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PITTOSPORUM tomentosum. 
Woolly-leaved Pittosporum. 
Linnean Class and Order. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, PITTOSPORE/®. DC. prodr.1. p. 345. Supra fol. 26. 
PITTOSPORUM. Supra fol. 25, 

P. tomentosum, foliis obovali-oblongis utrinqué acutis planis superne glabris: subtis 
ramisque pubescenti-tomentosis, floribus adgregato-paniculatis, pedicellis glabri- 
usculis, calycibus acutis erectis, corollo cylindrico. 
Pittosporum tomentosum. Bonpl. nav. t.21. DC. prodr.1. p. 346. 

A handsome bushy evergreen Shrub: branches erect or a 
little spreading, thickly clothed with adense tomentum. Leaves 
alternate, crowded at the points of the branches, flat or but very 
slightly undulate, obovally oblong, the broadest part uppermost, 
acute at both ends, upper side smooth, and a little glossy, of a 
yellowish green, underneath clothed with a soft dense rusty-grey 
tomentum, the nerves pinnately branched, and obscurely reticu- 
late: young leaves slightly tomentose on the upper side, which 
soon wears off. Petzoles short, densely tomentose, flat on the 
upper side and rounded on the lower. Flowers nodding, termi- 
nal, and sometimes axillary as in our specimens, which is occa- 
sioned by the strength of the plants, crowded in a sort of nod- 
ding cyme or panicle, scentless, the mean stem of the panicle 
densely clothed with rusty coloured wool. Bractes subulate, 
woolly, about the length of the pedicles. Pedicles nearly 
smooth, or but slightly pubescent, light green. Calywz of 5 se- 
pals, which are erect, lanceolate, acute, broad at the base, 
slightly keeled, pubescent. Petals 5, cream-coloured, united 
into a nearly cylindrical striated tube, the points roundly oval, 
obtuse, spreading or slightly reflexed. Stamens 5, inserted in 
the receptacle, alternate with the petals, to which they adhere 
by their back: filaments smooth, attached to the back of the 
anthers, which are 2 lobed and exserted a little: pollen pale 
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