PITTOSPORUM tomentosum.
Woolly-leaved Pittosporum.
Linnean Class and Order. PENTANDRIA MONO GY NIA.
Natural Order. PITTOSPOREiE. DC. prodr. I. p. 345. Supra fol. 25.
PITTOSPORUM. Supra fol. 25.
P. tomentosum, foliis obovali-oblongis ntrinque acntis planis superne glabris: subtus
ramisque pubescenti-tomentosis, floribus adgregato-paniculatis, pedicellis glabri-
usculis, calycibus acutis erectis, corollo cylindrico.
Pittosporum tomentosum. Bonpl. nan. t. 21. DC. prodr. 1. p. 346.
A handsome bushy evergreen Shrub: branches erect or a
little spreading, thickly clothed with a dense tomentum. Leaves
alternate, crowded at the points of the branches, flat or but very
slightly undulate, obovally oblong, the broadest part uppermost,
acute at both ends, upper side smooth, and a little glossy, of a
yellowish green, underneath clothed with a soft dense rusty-grey
tomentum, the nerves pinnately branched, and obscurely reticulate
: young leaves slightly tomentose on the upper side, which
soon wears off. Petioles short, densely tomentose, flat on the
upper side and rounded on the lower. Flowers nodding, terminal,
and sometimes axillary as in our specimens, which is occasioned
by the strength of the plants, crowded in a sort of nodding
cyme or panicle, scentless, the mean stem of the panicle
densely clothed with rusty coloured wool. Bractes subulate,
woolly, about the length of the pedicles. Pedicles nearly
smooth, or but slightly pubescent, light green. Calyx of 5 sepals,
which are erect, lanceolate, acute, broad at the base,
slightly keeled, pubescent. Petals 5, cream-coloured, united
into a nearly cylindrical striated tube, the points roundly oval,
obtuse, spreading or slightly reflexed. Stamens 5, inserted in
the receptacle, alternate with the petals, to which they adhere
by their back : filaments smooth, attached to the back of the
anthers, which are 2 lobed and exserted a little: pollen pale
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