PITTOSPORUM fulvum.
Tawny Pittosporum.
Linnean Class and Order. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. PITTOSPOREjE. Brown gen. rem. ter. aust. p. 10.
Calyx 5-sepalus deciduus, sepalis nunc liberis nunc ad medium coalitis, aestiva-
tione imbricate. Petala 5, hypogyna, unguibus conniventibus interdum cohaerentibus,
laminis patulis aestivatione imbricatis. Stamina 5 hypogyna, distincta, cum petalis
alternantia. Ovarium 1 liberum, loculis placentisve 2-5 polyspermia. Stylus 1. Stigmata
numero placentarum. Pericarpium capsulare vel baccatum, loculis polyspermia
quanddque incompletis. Semina saepd pulpa glutinosS. obducta. Embryo minutus,
prope umbilicum, in albuminc carnoso inclusus, dicotyledoneus, radicula longiusculit,
cotyledonibus brevissimis.—Frutices vel Arbusculae Africaner, Asiatics aut plerceque
Australasicce. Folia simplicia, alterna, exstipulata, penninervia, scepius integra. Flores
terminates vel axillares, interdilmpolygami. DC. prodr. p. 345.
PITTOSPORUM. Calyx 5-sepalus. Petala 5 unguibus in tubum conniventibus.
Capsula 2-3-valvis, 1-locularis, valvis medio septiferis. Semina pulpit resinosi ob-
dneta.—Frutices foliis integris persistentibus. DC. prodr. 1. p. 346.
P. fulvum, foliis late lanceolatis oblongisve obtusis: junioribus utrinque tomentosis;
adultis glabris reticulatis in petiolis et per nervos tomentosis, ramis ferrugineo-to-
mentosis.pedunculis adgregatis, calycibus patulis.
Pittosporum fulvum. Rudge in Linn, trans. 10. p. 29S. t. 20. DC. prodr. 1. p.346. Rcem.
et Schult. syst. 5. p. 431.
A dwarf spreading evergreen shrub. Branches slender, when
young clothed with a dense ferruginous tomentum, which wears
off by age, the upper and lower part of the branch leafy, but
between the joints naked, or only an attempt at leaves. Leaves
oblong or broadly lanceolate, more or less obtuse, undulate,
scattered, alternate or in whorls, upper ones crowded, clothed
with a thick browm tomentum on both sides, broader and flatter
than those below; lower ones smooth on both sides, reticu-
lately veined, the nerves only pubescent; middle ones smooth
on the upper side, and ferruginously pubescent underneath. Petioles short, thickest at the base, densely clothed with brown
wool. Flowers pale yellow, pendulous, crowded in a terminal
corymbose raceme, 9 to each of the perfect specimens that we
have examined. Peduncle densely clothed with a rusty brown
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