12 ¥ 82 PITTOSPORUM EUGENIOIDES. 
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This species is frequently planted for ornamental purposes on account of its — 
attractive appearance and its’ great hardiness, while the fragrance of its flowers 
is an additional Cacotmneudaiens It is sometimes employed : as a hedge-plant, — 
and bears clipping freely. 
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DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS. 
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ey DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. 
hos Pittosporum eugenioides is generally distributed through the colony trom the 
a North Cape to Southland, but I am unable to state the exact southern limit. 
a It prefers the banks of streams, the margins of woods, thickets, the yee of 
“ hills, &c., but is rarely found in dense forest. 
a" It sere from sea-level to fully 2,oo0o0ft., but is most plentiful in ee rs 
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~ DESCRIPTION. 
= Pittosporum eugenioides, A. Cunningham. 
f. A small evergreen tree, 20ft. to 4oft. high, branches and leaves glabrous. 
“oe Leaves alternate or sometimes verticillate, shorily petioled, 2in. to gin. long, jin. 
‘ to 1hin. broad, elliptical or broadly-ovate, acute. Flowers pale-yellow, numerous, 
in terminal branched corymbs; branches hairy, diverging, with. minute linear 
bracteoles; pedicels slender. exes inferior; sepals, five, one-third the length of — 
the petals; petals, five, linear, spreading or recurved; stamens, five, filaments — 
slender; ovary two-celled, silky. Fruit, a two- or ely thred-valved capsule, 
, tin. long, glabrous. | 
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i EXPLANATION OF PLaTE XLIX.. 
“4 Pittosporum eugenioides, A, Cunn. Flowering SPO eiee: natural size. 
¥, 1. Flower, magnified. 2. Fruit, natural size. 
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