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Pittosporum phillyneoides, DC. 
The Narrow-leaved Pittosporum. 
(Natural Order PITTOSPORACEyE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Pittosporum , Banks. 
Petals. —Usually connivent or cohering in a tube at their base or above the middle. 
Anthers. —Ovate, oblong. 
Ovary. —Sessile or shortly stipitate, incompletely or almost completely two-celled, or rarely three 
to five celled. 
Style. —Short. 
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Capsule. —Globose, ovate or obovate, often laterally compressed ; the valves coriaceous or thick 
and hard, bearing the placentas along their centre. 
Seeds. —Thick or globular, not winged, often enveloped in a viscous liquor. 
Shrubs or trees, glabrous, or rarely tomentose. 
Leaves. —Usually evergreen, entire or minutely toothed, the upper ones frequently collected into 
a false whorl. 
Flowers. —Not large, axillary, or terminal; solitary or in close corymbose panicles. (B.FL, 1, 109.) 
Botanical description. —Species, phillyroeoides , DC.*—Prod, i, 347 . Putterlick 
in PL, Preiss. i, 192 ; P. Mueller, PL Viet, i, 72 . 
A small, graceful tree or slender shrub, quite glabrous in all its parts. 
Leaves. —Usually oblong or linear-lanceolate, with a small, hooked point, 2 to 4 inches long, quite 
entire, narrowed into a petiole, thick coriaceous and indistinctly veined, but in some forms 
short and broadly oblong, in others long and narrow. 
Pedicels. —Axillary, solitary, or in sessile or shortly pedunculate clusters or umbels, or the upper¬ 
most forming a terminal cluster. 
Flowers. —Yellow, usually about 4 lines long, often dioecious, the females rather larger and fewer 
together than the males. 
Sepals. —Short and very obtuse. 
Petals. —United to the middle or still higher, spreading at the top. 
Ovary. —Pubescent, almost completely two-celled, with six to eight ovules in each cell. 
Fruit. —Ovate or round cordate, much compressed, quite smooth, varying from 4 to 9 lines in 
length, but usually about \ inch. 
Seeds. —Few, dark or orange-red. (B.F1. i. 112.) 
A. DC.’s original spelling is “ phillineoides. 
