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MYOPORUM serratum. 
Saw-leaved Myoporum. 
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TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Myoronacrx. 
MYOPORUM, Banks et Sol. Calyx quinquepartitus, fructifer haud 
mutatus vel parum auctus. Corolla hypogyna, subhypocraterimorpha, tubo 
brevi, amplo, limbo quinquelobo, subæquali. Stamina 4, corollæ tubo in- 
serta, exserta v. inclusa, didynama. Ovarium biloculare loculis collateraliter 
biovulatis, v. quadriloculare, loculis uniovulatis ; ovula pendula, ana- 
tropa. Stylus terminalis; stigma obtusum. Drupa baccata, bilocularis 
v. quadrilocularis, tetrasperma, loculis monospermis v. dispermis. Semina 
inversa. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi ; radicula supera. Frutices in 
Nova Hollandia, imprimis extratropica obvii, in insulis oceani rari; ramulis 
Foliisque novellis sepe fucatis, viscidis foliis alternis v. rarius oppositis, inte- 
gerrimis, serratis, sepe pellucido-punctatis, pedunculis axillaribus fasciculatis, 
raro solitariis, unifforis, ebracteatis, floribus albis v. purpurascentibus, fauce 
sparsim barbata.— Endl. gen. no. 3733. 
M. serratum ; foliis lanceolatis acutissimis serratis ramisque levibus, R. Br. 
Prodr. 372. 
Pogonia tetrandra, Lab. nov. holl. 1. 59. £. 83. 
If this plant had not been figured by Labillardiére, we 
should have entertained a doubt of its being Brown's M. 
serratum, by which name it is known to Mr. Gunn, who has 
distributed an abundance of beautiful dried specimens under 
the number 427. The cause of our doubt would have been 
the number of cells in its ovary ; for they are certainly two, 
both in the wild Tasmannian plant and in that of the gardens; 
but in the arrangement of the learned Botanist who first 
referred the plant to Myoporum, they are stated to be four. 
We have no means of reconciling this discrepancy. 
Mr. Gunn says that the plant is called in the colony 
* Mangrove,” and is very common in the sand close to the 
sea, where it grows in company with Acacia Sophera, and 
Leucopogon Richei. It forms a very close bush from six to 
ten feet high. In cultivation in Tasmannia it becomes a very 
