Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Leaflets of Western Botany, Vol. 1
This genus of plants consists of trees and shrubs with alter nate or whorled leaves without stipules. The flowers are in the axils of the leaves or in terminal clusters generally sur rounded by the leaves; the sepals, petals, and stamens are five, inserted on the receptacle. The pod is woody, splitting into two, three or, rarely, four valves with the seeds attached to the sides and immersed in a viscid fluid. The genus is widely distributed, being found in the Cape region, South Africa, islands of the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia, Japan, China, India, and Canary Islands. The name is derived from the Greek and means pitch seed; it is pronounced Pittosporum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
