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Pholidia. | XC. MYOPORINEJE. 15 
than the calyx, the putamen thick and long, 4-celled, with 1 seed in 
each cell.— Eremophila pd F. Muell. Herb. 
W. Australia. Herb. F. Mu 
9. P. santalina, F. Muell. vim emm EAM shrub of several 
feet, dighüy. glandaar-vorrucose, Lea arrow lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, entire, narrowed into a rather lon petiole, rar thick, 14 to 2 in. 
lo : discat icels usually of 
about j em ug under the flower. ‘alyx- ents narrow 
lines long, t er ones ovate, , with short recurved 
(c. or almost obtuse, the 2 uppermost of them ascending, th e 
wer lobe twice as broad as the others. Stamens included, didynamous. 
Ovary glabrous, 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. Drupe succulent, 
the putamen more or less T 4-celled, with 1 seed in each cell, 
or more frequently reduc éd by. abortion to 1 or 2 cells and seeds.— 
Pholidiopsis santalina, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 429; Eremophila san- 
talina, F. Muell. in Proc. R. Soc. Tasm. iii. 295. 
S. Australia. Rocky hills near Cudnaka, F. Mueller 
This d qus ds dh the others of the genus in Pits elongated pedicels, like 
those of Myop e; however, solitary, and the calyx, corolla, and ovary are 
those of Phokdia pite init of Myoporum or Eremophi Lila. 
3. EREMOPHILA, R. Br. 
(Stenochilus, R. Br. Eremodendron, DC.) 
Daiya divided to the base into 5.s segments or rarely 5-lobed, often 
but not always enlarged after flowering. Corolla-tube usually broad 
from the base or constricted above the ovary, more or less elongated and 
incurved, ve avc e the cylindrigs ’ base = Pholidia, the limb 
o pped, 5-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, often exserted. 
sii 2- balled. with re or 3 supe rposed pairs of eves d in au: cell, of 
however, the lower pairs remain usually unfecundated, or in a 
putamens separating into 4 1-seeded vents 1 a Lue with one seed 
in each cell, or fewer cells iud qe on.—Shrubs. Leaves 
alternate or scattered. Flowers solitat ^ dte na few —_ several 
together in the axils, usually pedicellate, P ithout bracts 
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ever, different, and there are alway either the superposed ovules or the enlarged fruiting 
calyx, and often the succulent fruit, to distinguish hi ia. On the other hand, the 
five sections into which I have divided Eremophila may perhaps one day be admitted 
a8 genera, which I have been unwilling to do whilst the ripe fruit of so many species 
is 8 unknown, especially as there appears to be a greater proportion of intermediate s P icm 
between them than between the d Myoporineous genera here adop ueller 
