Pitiosporum. | PITTOSPORACEAE. 489 
Norru Ispanp: Auckland—Kawau Island, 7. Kirk / . October-November. 
A puzzling plant, in habit and foliage not to be distinguished from large forms of 
P. tenuifolium, but the flowers are chiefly terminal and often fascicled, and the capsule 
is much larger, exactly matching that of P. ellipticum. Only one tree has been seen, 
and that was cut down several years ago. P. ellipticum is not known on Kawau Island 
or in the neighbourhood, or I should have felt tempted to have considered it as a hybrid 
between that species and P. tenuifolium. 
6. P. Huttonianum 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 1 (1870) 92.— 
A sparingly branched shrub or small tree 10-25 ft. high ; bark black ; young 
leaves and branches covered with white floccose tomentum, becoming 
glabrous when mature. Leaves alternate, 3-5in. long, broadly oblong 
elliptic-oblong or obovate-cblong, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, flat ; petioles 
4-8in. long. Flowers either axillary and solitary or in 2~5-flowered 
axillary and terminal cvmes ; peduncles slender, covered with loose white 
tomentum. Sepals oblong or lanceolate, acute, tomentose. Petals lgulate, 
sharply recurved. Ovary silky. Capsules larger than in P. tenucfolium, 
3in. diam., globose or broadly obovoid, 3-valved, rarely 2-valved, downy 
or nearly glabrous. — Students’ Fl. (1899) 48; Chzesem. Man. N.Z. FI. 
(1906) 54. 
Norra Isnanp: Great and Little Barrier Islands, 7. Kirk ! Cape Colville Penin- 
sula, from Cabbage Bay to Ohinemuri, 7. Kirk / T'. F. C., Adams ! October—Novem- 
ber. Sea-level to 1500 ft. 
Varies much in the number and position of the flowers, which may be either 
solitary or axillary, or collected into few-flowered cymes, which are then mostly ter- 
minal. In the latter case there is little to separate the species from states of 
P. fasciculatum, with the exception that P. Huttonianum, in the flowering season, always 
has the leaves, young branches, and inflorescence more or less clothed with white 
floccose tomentum, whereas P. fasciculatum has glabrous leaves and branches, and the 
rather scanty tomentum on the inflorescence cannot be described as white and floccose. 
Amv" . Se, wr. we § IX, 
7. P. obeordatum Raoul Chore (1846) os 24.—A shrub or small 
tree 6-15 ft. high ; bark pale or dark brown; branches widely spreading, 
zigzag or even tortuous, the younger ones silky towards the tips. Leaves of 
young plants extremely variable ; the first 2 or 3 oblong or elliptic, entire, 
acute ; then suddenly followed by narrow-linear leaves 4-%in. lono hv 
Pittosporum obcordatum, Raoul, 
var. Kaitaiaensis, Laing and Gourlay. 
"Kaitaia" Matthews, Carse. 
see Laing and Gourlay - T.N.2.1I. Vol. 65, De 47. 
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2-valved —Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 22; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 20 ; 
T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 48;.Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 55. 
Norru Istanp: Auckland—Swamps near the outlet of Lake Tongonge, near 
Kaitaia, Rk. H. Matthews ! H. B. Matthews, H. Carse! HAwkn’s BAyY—Swampy ground 
by the Wairoa River, G. O. K. Sainsbury! SoutH IsLanp : Canterbury—Shady woods 
near Akaroa, Raoul. October—December. 
