486 | PITTOSPORACHAE. [ Pittosporum. 
PITTOSPORUM Banks. (76%: 
Trees or shrubs, glabrous or tomentose. Leaves alternate or subverti- 
cillate, usually entire, rarely sinuate-toothed or lobed. Flowers axillary 
or terminal, solitary or in fascicles, umbels, or corymbs. Sepals free or 
connate below. Petals 5, with erect claws, often connivent below; tips 
recurved. Stamens 5, erect; filaments subulate; anthers 2-celled, in- 
trorse. Ovary incompletely 2—4-celled; style short. Capsule globose, 
ovoid or obovoid, 1-celled ; valves 2-4, hard and woody, bearing the placentas 
along the centre. Seeds immersed in a viscid fluid. 
A genus of between 60 and 70 species, found in Africa, subtropical Asia, Australia, 
the Pacific islands, and New Zealand. All the New Zealand species are endemic, and 
most of them are confined to the North Island. The flowers are frequently polygamous 
or even unisexual. 
A. Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled ; sometimes terminal, but in that case axillary 
flowers are present as well. (Flowers often strictly terminal in P. divaricatum. ) 
Leaves 1-2in., obtuse or acute, thin, margins waved. Flowers 
solitary. Capsules }in. diam., valves thin .. b. .. 1, P. tenucfolium. © 
Leaves 2-3in., acute, coriaceous, margins flat. Flowers usually | 
solitary. Capsules }in. diam., valves thick and woody .. 2. P. Colensor. 
Flowers in axillary and terminal fascicles, otherwise asin P.Colensot 3. P. fasciculatum. 
Leaves 2-5in., oblong-lanceolate, submembranous. Peduncles 
long, 2in., 1-2-flowered. Capsules small, less than din. diam.. 4. P. Buchanani. 
Leaves 14-2in., oblong-obovate. Flowers axillary and terminal, 
solitary or fascicled. Capsules mostly terminal, large, ¢ in, 
diam. .. y = ad e re .. dD. P. intermedium. 
Leaves large, 3-5in., broadly oblong, covered with white floccose 
tomentum when young. Flowers axillary and terminal, solitary 
or fascicled. Capsules 2-3 in. diam. sf i: .. 6. P. Huttonianum. © 
Small rigid shrub. Leaves small, }in., obcordate. Flowers 
axillary, solitary or 2-3 together .. 7. P. obcordatum. 
Small woody shrub. Leaves }-lin., oblong or obovate. Flowers 
solitary and axillary, rarely terminal. Capsules small, fin. .. 8. P. rigidum. 
Hard and rigid shrub; branches interlaced and divaricating. 
Leaves polymorphous, oblong to linear, 3-jin. flowers ter- 
minal or on short arrested axillary branchlets mS. .. 9. P. divaricatum. 
B. Flowers strictly terminal, in umbels or fascicles, rarely solitary. 
Leaves elliptic-oblong or elliptic-obovate, 24in., clothed with 
ferruginous tomentum. Capsules broadly ovoid, fin. diam., 
2-valved i ew me . f .. 10. P. ellipticum. 
Leaves linear or linear-oblong, entire, lobed, or pinnatifid. Umbels 
4-8-flowered. Capsules }in. diam., globose, 2-valved .. Ll. P. patulum, 
Juvenile plant with divaricating branches. Adult leaves linear- 
or oblong-spathulate. Capsules 4-jin. diam. . 12. P. Turneri.” . 
Leaves elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, 1—2in., often lobed or 
pinnatifid on young trees. Clothed with ferruginous tomentum. 
Capsules 4 in. diam., globose, 2-valved ry : P 
Leaves linear-oblong, 1-1} in. long ; young leaves as in P. virgatum. 
Capsules 2in. long, subpyriform nf 23 : J 
Leaves oblong or oblong-obovate, 2-5 in., white beneath ; margins 
flat. Capsules 2in., 3-valved . 15. P. Ralphat. 
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. virgatum. 
. Matthewsii. 
Leaves linear-obovate, 2-3in., white or buff below, thick, margins 
recurved. Capsule tomentose, }-141n. long, 3-valved VEG. 
Leaves elliptic-obovate, 2-3in., glabrous when mature, margins 
flat. Capsules 2—lin., glabrous, 3-4-valved.. y a 
Leaves obovate or oblong-lanceolate, glabrous. Umbels many- 
flowered. Capsules small, }in. diam., tetragonous or 4-lobed, | 
2-valved + + - 1 — .. 18. P. umbellatum. 
Leaves linear-obovate, 2-4in., glabrous. Flowers yellow. Cap- 
sules large, elliptic-oblong, 1} in. long, 2-valved Ke _. 19. P. Kirkii. 
. crassifolium. © 
. Fairchildi. 
