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76 PITTOSPORUM TENUIFOLIUM. 
ranges from *959 to °972, and its weight per cubic foot from 59°79lb. to 60°: 
A weight of 243lb. would be raneiees to break a piece lin. square and 3 
long, supported at one end and loaded at the other.* It has therefore ned 
twice the strength of English oak. 
It is occasionally used by cabinetmakers, chiefly for inlaying, but for this 
purpose has no special advantage over tawa and many other timbers. — Tes : 
valuable for inside work requiring great strength and elasticity in | positions wh ch 
do not admit the use of scantling Bt large jineastenss 
DESCRIPTION. 
Pittosporum tenuifolium, Banks and Sol. ! 
A small round-headed tree, 2oft. to 4oft. high. Leaves alternate, 
2in. long, shortly petioled, oblong-ovate or phous acute or obtuse, 
branous or slightly coriaceous, margins waved. Tlowers on short peda cles, 
solitary, axillary or forming small terminal fascicles ; calyx inferior, consis 
of five linear-oblong or ovate sepals, pubescent or silley: petals, five, free, th : 
upper portion legals ; ovary, silky, three-celled. I*ruit, a woody caps tes 
opening by three valves ; pubescent when young, glabrous and black when ‘ripe. 
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EXPLANATION OF PLATE XLVI. 
Pittosporsin le nuifolium, Banks and Sol. 1. Flowering specimen. 2. Fy a 
ing specimen, natural size. 3. Flower. i Flower ean calyx removed 
- tow ON wath REA removed, 6. Pistil. 7: Fruit with-valves opening. 
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* Balfour: Results of  Bxperiiieats on New Zealand Timbers. 
