Pittosporum. | PITTOSPORACEAE. 489 
Norru Istanp: 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. tenwifoliwm. 
6. P. Huttonianum 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst, u (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 
elabrous when mature. Leaves alternate, 3-5in. long, broadly oblong 
elliptic-oblong or obovate-cblong, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, flat ; petioles 
1-3in. long. Flowers either axillary and solitary or in 25-flowered 
axillary and terminal cymes ; peduncles slender, covered with loose white 
tomentum. Sepals oblong or lanceolate, acute, tomentose. Petals ligulate, 
sharply recurved. Ovary silky. Capsules larger than in P. tenufohwm, 
2in. diam., globose or broadly obovoid, 3-valved, rarely 2-valved, downy 
or nearly glabrous. — Students’ Fl. (1899) 48; Chzesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 54. 
Norra Istanp: 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. 
Caw. Se, ats, tii; aha. 
7. P. obeordatum Raoul Chore (1846) oft 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 }-$in. long by 
Lin. broad, which may be entire, or more commonly are irregularly lobed, 
toothed, cr pinnatifid. Leaves of mature plants alternate or in alternate 
fascicles of 2-4, 1-3in. long, broadly obovate or obcordate or almost orbi- 
cular, coriaceous, quite entire, glabrous or the margins and petioles occa- 
sionally furnished with silky hairs, gradually narrowed into a short slender 
petiole ; veins conspicuous beneath. Flowers small, gin. long, axillary, 
solitary or 2-3 together, pale-purple to saffron-yellow or almost white, 
sometimes with a stripe of dark-claret on the petals ; peduncles short, 
slender, silky; sepals short, ovate-lanceolate, silky with white hairs ; 
petals twice the length of the sepals, linear-lanceolate, with spreading tips ; 
ovary silky. Capsule ovoid, acuminate, glabrous when old, ~-31n. long, 
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. 
Nortru Istanp: Auckland—Swamps near the outlet of Lake Tongonge, near 
Kaitaia, R. H. Matthews ! H. B. Matthews, H. Carse! HaAwke’s BAy—Swampy ground 
by the Wairoa River, G. O. K. Sainsbury! Sourn Istanp : Canterbury—Shady woods 
near Akaroa, Raoul. October—December. 
