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" Mi/opm'-huB with the exception of Bontia, a genus of 

 " equinoctial America; and of two species of Myopobum 

 " found in the Sandwich Islands, has hitherto been observed 

 " only in the Soathern hemisphere, and yet neither in South 

 " Africa, nor in South America beyond the tropic. Its 

 " maximum is evidently in the principal parallel of Terra 

 " Australis, in every part of which it exists ; in the more 

 southern parts of New Holland, and even in Van Diemen's 

 Island it is more frequent than within the tropic. The 

 genus Myopobum is also found in New Zealand, Norfolk 

 ** Island, New Caledonia, and the Society Islands." 



Stenochilus, like the whole order, consists of shrubs. 

 Two species only are recorded ; and both observed by 

 Mr. Brown on the South East Coast of New Holland. 

 Another is known to have been found on the Western coast 

 of the same continent by M. Leschenault, the naturalist of 

 the expedition under Capt^n Baudin; and we have heard 

 that a fourth from the interior of the same country is now 

 in our gardens. 



Glaher was introduced in 1803 by Mr. Peter Good, 

 and was drawn this summer in the greenhouse at the 

 nursery of Messrs. Colvill in the King's Road, Chelsea; 

 where it flowers for a long time in succession. 



The following is a version of Mr. Brown's character of 

 Stenochilus. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla ringent; upper lip 

 upright, half4cleft ; lower undivided, narrow, deflex. Sta^ 

 mens protruding. Gcrmen 4-cellecI, cells single-seeded; 

 Stigma obtuse, undivided. Drupe (strnie-fruit) berried, 4- 

 celled. Seeds solitary. Shrub nearly smooth, or else of a 

 greyish hue proceeding from a very fine cottony fur. Leaves 

 alternate, generally entire, unmarked by veins. Peduncles 

 solitary, one-flowered, without bractes. Flowers either 

 purple or deep yellow. The stone of the fiTiit miscarrying 

 of two of its cells, is often only bilocular, instead of qua- 

 drilocular. 



