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CoEOLLA monopetalous, hypogynous, irregular or sub-regular, anisostemonous. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted on the corolla. Ovart 2-4i-celled ; ovules pendu- 

 lous, anatropous. Feuit a drupe, cells 1-4-seeded. Embeto straight, albwminous ', 

 EADiCLE superior, 



. Shettbs or UNDEESHETTES. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple, entire or 

 toothed, usually studded with resinous glands, exstipulate. Flowees 5 , axillary ; 

 pedicels 1-flowered, rarely branched into a cyme, ebracteate. Caltx 5-partite or 

 -fid, persistent, scarious. Coeolla monopetalous, 5-lobed, sub-regular or ringent, 

 aestivation imbricate. Stamens 4, inserted at the base of the corolla, alternate with 

 its lobes ; filaments filiform ; anthers introrse, versatile, cells confluent. Ovaet 

 2-celled, cells antero-posterior, sometimes more or less perfectly subdivided by a 

 secondary septum from the axis ; style terminal, simple ; stigma emarginate, rarely 

 2-fid; ovules 2 collateral in each carpel, rarely 4 imbricate in pairs, pendulous, 

 anatropous. Deupe succulent or nearly dry, 2-celled or more or less completely 

 4-celled. Seeds inverted. Embeto cylindric, in the axis of a scanty fleshy 

 albumen ; cotyledons semi-cylindric ; radicle near the hilum, superior. 



GENERA. 

 *Myoporiim (StenocLilus). Pholidia. Eremophila. Bontia. 



Jifyoporine<s are connected ■with Verbenaceie, as we have already shown. They approach Selaginea 

 in hypogynism, the anisostemonous imbricate corolla, didynamous stamens, 1-celled anthers, 2 car- 

 pels, pendulous and anatropous ovules, albuminous embryo and alternate leaves ; but Selaginece 

 differ in their terminal spiked inflorescence, 1-ovuled cells, and fruit composed of 2 achenes. The 

 affinities are the same between Myoporinem and Glohulariea, but these differ in their terminal capitulum, 

 their 1-celled and -ovuled ovary, and their fruit being a caryopsis. 



MyoporinecB are mostly natives of Australia and some of the Pacific Islands. One genus {Bontia) 

 is found in the Antilles. They are generally studded with resinous glands, and in some species the 

 resin exudes in transparent drops. They are of no use to man ; some (Myoporum parviflorum, &c.) are 

 cultivated in Europe as ornamental plants. 



CLXXI. SELAGINE^} 



(Selagine^, Jussieu. — Sblaginaceje, Lindl.) 



Coeolla monopetalous, hypogynous, suh-regular, anisostemonous, cestivaiioH imbri' 

 cate. Stamens 4 nearly equal, or 2 inserted on the corolla. Ovaet of 2 l^ovuled 

 cells ; OVULES pendulouS) anatropous. Fbuit of 2 achenes. Embeto albuminous ; 

 EADICLE superior, 



Heebs or branching rNDEESHBTJBS. Leaves alternate or fascicled, sometimes 

 sub-opposite, simple, usually linear, exstipulate. Elowees g , generally irregular, 

 bracteate, spiked, solitary or panicled or corymbose. Caltx persistent, mono- 



' Eeduced by Harvey to a sub-oi'der of Verbenacem, — Ed, 

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