to iy « Recherche Bay. B . lougi/lcra. is a yery variable plant, and this may be only a variety o f it.” The latter
remark impUes that the specimens were gathered close to where Lahfflardiere gathered his B . hngijlora. To me the
species seems very distinct, in the ve iy long ( l ^ l j inch) flowers, broad large sepals, long very bhmt petals, and
pubescent ovaries, which would apparently become lengthened into cylinelricai h em e s; the ovary is also more
distinctly two-celled than in B. longiflora.
Gen. I I . P IT T O S PO R UM , ^______
S e p a la 5 . P e ta la 5 , in tu b um conniventia, apicibus recurvis. S tam in a 5 . Ovarium 2 -5 -lo cu la r e .
O v id a plurima, semiseptorum marginibus inserta. Capsula compressa, incomplete 2 -5 - lo c u la r is ; va lv is
lig n o sis v . coriaceis. Semina plurima v . pauca, majuscula, in globum ope pulpo resinoso plerumque cong
lobata. Embryo minimus, in albumine duro.— Frú tice s v . arborea p le rum q u e ere c ti, ramosi ; fo liis p e r s is -
ten tibu s coriaceis.
The maximum o f this g enus w ill probably be found to be in the Pacific Islan d s; upwards o f a dozen Australian
species are known, and there are ten in New Zealand; aU form shrubs or trees, with alternate, generally coriaceous
leaves.— Flowers pedunculated, solitary or fascicled or corjinbose. Sepals five. Petals five, deciduous, forming
a campanulate corolla. Stameiis five. Ovajy two- to five-eeUed, with nmnerous ovules. Fruit a dry, woody,
generally two-valved, two-celled capsule. Seeds numerous, angular, imbedded in a viscous gum exuded from the
walls o f the valves. Embryo minute, in horny albumen. (Name from wtrra, p itch, and (nopoi, a seed; in allusion
to the gummy secretion surrounding the seeds.)
1 . Pittosporum bicolor (H o ok . B o t. J o um . i. 2 4 9 ) ; polymiorpbum, ramuRs v illosis, foliis p lu s minus
coriaceis anguste linearibus v. lineari-oblongis obtusis acutis acuminatisve p lu s m inusve crasse coriaceis
marginibus valde v. v ix recurvis subtus pube v . v illo albido v . rufescente instruc tis, pedice llis tomentosis
e longatis brevibosve solitariis v . corymboso-fasciculatis, floribus flavis rufescentibusve, capsulis rotundatis
pubesc entibus. {Gunn, 1 5 4 , 6 5 0 , 6 5 1 .)
Hab. T h roughout the Islan d , abundant in damp ravines, ascending to 4000 fe et, Cunningham, e tc.—
(FI. Oct. D e c .) {v, V.)
D istbib. S outh-eastern Australia.
One of the most variable plants in the Island, forming, in low grounds, a tree 3 0 ^ 0 feet high, with a tnmk
a foot and more in diameter, but gradually becoming a stunted scrubby bush on ascending the mountains. The
changes of habit and characters on ascending are so gradual that I cannot rigidly define the varieties, o f which the following
are the best m a r k e d o n low ground, branches lax, twiggy, with spreading, fiat, hnear-obovate or oblong
leaves, 1^ -2 inches long, with slightly revolute margins and silvery-grey down beneath: on ascending, the branches
become short, rigid, robust, erect, leaves densely crowded, erect, shorter, blimter, rigidly coriaceous, margins vei-y
revolute, clothed below w ith femiginous silky and villous hairs.— Flowers in corymbs, with slender, nodding peduncles,
1 inch long, in low situations; sohtary, or few together, with short rigid peduncles, in alpine places. Peduncles
more or less villous. Sepals ovate, acute. FetaU nearly i inch long, yellow or reddish, with recurved apices.
Capsules nearly globose, inch across, two-valved, two-celled. Seeds about ten in each valve, imbedded in a
viscid oily red pulp.
Gen. I I I . B U R SA R IA , Cav.
S ep a la 5 , patentia. P e ta la 5 , oblonga v. lanceolata, patentia. S tam in a 5 , patentia. Ovarium in complete
2-loculare. Ovula pauca, semiseptorum marginibus inserta. S ty lu s brevis. Capsula compressa,
obcordata, incomple te 2-locularis, apice lo cu licid e 2 -v a lv is ; v a lv is 1 -2 -sp e rm is . Semima reniformia, um-
b ilico ventrali. Embryo in basi albuminis duri.— F rútices, arbusculee, v . suffruticuli imermes v . i '
foliis polym orph is.
The are aU eriratropical Australian plants, o f whioh only three or four species are knorai, ah highly
polymorphous.— Smah undershrabs, shrubs, or small trees, spinous or unarmed. Leaves coriaceous, variable.
F lm e r s corymbose. Sepals, petals, aud stamem 6, aU spreading. Ova,;j incompietel, biloeular ; ovuks few, inserted
on tho dissepiments. Capsuk ohcordate, compressed, dehiscing at the apex. SeeA few. (Named from bursa a
pouch; in aUusion to the form o f the capsules.)
1. Bursaria spinosa {Cav. Ic . iv. t , 3 6 0 ) ; fo liis late obovatis lanceolatis liiieari-obovatis lineari-
e longatisve apice büobis re tusis obtusis rotundatisve acutis acuminatisve subtus plus minus glancesceutibus,
floribus pedunculatis subsolitariis fasciculatis v , varie in corymbos panicnlasve contractos effusosve d ispositis’
sepalis parvis caducissimis, capsulis transverse oblongis obcordatisve apice troncato retuso.— ÆC F ro d r i
8 4 7 ; / l o o k B o t. J o um . i. 2 4 9 , Comp. B o t. M a g . i. 2 7 5 . I te a spinosa, A n d r . B o t. B e p . f. 3 1 4 . Oyrilh
spinosa, Spreng. N o v . P r o r . 1 6 ? [f id . B C .) [G-aun, 1 5 .)
H a b . T h roughout th e Islan d , abundant, Ounnmgliam, etc.— (H . N o v . Jan.) [v. v.)
Distkib. Extratropical Eastern and Southern Australia. (Cultivated in England.)
An extremely abundant shrub or smafl tree, attaining 3 0 -4 0 feet in height, with a trunk three feet in circum-
ferenee, altcnng m habit, foliage, and Inflorescence as it grows older, and altogether p o lp n o ip h o u s .-® ™ u named
or with short lateral branches becoming metamorphosed info pungent spines; branches glahrous or pubescent’
Leaves i - l i meh long, narrow or broad, linear, or oblong, or obovate, or lanceolate, broadest at the middle or
towards the apex, which is romided, entire, bifld, emarginate. aente or aeuniinate, under snrface green or glaucous
or sflveiy, more or less eorinceons. Mowers mimerons, white, i inch across, soKtaiy, or generally disposed in
branching paineles. Sepals transversely oblong or ohcordate, broivn, thy, coriaceons, transversely ivrinkled ndtli a
broadly notched or tnmeate apex. Seeds few. enveloped in a viscid g u m . - I f is diflieult to conceive a more polv-
morphous plant than this.
2 . Bursaria procumbens (PntterHch, Synops, K tto sp . p. 1 9 ) ; pusüla, procumbens, snbherbacea,
ramis prostratis asc endentibnsve pubesc entibus, foliis linearibns lineari-oblongisve obtnsis acutis mucrona-’
tis aristatisve pnberuHs v , glabratis integerrimis v . apice lobatis dentatisve planis v. marginibns revolutis
floribns versus apices ramnlomm solitariis fasciculatisve, pedicelbs folio æquilongis brevioribusve rarius’
longioribus, sepalis petalis - ) - a brevioribus, capsidis rotundato-subquadratis polyspermis, semimbus grosse
ru g o so -tn b e r cu la tis .-P itto sp o rum procumbens e t P . nauuin. H o o k Comp. B o t. M a g . i, 2 7 6 ; Nob. in Journ
B o t. ii. 4 0 9 . Ehytidospornm procumbens e t Stnartianum, F. M u lle r , Cat. P la n t. F k to r ia . [Cunn,
15], 6 1 7 .) ’
H a b . Common on sandy plains throughout tb e Islan d .— (P i. Oct. D e c .) [it. v .)
Distbib. N ew Sou th W a le s and South-eastern Australia.
A common and variable httle w eedy slmibhy-slemmed plant, forming spreading procumbent patches, with stems
3 -8 inches long, closely covered wnth leaves. Tnriahle in sise, habit, and foK a g e .-® a » > and foHage more or less
pnbcscent. Leaves coriaceons. curved, spreading or secimd, q - l inch long, linear or hnear-oblong, blnnt, acute,
acuminate or aristate, and abnost pungent, quite entire, or lobed. or trifid towards the apex. Flowers a’x ih a n ’
solitary, towards the ends o f the branches, white or pink, i inch across. SqtaU snbnlate, half os long as the oblong
or elKptic-lanceolate petals. Ovarg oblong, two-celled, with two rows o f axile ovnles in each cell. Capsule roimded”
membranous, transversely wrinkled, turgid, obscurely fonr-lobed, two-eelled. wdtli six to eight oMong-reniform seedé
in each cell; testa rather coriaceons and spongy, tnbercled and rugose.— F. Miffler has founded a genus on the
character of the seeds o t this httle plant ; bnt though so different in habit from B. spinosa, it appears to me clearly a
congener of that plant. The leaves are both entire and lobed and toothed on the same specimen, and I do not
And any other character bat the more toothed leaves, whereby to distinguish the Blgtidcsporum Sluartiamtm. o f F.
Müller. I t docs not appenr to me that the Bursaria diosmoides, Putterhch, is the same species, as suggested by
Walpers (Report, i. 255, sub Pittosporum nanum). *