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Ordo CXLVIII. MYOPORACE^E (1). — Myoporinee Brown 

 p'odr.Jl. nov.-holl. p. 514 [excl. Avicennid, exejusd. gen. 

 rern. p. 34). — Myoporinees Juss. dict. sc. nat. 34 p. 26. 

 — Polygaleae , b, Myoporinece Reich. consp. p. 120 ( excl. 

 Kramerid. — Myoporinse Bartl. ord.p. 176. — Myopora- 

 ceee Lindl. nat. syst. ed. 2p. 279 [excl. Avicennid). — 

 Myoporineee Endl. gen. p. 642, ic. t. 65, 66, 92. — 

 Myoporaceae Lindl. veg. kingd. p. 665 ( excl. Avicennia). 



Calyx persistens , 5-partitus vel rarius 5-fidus , lobis interdum 

 basi imbricatis , eestivatione 5-unciali. Corolla gamopetala, 

 5-loba, subregularis vel varie bilabiata , lobo uno semper antico 

 id est erga axim mflorescentiee exteriore, in eestivatione intimo. 

 Stamina 4 , ssepius exserta , basi corollse inserta , ejus lobis 

 inferioribus alterna , absque vestigio quinti superioris ; 2 infe- 

 rioribus in didynamia majoribus. Antherae lunulata? , apice fila- 

 menti oscillantes , loculis 2 in unum rima unica introrsum dehis- 

 centem confluentibus. Pollen ( ex Myoporis parvifloro et apicu- 

 lato ) ellipsoideum , sulcatum , lseve , tubis ( ex Hassal ann. nat. 

 hist. 9 p. 550 ) tribus. Ovarium toro pingui sine nectario annu- 

 lari aut glandula insidens , liberum , bi- ( in Polycoelio multi- ) 

 loculare , loculis antice et postice sitis , frequenter carpidiorum 

 marginibus e centro introflexis incomplete vel complete in locel- 

 los subdivisis. Ovula e superiore parte, rarius e media, loculorum 

 pendentia , anatropa, micropyle supera ; in Polycoelio 5-8; in 

 omnibus fere aliis aut4, nempe 1 in quaque sudivisione locu- 

 lorum, aut 2 , nempe 1 in utroque loculo ; in Bontia 8 , nempe 

 2 in locellis superposita. Stylus terminalis, apice simplex 

 vel rarius bifidus. Drupa parva , baccata vel fere exsucca, puta- 

 mine ( Polycoelio excepto ) biloculari , sa3pe replis carpidiorum 

 incrassatis aut extensis incomplete vel complete 4-locularis , pro 

 numero ovulorum 8-4-2-sperma. Semina inversa, oblonga ; 

 albumine carnoso, parco. Embryo in axi albuminis, ejusdem 

 fere longitudinis , teres ; radicula supera; cotyledonibus plano- 

 convexis, o"blongis, radicujam subsequantibus. — Suffrutices , 

 frutices , rarissime arbuseulae , e Nova, Hollandia pleraque indi- 

 gena, etiam ex aliis insulis Oceani Pacifici, unico genere (Bbn- 

 tia ) ex insulis Americanis Caribaeis ! Folia alterna , rarius oppo- 

 sita , simplicia, integra vel dentata, plerumque glandulis resi- 

 nosis conspersa. Stipulee nullee. Flores axillares, albi , flavi vel 

 rubri , nunquam vero ccerulei , pedicellis solitariis , binis pluri- 

 busve ex eadem axilla , seepe uno altero in axilla superposito, 



(0 Auciore Alph. de Candolle , manuscriptis paternis quoad spec. Myopori el genus 

 Ercmodendron adbibilis. 



