Pittosporum. | PITTOSPORACEAE, 495 
90. P. eornifolium A. Cunn. Bot. Mag. (1832) t. 3161.—A slender 
sparingly branched shrub 2-5 ft. high, usually growing as an epiphyte on 
the trunks or branches of forest-trees, more rarely on rocks, never truly 
terrestrial. Branches forked or whorled, glabrous, or the younger ones 
silky-pubescent. Leaves whorled, 14-23 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate or 
elliptic - obovate, acute, coriaceous, quite entire, clabrous ; petioles very 
short. Flowers polygamous or dioecious, in 3-5-flowered terminal umbels ; 
female umbels 1—3-flowered, smaller and on shorter peduncles. Sepals 
linear-subulate. Petals much longer, subulate-lanceolate, broad at the 
base and then narrowed into long acuminate points. Capsules erect or 
inclined, }in. diam., broadly ovoid or obovoid, 3-valved; valves orange- 
yellow inside.—A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) n. 616 ; Raoul Choix (1846) 48 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 23; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 21 ; T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 49; Cheesem. Man. N.Z, Fl. (1906) 59. 
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Norte Isuanp: From the North Cape a Why )s Pbundant in the north, 
often local to the south of Hawke’s Bay. Kaprtt Isnanp: B. C. Aston, SovuTH 
IstaAnp: Pelorus Sound and Titi Island, J. Rutland! West Wanganui Inlet, B. C. 
Aston ! Sea-level to 2000 ft. June—September. 
This is a common plant in the forests of the Auckland District, growing inter- 
mixed with other epiphytes on the trunks and branches of the rata (Metrostderos robusta) 
and other large forest-trees. 
21. P, pimeleoides R. Cunn. ex A. Ounn. Precur. (1839) n. 618.— 
A small slender much-branched shrub 1-5 ft. in height ; branchlets usually 
numerous, almost filiform, pilose when young. Leaves numerous, crowded 
or whorled, very variable in size and shape, $1} in. long, #5-}in. broad, 
linear-lanceolate to linear-oblong, acute or acuminate, rarely obluse, entire 
or rarely obscurely crenulate, patent or reflexed, somewhat membranous. 
Flowers small, yellow-red, in terminal 2-8-flowered umbels or solitary, 
unisexual; males larger, more numerous, and on longer peduncles than 
the females; peduncles slender, silky-pilose. Sepals subulate, acuminate. 
Petals more than twice as long as the sepals, very narrow-linear, acuminate. 
Ovary silky. Capsules on short erect peduncles, ovoid, acuminate, almost 
beaked, 2-valved.—Raoul Choix (1846) 48; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 
24; Handb. N.Z. Fl. i (1864) 21; T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 49; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 60. P. crenulatum Putterlich Syn. Pittosp. 
(1839) 15. 
Var. major Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 60.—Branches few, slender. Leaves in 
distant whorls, elliptical or elliptical-obovate, ?-l4in. long, }in. broad. Capsule 
rather larger. 
Var. reflexum Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 24.—Leaves smaller, crowded, linear 
or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 4,-} in. broad.—P. reflexum R. Cunn. l.c.n. 617; Hook. 
f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 19. P. radicans R. Cunn, lc. n. 619. P. Gillhesianum 7. Kirk 
in Trans. N.Z. Inst. i (1868) 148. 
Nortu Istanp: North Cape (var. major), T. F. C.; near Mangonui, 7’. Kirk ! 
T. F. C., R. H. Matthews! Whangaroa, R. Cunningham; Kawakawa River, Bay of 
Islands, R. Cunningham, Sir J. D. Hooker, T. Kirk ! March—May. 
Easily recognized by its small size and slender habit, narrow leaves, terminat 
umbels of yellow-red flowers, and small-beaked capsules, Notwithstanding the opinion 
expressed in the first edition of this work, I am now inclined to think that Cunning- 
_ham’s P. reflexum will ultimately be re-established as a species. I much regret, too, 
that no further material has been obtained of my var. major, which also may prove 
to be distinct. It may probably answer to Cunningham’s P. cornifolium var, b. 
