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PITTOSPORUM revolutum. 
Yellow Pitlosporun. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Pirrosporem. Brown in append. to Flinders’s voy. 2. 542. 
PITTOSPORUM,. Cal. Spe nautR ‘inferus, deciduus, foliolis 
subzequalibus. Cor. pentapctala, petalis inferné in tubum coherentibus, 
superné acutis recurvis. Stam. hypogyna, cum petalis alternantia; inclusa. 
Germ. superum: stylus unicus: stig. subcapitatum. Caps, 1-loc., stylo 
umbilicata, bi-aut trivalvis, polysperma; valvulis medio septiferis: sem. 
angulata septo inserta, duplici serie superposita: embryo minutus, propé 
umbilicum, inclusus aléumine carnoso. Frutices v. arbores, inordinaté ra- 
mosi, folia alterna, brevi petiolata, exstipulata, integerrima ; flores terminales, 
azillaresve, subracemost, bracteat?. Bonpland log. infra cit. 56. 
P. revolutum, foliis ellipticis obtusiusculis subtis pubescentibus margine 
revoluto. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 27. 
Pittosporum tomentosum. Bonpland nav. & malmais. 1. 57. t. 21. 
Pittosporum flavum. Rudge in trans. linn. soc. 10. 298; cum icone ad sic- 
cum delineata, 
Frutex erectus, caulescens, sparse ramosus; rami teretes, inferné versits 
nudiusculi v. foliis paucis vagis, in surculis novellissimis ferrugineo-tomentosi, 
crebriusque foliati. Folia sparsa, obverse ovali-oblonga acumine ab abrupto 
brevique varie producto, deorsim longé attenuata, subtis lunuginosa vel potius 
tomentosa in junioribus tomento denso ferrugineo, tri-quadriuncialia, latitudine 
unciali v. sesquiunciali, supra glabra, saturaté virentia, margine brevi reflexo 
cincta.. Flores pallido-flavi, nutantér et simplicitér racemost terminales: pe- 
dunculo recurvo tereti subviscoso-tomentoso, ferrugineo, uni-biuncialis v, ultra, 
superne florifero, pedicellis plis minus fastigiantibus, nunc quasi _umbellatis, 
bracteatis, bracteis foliolis calycinis similibus, apice reflexis. Cal. patens, 
mallidé virens, extius viscoso-willosus, corolla % breviors foliolis lanceolatis, 
arm ineequalibus, intis glabris, Tubus corolle triplo longior limbo, pal- 
ihe: cylindricus, subventricosus, suturis 5 ubi coherent ungues petalorum 
striatus, intus viscosus ; laminee limbi flave, leves, oblonga, obtuse primd pa- 
tentes, indé revolute. Fil. alba, longitudine tubi. — Anth. furvo-fulve; ex 
apice emicantes, sa, yittato-oblong@, dorso longe supra basin appense, tntro- 
pers, rima lateralt utrinque dehiscentes: pollen flavum. Germ. oblongum 
dense ferrugineo-hirsutum, biloculare, succo resinoso scatens, ovulis nume- 
rosis: stylus teres, strictus, duplo brevior germine, virens: stig. pileato-v. den 
" presso-capitatum. 
Pittosporee is the name of a natural order defined 
‘by Mr. Brown, in a treatise on the vegetation of Terra 
‘Australis, which forms the Appendix to the Voyage. of Cap- 
‘tain Flinders. In this valuable tract, besides the illustra- 
tion of the characters of the so termed natural orders oF 
families of -yegetables, a labdvious and judicious attention 
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