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496 PITTOSPORACEAR. | Pottosporum. 
22. P. eugenioides A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) n. 614.—A small branch- 
ing round-headed tree 20-40 ft. high, perfectly glabrous except a few silky 
hairs on the branches of the inflorescence ; trunk 1-2 ft. diam.; bark pale. 
Leaves alternate or almost whorled, 2-4in. long, elliptical or elliptical- 
oblong, acute or subacute, slightly coriaceous, narrowed into slender petioles 
3-lin. long; margins often undulate. Flowers polygamous or dioecious, 
small, yellowish, in terminal branched many-flowered compound umbels 
or corymbs ; peduncles and pedicels slender, spreading, silky-pubescent. 
Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Petals linear-oblong, spread- 
ing and recurved, more than twice as long as the sepals. Capsules numerous, 
small, {in. long, ovoid, acute, glabrous, 2-3-valved.—Hook, f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
1 (1853) 22; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 21; T. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) 49 ; 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 52 ; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 60. P. elegans 
fiaoul Choix (1846) 25. P. microcarpum Putterlich Syn. Pittosp, (1839) 15. 
ot hee ties ag -. ny Gy. 1G. 121. 
Norra anv Souts Istanps: Common from the North Cape to the south of Otago. 
Tarata. Septem ber—October. Sea-level to 2500 ft. 
The largest of the New Zealand species, and the only one with a compound 
inflorescence. The flowers are highly fragrant, and were formerly mixed by the Maoris 
with fat and used for anointing their bodies. 
23. P. Dallii Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) App.” 1134.— A small 
round-topped tree from 12 to 18 ft. high; trunk sometimes 8 in. diam. ; 
bark of stem and larger branches light-grey. Branchlets stout, often sub- 
whorled, glabrous ; bark reddish. Leaves towards the tips of the branchlets, 
the lower alternate, the upper subopposite or whorled, 2-4 in. long, 4-1} in. 
broad, narrow, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or somewhat 
acuminate, rigidly coriaceous, quite glabrous or the very young ones 
sparingly tomentose, sharply and coarsely serrate ; midrib stout, prominent 
above ; veins finely reticulated; petioles stout, reddish, 4-%in. long. 
Flowers numerous, white, fragrant, arranged in a dense terminal compound 
cyme 1-2in, diam. ; bracts many, deciduous, but conspicuous in the early 
flowering stage ; the lower large, membranous, brownish, oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, often lin. long; the upper gradually becoming smaller and 
narrower ; the uppermost narrow subulate-lanceolate, 44in. long; both 
bracts and pedicels more or less silky-tomentose. Flowers 12 in. long, 
gin. diam. when fully expanded; sepals 4-2 the length of the corolla, 
narrow linear-subulate, attentuate at the tips; petals linear-obovate or 
linear-oblong, obtuse, conspicuously veined. Stamens included; anthers 
rather large, bright-yellow. Ovary shortly stipitate, with very numerous 
ovules to each placenta ; style stout, cylindrical. Capsules forming dense 
clusters at the tips of the branchlets, }in. long, elliptic-oblong, apiculate, 
glabrous, 2-valved ; valves woody. Seeds numerous, immersed in a viscid 
gluten ; often persistent after the fall of the valves as a viscid ball at the 
top of the pedicel—Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvi (1914) 19. 
Ciro. T. 17 ( 1449), 250. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Mountains behind Collingwood, at Specimen Creek and 
Snow’s Valley, near Boulder Lake, alt. 3500 ft., J. Dall/ F. G. Gibbs / January. 
P. Dallii is not closely related to any other species, either in New Zealand or else 
where. It is the only New Zealand species with regularly serrate leaves or white 
flowers, and with the single exception of P. evgenioides none of our species has such 
a well-developed inflorescence. When in flower it must be a very beautiful plant. 
The fragrance of the flowers is another attractive characteristic. P. Dallii appears to 
be rare in its only known habitat, and only a limited number of adult plants have been 
seen. 
