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A tree, 20-40 feet high ; trunk slender. Leaves something like those of the Tea-plant, but quite entire, 1-2
inches long, broadly oblong or elliptic-obovate, bright green above, pale below and veined, translucent, waved, on
petioles 2 lines long, quite smooth, or downy along the midrib. Flotoei-s solitary, axillary, purplish, on curved,
downy peduncles longer than the petioles. Sepals linear-oblong, silky or smooth. Petals purplish, 4-5 hues long.
Capsules 3-7 lines long, nearly as broad, velvety when young, smooth and granulated when old, constnoted .it the
base, woody, usually three-valved; valves woody, transversely wrinkled inside, broadly obovate. Seeds small, black.
2. Pittosporum Colensoi, Hook, ffi.; arboreum, glaberrimum, foliis petiolatis coriaceis elliptico-v.
obovato-oblougis acutis super lucidis subter pallidioribus, floribus solitariis axillaribus, pedunculis petiolo
brevioribus, bracteis concavis coriaceis glaberrimis v. obscure ciliatis, sepalis lineari-oblongis subacutis
tubum corolliB ¡equantibus, petalis fructuque ut in P. tenuifolio. P. viride et P. uniflorum, Col. MSS.
Ha b . Northern Island, in tbe interior, and Middle Island; Taupo Lake, and base of Tongariro,
Dieffenhach, Colenso. Chalky Bay, Lyall.
A. small tree, 10-12 feet high, too closely allied to P. temiifoliuni to require any detailed description; differing
chiefly in the larger, more acute, very coriaceous leaves, the more persistent glabrous hracte®, shorter peduncle,
smaller flower, and rounder fruit.
3. Pittosporum obcordatum, Raotil; arbuscula, ramis divaricatis glabris, foliis parvis remotis bre-
vissime petiolatis obcordatis orbiculatisve glaberrimis, floribus axillaribus solitariis rarius geminis, pednn-
culis puberulis petiolo ®quilongis, sepalis lanceolato-subulatis, petalis lineari-lanceolatis, ovario pubeseente.
Baoul, Choix de Flantes, p . 24. t. 25.
Hab. Middle Island; Akaroa in shady woods, Raoul. Nat. name, “ Cohou-Cohou," Raoul.
I have a specimen of this from its discoverer, M. Raoul: it presents some peculiarities in form and habit
shared by various New Zealand plants of very different genera, which are not easily distinguished from it, and from
one another, by the leaf alone, at first sight; such are Melicytus micranthus, Panax a^xomalum, and a state of
Alseuosmia Baiiksii.— A small tree or shrub. Leaves 2-3 lines long, very small and scattered, solitary or two or
three together, rounded or obcordate, sometimes three-lobed, contracted at the base into a very short petiole, quite
smooth. Flowers inconspicuous, ou pedicels as long as the petioles, generally soUtary and axillary, white. Sepals
and petals very slender. Fruit unknown.
4. Pittosporum riyidum. Hook. fil.; frutes lignosus, glaberrimus, ramis tortuosis crassis, foliis alternis
fasciculatisve brevissime petiolatis crassis coriaceis lineari-obovatis obtusis integerrimis v. sinuato-dentatis,
floribus axillaribus solitariis brevissime pedicellatis, sepalis 0 ? v. 5 parvis ovatis obtusis ciliatis, petalis lineari-
oblongis subacutis, ovario pubeseente 2-loculari, capsula compressa late ovato-cordata acuta 2-valvi. T a b . X .
H a b . Northern aud Middle Islands; mountains near Waikare Lake, and Ruahine mountains, Colenso.
Nelson, Bidwill.
A very rigid, woody shrub, with stout spreading branches, and small, very thick, shining leaves, which are
often sinuato-dentate in the young state, exactly as in the Panax anomalum. Leaves on short petioles, 4 inch long,
narrow, obovate, cuneate, or elliptical, oblong, blunt, shining, the margin recurved. Flowers axillary, solitary, on
very short downy pedicels. Calyx when present very small; I can find none in some of my specimens. Petals
dingy purple, nearly as long as the leaves. Capsules downy when young, smooth and granulated when old, broadly
cordate, suddenly narrowed into tbe style, and hence acuminated; valves furrowed down the back; seeds numerous.—
A very curious species, on account of the leaves and the small calyx.—P l a t e X. Pig. 1 , flower; 2 , stamen
; 3, ovarium ; 4, tbe same cut transversely; 5, capsule :—all magnified.
** Flowers axillary or terminal, three or more together, or umbellate or panicled.
5. Pittosporum eugenioides, A. Cunn.; glaberrimum, polygamo-dioicum, foliis petiolatis cllipticis
elUptico-lanceolatisve acuminatis marginibus undulatis superne nitidis subter pallidis, venis plurimis patentibus
pellucidis, pedunculis (masculis gracilibus) terminalibus bracliiatis subtricbotome ramosis, pedicellis
corymbosis multifloris puberulis, sepalis subulatis, petalis linearibus, antheris exsertis, capsulis parvis late
cllipticis acuminatis 2-valvis, valvis crassis Hgnosis. A. Cunn. Prodr. P. elegans, Raoul, Choix de Plantes,
p. 25?
H a b . Northern and Middle Islands, in woods; Bay of Islands, Cunningham, etc. Akaroa, Raoul.
A small tree, smooth everywhere, except the inflorescence. Leaves 2-4 inches long, on petioles 4-4 inch,
usually elliptical and narrow, often broader and almost obovate; the margins undulated; lateral nerves numerous,
diverging in parallel curved lines. Bractea at the base of the teminal peduncle, numerous, linear, blunt, ciliated,
forming a large bud 4 inch long in spring. Inflorescence the most conspicuous of New Zealand species, perhaps
wholly dioecious, very variable in size, pubescent. Peduncle short, vnth. diverging branches, which are again divided,
and bear umbels of six to eight yellow flowers. Pedicels of the sterile ? flowers slender. Sepals one-third the length
of the flower, subulate. Petals linear, narrow, recurved. Stamens with slender filaments; the anthers bright yellow
and exserted. Capsules in large clusters, larger than a pepper-corn, black, smooth or granulated, broadly ovate and
compressed, contracted below, acuminate at the point, two-valved, with a thickened rim along the line of suture;
valves very thick and woody; seeds few.—I find some specimens with the flowers much smaller, stamens shorter,
and pedicels stouter, indicating the species to be spuriously dicecious, the anthers of these latter flowers having
little pollen; the flowers again with large anthers, long filaments, and slender peduncles and pedicels, though they
have ovaria, appear to wither without ripening fruit. Prom M. Raoul’s description, his P. elegans appears to be
this plant, differing only in the capsules being thi-ee-valved occasionally; but in the absence of specimens, I cannot
speak decisively. Mr. Colenso considers this plant dio3cious.
6. Pittosporum cornifolkm, A. Cunn.; polygamo-dioicum, frutex virgatus, glaberrimus, s®pissime
epiphyticus, foliis breve petiolatis obovato-lanceolatis ellipticisve acutis supremis verticillatis, floribus termi-
ualibus, pedicellis pubescentibus subumbellatis v. pedúnculo communi sessilibus fl. ^ gracilibus ? robustis
brevioribus, sepalis anguste lineari-subulatis, petalis anguste ligulatis longe acuminatis, capsula coriácea
compressa obovato-ohlonga v. late obcordata 2-valvi, seminibus paucis magnis atris. A. Cunn. in Bot.
Mag. t. 3161. et Prodr. Fl. N. Zeal. Pittosporoides verticiHata, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic.
Ha b . Northern Island; Bay of Islands, A, Cunn. East coast. Banks and Solander. Nat. name,
“ Karo," Colenso; “ Auct. ( (Cultivated in England.)
A slender shrub, 2-4 feet high, and always growing epiphytically on the trunks and limbs of lofty forest-trees,
sparingly branched; branches slender, ultimate sometimes pubescent. Leaves 1-2 inches long; upper verticillate,
broadly lanceolate or elliptical, acute, on short petioles, quite smooth, shiuing, coriaceous. Flotcers on long pedicels
(male 4-1. female 4-4 i^^k long), which are a little hairy, and are sessile on the ends of the branches, or attached
to a common peduncle, sometimes an inch long. Flowers dingy red, \ line long. Sepah very narrow, subulate, one-
third shorter than the equally narrow petals, which terminate in two long slender points. Fruit size of a small
nut, compressed, broadly oblong or somewhat heart-shaped; valves yellow and wrinkled inside; seeds large, black.
7. Pittosporum crassifolium, Banks et S o l ; frutex erectus, ramis foliisque subter velutino-tomentosis
albidis, foliis breve petiolatis crasse coriaceis obovatis v. lineari-oblongis obtusis marginibus recurvis,
pedicellis cams tomentosisve terminalibus v. in pedunculum communem aggregatis rarius solitariis, sepalis
ovato-lanceolatis acutis tomentosis, petalis lineari-oblongis, fructibus magnis rarius parvis cano-tomentosis
trigono-sphxricis 3-valvis rarius 2-valvis compressis, valvis lignosis, seminibus mediocribus atris. A. Cunn.
Prodr.
Ha b . Northern Island, not unfrequent, Banks and Solander, Cunningham, etc. Nat. name, “ Tarata,"
R. Cunningham.