Pittosporum. | PITTOSPORACEAE, 49] 
In the Plora and again in the Handbook this was included by Hooker in his 
circumscription of P. mgidem, to which it is certainly very closely allied. But it differs 
from that plant im the thick and rigid flexuose and interlaced branches ; 3 in the much 
more glabrous habit; im the much smaller polymorphous leaves; and in the juvenile 
leaves being largely evident in all stages of the growth of the plant. 
10. P. ellipticum JT. Aik in Trans. N.Z. Inst. wv (1872) 266.— 
A small spreadin ng tree with black bark, 15-25 ft. high; branchlets, young 
leaves, and intiorescence densely covered with ferruginous tomentum. Leaves 
2-4 in. long, elliptte-oblong or elliptic-obovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute 
or obtuse, quite entire, coriaceous; petioles short, stout. Flowers in 
terminal 2-5-tlowered umbels: peduncles short, decurved. Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, densely tomentose. Petals recurved at the tips. Capsules 
broadly ovoid, slightly Se rage in. diam., tomentose, 2-valved ; valves 
faintly 2-lobed.—Students’ FI. (1899) 52 ; Cheesem. Man. NZ. Fil. (1906) 
5T; ill. NZ. #3 1914) t. 15. 
Var. ovatum T. Arrt Siudents’ Fl. l.e—Leaves smaller, spreading, broadly elliptical 
or obovate, rounded at the apex. Flowers not seen. 
Var. decorum Cy/esem.—Leaves narrower. Flowers more numerous, in both 
terminal and lateral fascicles. 
Nortx [stanp: Whangaroa, Buchanan! T. Kirk! Mount Manaia, Whangarei 
Heads, 7. Kirk, T.. F. C. : coast north of the Manukau Harbour, Waitakerei West, 
T. F.C. Var,decorum: Ohinemuri Gorge, TJ, F. C., Petrie! Gordon Settlement, 
Downard ! Hawai River, inland from Opotiki, fF. R. Field! Aorangi Scenic Reserve, 
V. Sherwood ! base of Mount Hikurangi, G. 7. Wiliams! Var.ovatum: Whangarca 
and Mount Manaia, 7. Kirk ! October-November. 
A very variable plant. Lam greatly puzzled with var. decorum, which agrees exactly 
with the type in the ferruginous tomentum, but differs in the inflorescence being both 
terminal and lateral. It has some points of agreement with P. Huttonianum, but never 
has the white floccose tomentum which is such a distinctive character when P. Huttor- 
ianum is in bloom. 
Stag ye patulum Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 19.—An erect shrub 
or small tree 6-15 ft. high, alabrous except the young shoots and peduncles, 
which are sparingly clothed with fulvous silky hairs ; begpeul ets stout. 
aes extremely variable, in the young state 1-2 in. long, 4 6-3 In. broad, 
linear, closely and deeply lobed or pinnatifid, the lobes often again toothed, 
eradually passing into the mature stage, which is linear or linear-oblong, 
entire or crenate-serrate, coriaceous, obtuse, gradually narrowed into a 
short stout petiole. Flowers in 4-8-flowered terminal umbels, highly 
fragrant; pedicels slender, $in. long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, pointed. 
Petals twice as long as the sepals, obtuse, recurved at the tips. Capsules 
globose or broader ‘than long, 4in. diam., compressed, 2-valved.—T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 56; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 56. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Cobb Valley (to the north of Mount Arthur), F. G. 
Gibbs {! Lake Rotoiti, Buchanan! T. F. C.; Wairau Mountains, Sinclair; Lake 
Guyon, W. 7. L. Travers ; Glacier Gully, Spenser Mountains, 7, Kirk! Canterbury— 
Maitland Creek, head of Lake Ohau, J. H. C. Bond ex Cockayne. Altitudinal range 
2000-4000 ft. 
A very remarkable and distinct species, very local in its distribution. I have seen 
but few flowering specimens. 
P. Turneri Peire wv. sp.—A small spreading shrub or small tree 
§—20 ft. high; trunk seldom more than 6 in. diam.; bark dark-grey or brown, 
Young leaves and inflorescence at first clothed with soft pale fulvous hairs 
or tomentum. Young plants up to 5 or 8 ft. high furnished with divaricating 
