Hymenosporum
(from hymen, a membrane, and sporos, seed; the seeds are girded by membranous wings). ORD. Pittosporeae. A monotypic genus. The species is a greenhouse, evergreen tree, with the habit of Pittosporum (which see, on p. 153, Vol. III., for culture).
H. flavum (yellow). fl. yellow, marked orange-red at the mouth of the tube, showy, in a loose, terminal panicle; sepals distinct; petals connivent in a tube above the middle or sub-coherent, and, as well as the numerous stamens and the ovary, silky-tomentose. April. l. entire, glabrous, broadly obovate-lanceolate, the uppermost ones often somewhat whorled. Eastern Australia. SYN. Pittosporum flavum (B. M. 4799).