Myoporum.] VERBENACEAE. 339 
A small Order of 5 Senet: pisimiarae to the southern hemisphere, only 3 or 4 species 
occurting north of the equat 
1. MYOPORUM, Banks & Sol. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla bell- or funnel-shaped, 5-(rarely 6—7-)lobed, 
with lobes subequal or one lobe little larger. Stamens generally 4—5 
(the fifth rudimentary) or rarely 6—7, adnate to the tube and scarcely 
longer than it; anthers reniform vary 2—10-celled. ta obtuse. 
Drupe globose, wit ee seeds. — Shrubs mall trees, 
with alternate, rarely BEEN entire or toothed leaves. A patio fascicu- 
late, axillar 
Natives chiefly of Australia and adjacent islands, with a few or one species each in 
New Zealand, the Mascarenes, China, Japan, the Bonin and Hawaiian Islands. 
1. M. Sandwicense, Gray, in Proc. Am. Ac. VI, 52. — A tree of 20—30 ft. 
height in the aes ee in pe bee eee ee cabins 
Leaves crowde ernate, el 
or oblong, 3—6/ t/o—11]a’, including the eae eases acute at both eriith 
quite entire, ee afin somewhat fleshy, veins then scarcely 
visible. Flowers in clusters of 5—8 on pedicels of 3—5”. Cae x 1—1)/2", 
parted to the base into ovate-lanceolate acute lobes. Corolla white, with 
purplish dots, campanulate, 3—4“‘ long, cleft to the middle into 5, 6 o 
rarely 7 obovate lobes. Stamens as many as lobes, shorter, all He, 
ferous and alike, or two of them a little nanan the others. Anthers 
pendulous, their cells free except at the apex. Style short, incu urved near 
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long as the radicle. — Mann, Enum. no. 364. — Polycoelium Sandwicense, 
A. DC. in Prod. XI, 706. — M. tenuifolium, Hook. & Arn. in Bot 
Pp. 93 (not Forst.). Anther-cells in the younger flowers parallel, with noluted 
bases, in the older ones short divaricate, with obtuse bases. 
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at an elevatio ut 1 ft. 0 ; ne grye 9 prcsaek height, “out 
on Hawa ell as on Maui it exte r the sea, 
dwarfing to a low decumbent shrub. In kai, soe a cohabit do not cumin 
, it seems to be wanting, and in Oahu it is found only on Mt. Kaaia; but on the 
highlands of Kauai a ot uncommon f the «Naeo» or «Naieo 
most so that of t b gra n drying, with an odor resembling that 
ndalwood». A. hmong of 
ost eco 
of sandalwood, ‘whence its English name iieetin Sa: 
the true sandalwood it used to be exported to China for some time as a substitu 
Orper LXIV. VERBENACEAE. 
Flowers irregular or rarely regular. Calyx persistent, truncate, toothed 
or lobed. Corolla with 4, 5 or rarely more lobes, imbricate in the bud, 
nearly equal or more or less bilabiate. Stamens usually 4 in ar in- 
