494 PITTOSPORACEAE. | Pattosporum. 
2-3 in. long, obovate or elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or acute, 
eradually narrowed into short stout petioles, coriaceous, margins flat. 
Flowers terminal, solitary or in 2-4-flowered umbels. Sepals linear-oblong, 
acute, tomentose. Petals more than twice as long as the sepals, recurved 
at the tips. Fruiting-peduncles slender, decurved. Capsules large, de- 
pressed, broader than long, #-lin. diam., glabrous even when half-grown, 
3-4-valved ; valves hard and woody, often lobed.—T. Kirk Students’ FI. 
(1899) 51; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 58. | 
Nortu Istanp: Three Kings Islands, 7. F. C. August-September. 
Differs from P. crassifolium in the broader flat leaves and smaller glabrous depressed 
capsule. It approaches P. umbellatum in the foliage, but is readily distinguished by the 
silky tomentose branchlets, fewer flowers, and much larger capsules. 
18. P. umbellatum. Banks and Sol. ex Gaertn. Fruct. 1 (1788) 286, 
t. 59.—A small branching’ tree 12-25 ft. high, perfectly glabrous except the 
young shoots, which are thinly clothed with silky fulvous hairs. Leaves 
alternate or subwhorled, 2-4in. long, obovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong 
or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, dark-green above, paler 
below, narrowed into rather long petioles $—-?in. long. Flowers in many- 
flowered terminal umbels; peduncles slender, longer than the petioles. 
Sepals ovate-lanceolate. Petals heulate, obtuse, slightly recurved. Ovary 
pubescent. Fruiting -peduncies slender, decurved. Capsules $in. diam., 
rounded, tetragonous or 4-lobed, 2-valved; valves woody, granulate.— 
A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) n. 613; Raoul Choix (1846) 48; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. 1 (1853) 24; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 21; T. Kurk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
50; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 50. ee on (iqrelyc. 
Var. cordatum 7’. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iv (1872) 264. — Leaves narrower, 
linear - obovate or obovate-spathulate, acute, gradually narrowed into the petiole. 
Capsules rounded, cordate, acuminate; valves not lobed. 
NorrH Istanp: Not uncommon along the eastern shores, from the North 
Cape to Gisborne. Var. cordatum: Haratoanga, Great Barrier Island, 7. Kirk! 
Septem ber—November. 
Kasily recognized by the many-flowered umbels and roundish 4-lobed capsules. 
I have seen no specimens from the western side of the North Island. 
19. P. Kirkil Hook. f. ec T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 1 (1870) 92.— 
A stout sparingly branched glabrous shrub 4-12 ft. high, often epiphytic ; 
branches stout; bark reddish-purple. Leaves crowded or whorled, 2-5 in. 
long, linear-obovate, obtuse or subacute, very thick and coriaceous, quite 
entire, gradually narrowed into a short stout petiole; margins thickened, 
slightly recurved. Flowers yellow, in termina! 3-10-flowered umbels. 
Sepals lanceolate, acuminate. Petals more than twice as long as the sepals, 
very narrow-linear, acuminate, sharply recurved. Fruiting-peduncles short, 
stout, erect. Capsules large, 1} in. long, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-obovoid, 
2-valved, quite glabrous, cuspidate——Z. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 50; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 59; ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 17. 
: Nortu Istanp: Maungataniwha Ranges, 7. F. C., H. Carse ! between Whangape 
and Hokianga, 7. Kirk! Bay of Islands, A. Cunningham; Whangarei, Buchanan ; 
boMMaungatapere, T. F. C., H. Carse! plateau near Taheke, Petrie / Waipoua Forest, 
jite Cockayne; Great Barrier Island and Omaha, 7. Kirk / Cape Colville Peniieulvs Sen 
: Cabbage Bay and Moehau to Te Aroha Mountain, 7. Kirk, 7. F. C., Adams ! Titirangi 
Is (\ and Waitakerei Ranges, 7. F. C.; Waimarino Plateau, 2. Phillips Turner ; Mount 
bf Egmont Ranges, Adams and 7. F. C. Altitudinal range from 800 to 3000 ft. 
qu December—January. 
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| yr A handsome and well-marked species, which cannot be confounded with any other. 
