Sotanea.] flora or Tasmania. 
binatis; foliis plerisque alternis, pellucido-punctatk ; pedunculis solitarii* fascia 
barbata. 
About thirty Australian species of Myoportnn arc known ; all arc erect or Mibcr.vi shrubs, with alternati 
and with the young branches and leaves often covered with a viscid Mention &©■ pellucid glands. — Fiotce 
out bracts, axillary, peduncled, solitary or fascicled. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla -;\)\<y--}... 
obliquely five-lobed, bearded at the throat. Stamens four, didynamous. Ovary two- or four-celled | od 
two, each two-seeded, when four, each one-seeded. Style erect, with a simple itigm*. Drupv with two- 
celled nuts, with albuminous, pendulous seeds. (Name from fiv<a, to shut, and Tropos, a , 
glands of the foliage.) 
1. Myoporum Tasmanicum (DC. Prodr. 709); erectum, glaberrimum, ramulis son viscid 
petiolatis lanceolatis obovato-lanceola'- acuminatis v. acutis v. rotundatis cum 
integerrimis v. ultra medium serrulatis, corolla intus tomeutosa, drupa 2-3-loculari. 
Var. a; foliis majoribus 1-1^-pollicaribus obovato-lanceolatis spathulatisvc acutis v. apiculal 
gerrimis. — M. ellipticum, Br J Prodr. 515. 
Yar. j3 ; foliis majoribus l-l|-pollicaribus lanceolatis ac nmina t M ultra dm dram 
lari.— M. serratum, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. 1845. t. 15, an M. serratum, Br.? L c, r. M. insular. , Br 
Var. y; foliis minoribus |-l-uncialibus lanceolatis acuminatis vix srrnihiti-. 
tuberculatum, Br J Prodr. I. c. 
Hab. Var. a and (3. Abundant on the north coasts of the Island, in sand mar the sea. 
Flinders' Island.— (Fl. Jan.) 
Disteib. Coasts of Australia, from the tropics, on the east coast, to Swan Km t. 
Gunn does not distinguish at all between the vars. a and fl and prohahK they were <ratherc< troni 
nor would I have separated them as varieties but to draw attention to their pOMlhu identification wit 1 
plants. The var. y Gunn thinks undoubtedly the same speck*. 1 find specimens from various parts oi tl 
of extratropical Australia agreeing with all these forms, but still none of them perfectly tal \ wit 1 now 
tiou; thus var. a differs from his M. ellipticum in the leaves being sometimes ■cnate; wn. p from M. 
in the drupe being only bilocular, and from M insulare in that character, and in the yom 
and from M. adscendens in the branches not being diffuse; var. y differs from M. tuiercutatm* in the k 
being covered with tuberculated glands as the branches are. On the other hand not one of these charactr 
probably very variously developed, according to season, age, 1 
sometimes reduced to three, and sometimes even to one; and the habit of the species is 
able. It is also far too nearly allied to the New Zealand J/, insulare. Forst.—Gmm de 
dome-shaped bush, 6-10 feet high, with white flowers, speckled with purple and blue X3 
Nat. Ord. LVIII. SOLAMJ- 
This eminently tropical Order has many (thirty or forty) species in Northern A 
widely distributed Indian and Polynesian plants; there are also a few extratropu 
larger number belong to the genus Solanum itself, the only other genera being A, 
or three truly indigenous and some naturalized species; Lycium, with one spec 
PAysalis, of which several South American kinds are naturalized, and especia 
Gooseberry/' P. Peruviana ? 
Gen. I. SOLANUM, L. 
Calyx 5-4-fidus. Corolla rotata, raro campanula, 5-4-fida, limbo plicato. 
