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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[. Pittosporece . 
finally greyish downs, and are above wrinkled by the impressed nerves and veins, in glandulous-downy 
larger bracteoles, in a more contracted often drooping inflorescence, in free sepals, in yellowish longer 
coherent petals, in more ovate tardily glabrescent not rarely 3-valved capsules, which are bright yellow or 
almost orange-colored inside, in longer orange Amides, and in less angular more globose seeds. P. revolu- 
tum occurs through Eastern Australia as far north as Moreton Bay, and may possibly exist on the eastern 
frontiers of this colony. The New Zealanclian P. umbellatum is to be distinguished already by its not undu¬ 
lated leaves, by its broader bracts, umbellate longer pedicels, free sepals and granulate somewhat tetragonous 
capsules. P. rhombifolium, which ranges from the McLeay to the Burnett River, is the only other Australian 
species producing white petals; it differs, however, widely already in its toothed leaves, small copious pani¬ 
culate flowers, less downy ovaries and minute capsules. 
Bears flowers in open localities during the spring; in the dense forest during the summer. 
Fittosporum bicolor, Hook. Jourvi. of Sot, i. 249; Putt. Syu. Pittosp, 17; J. Hook. Flora 
Tasmania , i. 38. 
.Leaves coriaceous, on short petioles, oblong- or linear- rarely ovate-lanceolate acute or rather blunt, 
entire, indistinctly veined, generally recurved at the margin, beneath silky - or velvety-downy, as well as tie 
branchlets, pedicels and sepals, above Scantily downy or glabrescent; pedicels axillary and terminal, solitary 
or umbellate, surrounded at the base with several or numerous imbricated small bracts; sepals narrow-or 
ovate-lanceolate, about three times shorter than the corolla; petals purple and yellow , narrow spathulate- 
oblong; anthers nearly thrice shorter than the filaments; ovary outside everywhere silky-tomentose; capsule 
roundish, thick-coriaceous, bivalved, somewhat compressed and downy; Amides short; seeds an<mlar 
brownish-red. 
In the fern-tree gullies from Wilson’s Promontory to the Delatite, the Dandenong Ranges and Mount 
Disappointment; also in the ranges towards Cape Otway and Apollo Bay, and on Mount Tambo; ascending 
to subalpine elevations. Not rare in the damp forest ranges of Tasmania. 
A small tree, which, however, in favorable spots assumes a height of 40 feet, whilst it retains in 
exposed localities and higher mountain regions mostly a bushy habit. Branchlets leafy, covered, like the 
lower page of the leaves and the pedicels and sepals, with a thin fulvous or ferruginous in age more or less 
canescent toment. Leaves resembling those of certain Grevillese more than those of most Pittospora, 1-3 
inches long, 2-8 lines broad, exceptionally larger, often of considerable stiffness, not narrowly pointed; their 
surface shining; their margin much more frequently recurved or even revolute, than flat; their lateral 
nerves thin; their veins merely observable in age. Outer bracts from orbicular gradually ovate, f-l± line 
long; inner ones from an elliptical form verging gradually into a linear-oblong one, 1^-3 lines long; inner¬ 
most generally almost linear; all either perfectly silky-downy at the back, or only ciliated towards the 
margin. Pedicels varying in length from ^-1 inch, rather slender, bearing occasionally a subulate- or 
linear-lanceolate bracteole near its middle. Flowers faintly odorous. Sepals 1J-2 rarely 3 lines Ion* 
somewhat unequal, reflexed in age. Petals glabrous, colored by a mixed tint of yellow and purple, soon 
longitudinally disjoined, more blunt than acute, above the middle reflexed. Filaments linear-filiform, about 
2 h li nes l° n gV glabrous. Anthers yellow, sometimes from a saggitate base nearly linear, sometimes from a 
cordate base oblong, §-l line long. Style either silky or with exception of its base glabrous, 1-2 lines long, 
filiform. Stigma slightly bilobed, depressed. Capsules measuring 4-5 lines, outward blackish-brown in age. 
Seeds conglomerated by their viscid pulp. 
This tree exudes like several of its congeners a pale useftil gum. 
Fittosporum pliyllirasoides, Cand. Prodr. i. 347; Putterl. Syn. Pitt. 16; Lehn. Pl.Prm. 
i. 192; P. ligustrifolium, All. Cunn. in Loud. Hort. Brit. Suppl. i. 597; P. olesefolium, All. Cum. in 
Putt. Syn. Pitt. 17; P. Roeaniun, Putt. 1. c.; P. longifcHnm, .Putt. 1. c.; P. acacioides, All. Cum. in 
