymes. Distrib. Mainly temperate regions of the northern 
hemisphere. Species 800. 
Stamens hypogynous ; stipules none. 
Capsule ovoid, with 6 deep valves * Stellaria. 
Capsule cylindrical, with 10 minute teeth 1. Cerastium. 
Stamens perigynous ; stipules bristly 2. Drymaria. 
* Stellaria media, Yill., the common European chick weed, is 
established in Mauritius as a weed in some places. It is a tufted 
annual, with weak stems, marked by a hairy line ; opposite short- 
