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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[■ Pittosporea . 
appressed to the connective of the anthers, of about equal length with the anther-cells. Terminal appendage 
of the stamens orange, from a dilated base upwards attenuated, about \ line long. Anthers yellow, sub- 
ovate, about l line long. Pollen-grains ellipsoid, bursting lengthwise. Style glabrous, filiform, less than | 
line long, persistent. Lobes of stigma fiat, very short, spreading, nearly semiovate. Ovary attenuated into 
the style, with 2-4 parietal ovules, of which generally only one or two are advancing to fertility. Berry 
ovate-globose, of about the size of a pea, without pulp, of a purplish color. Seeds 1J-2 lines long; of an 
exactly ovate form, if only one becomes developed; or when two are fertile assuming an oblique-ovate form, 
in being turgid at the hack and flat at the commissural face, suspended from very short funicles, black, 
smooth, livid before ripe. Testa crustaceous. Embryo not much shorter than the albumen. Radicle cylin¬ 
drical, as long as the thin-laminar ovate-orbicular cotyledons. 
In flower during the spring*. 
This plant seems to perfect male and female flowers on separate plants, although they are hermaphro¬ 
dite. The male flowers are longer stalked, and have larger petals and anthers, whilst the ovary is almost 
suppressed and the lobes of the stigma remain united. The female flowers are provided with shorter anthers 
and smaller staminal appendages, whilst the ovary soon enlarges, and the stigma spreads with comparatively 
conspicuous lobes. Endlicher described most accurately analogous floral disparities of the H. latifolia. 
Leaves quite as large as those delineated by Bauer in his iconography may exceptionally be seen in the 
Australian species. The figure of H. crassifolia, furnished by Fitch, shows more acute dorsal scales of the 
stamens and a cylindrical embryo to form the main distinctions of the New Zealand congener. 
L. Becker directs attention to the lasting purple pigment of the berries. No Violaceous plants, beyond 
those alluded to in these pages, are as yet known from any part of Australia hitherto explored. 
Oedee PITTOSPOEE^. 
H. JBr . in Flinders' Voyage , ii. 542. 
Mowers exactly or nearly symmetrical. Sepals and petals 5, rarely 4, deciduous, 
imbricate in aestivation, free or coherent. Stamens 5, rarely 4, hypogynous, distinct, 
alternate with the petals. Anthers introrse, terminal, opening hy two slits or pores. 
Style 1. Stigma faintly or distinctly 2—5-lohed. Ovary 2—5-celled. Ovules anatropal. 
Fruit capsular or baccate, many-seeded, rarely two-seeded. Seeds attached to the 
margin of the dissepiments, albuminous. Embryo extremely minute, next to the 
hilum. 
Elegant trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, occurring sparingly in Africa, Oceania, the 
warmer parts of Asia and tropical Australia, more frequently in the extratropical 
part of the Australian continent, some ascending to alpine elevations. Leaves simple, 
alternate, undivided, rarely pinnatitld. Stipules wanting. Flowers hermaphrodite, 
rarely polygamous or dioecious; their disposition and color various.— Cand, Prodr. i. 
345; JPutterl. Synops. Pittosporear. 1. 
This order stands amongst Thalamiflorae next in its relationship to Violacese, 
whilst amongst Calyciflorm it closely approaches to Celastrineae. The genuine genera 
of the order, not represented within the Colony of Victoria, are Citriohatus, Sollya, 
Homalosporum and Hymenosporum. 
