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PITTOSPORUM fulvum. 
Tawny Pittosporum. 
Linnean Class and Order. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. PITTOSPOREX,. Brown gen. rem. ter. aust, p- 10. 
Calyx 5-sepalus deciduus, sepalis nunc liberis nune ad medium coalitis, estiva- 
tione imbricata. Petala5,hypogyna, unguibus conniventibus interdiim coherentibus, 
laminis patulis wstivatione imbricatis. Stamina 5 hypogyna, distincta, cam petalis 
alternantia. Ovariwn 1 liberum, loculis placentisve 2-5 polyspermis. Stylus 1. Stig- 
mata numero placentarum. Pericarpium capsulare vel baccatum, loculis polyspermis 
quandoque incompletis. Semina sepé pulpA glutinosA obducta. Embryo minutus, 
prope umbilicum, in albumine carnoso inclusus, dicotyledoneus, radicula longiusculA, 
cotyledonibus brevissimis.—Frutices vel Arbuscule Africune, Asiatice aut plereque 
Australasica. Folia simplicia, alterna, exstipulata, penninervia, sepius integra. Flores 
terminales vel axillares, interdiun polygami. DC. prodr. p. 345. 
PITTOSPORUM. Calyx 5 sepalus. Petala 5 unguibus in tubum conniventibus. 
Capsula 2-3-valvis, 1-locularis, valvis medio septiferis. Semina pulpa resinosa ob- 
ducta.—Frutices foliis integris persistentibus. DC. prodr, 1. p. 346, 

P. fulvum, foliis laté lanceolatis oblongisve obtusis: junioribus ntrinque tomentosis ; 
adultis glabris reticulatis in petiolis et per nervos tomentosis, ramis ferrugineo-to- 
mentosis, pedunculis adgregatis, calycibus patulis. 
Pittosporum fulvum. Rudge in Linn. trans, 10. p. 298. t.20. DC. prodr.1, p.346. Rem. 
et Schult. syst.5. p.431. 


A dwarf spreading evergreen shrub. Branches slender, when 
young clothed with a dense ferruginous tomentum, which wears 
off by age, the upper and lower part of the branch leafy, but 
between the joints naked, or only an attempt at leaves. Leaves 
oblong or broadly lanceolate, more or less obtuse, undulate, 
scattered, alternate or in whorls, upper ones crowded, clothed 
with a thick brown tomentum on both sides, broader and flat- 
ter than those below; lower ones smooth on both sides, reticu- 
lately veined, the nerves only pubescent; middle ones smooth 
on the upper side, and ferruginously pubescent underneath. 
Pettoles short, thickest at the base, densely clothed with brown 
wool. Flowers pale yellow, pendulous, crowded in a terminal 
corymbose raceme, 9 in each of the perfect specimens that we 
have examined. Pedunele densely clothed with a rusty brown 
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