Myoporinece.} 



SOCIETY ISLANDS. 



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Radix perennis, subfiisiformis. Caules adscendentes valde dichotome ramosi, teretes, infenie frutescentes, 

 ubique pilis albidis erectis hispidi. Folia unciara longa, lanceolata, interne attenuata, integerrima, acuta, 

 dense strigoso-hispida. Racemi terminates, glomerati, plerumque bitidi. Calyx quinque-rarius quadri-par- 

 titus, laciniis duabus maximis spathulatis patentibus, reliqnis linearibus minoribus erectis, strigoso-hispidus. 

 Corolla subinfiuidibulitbrmis, limbo patente 5-6-partito, plicato, extus tubo prsecipue hispida. Stamina 5-6, 

 tubo inserta, inclusa. Germen subrotundum, 5-lobum. Stylus tubo corolla? brevior. Stigma capitatiuii, 

 apice pilis albis erectis penicillatum. Fructus e nucibus 5 scabris. 



Hab. Wliitsunday Island. — This singular and interesting plant may probably be the Lithospermum in- 

 canum, Forst. ; but we nowhere find it remarked as having- a fruit separable into five nuts, a character almost 

 at variance with the Boraginece, to which Order, nevertheless, our plant undoubtedly belongs. 



1. Tournefortia argentea. Linn. 



2. Tournefortia gnaphalioides. Br. — Heliotropium gnaph. Linn. 

 1 . Cordia discolor ? Cham, in Linn. 



One solitary specimen, of which the flowers'are unexpanded, seems to agree with the C. discolor which we 

 have from Chamisso, and also from Dr. Boog, gathered in Brazil, as well as from Rev. L. Guilding, gathered 

 in St. Vincent. 



Ord. XXX. CYRTANDRACE^E. Jack. 

 1. Cyrtandra biflora ; frutescens, erecta, foliis ovali-ellipticis utrinque acutiusculis subin- 

 tegerrimis glabris subtus pallidis, pedunculis axillaribus subtrifloris, calyce pubescenti-to- 

 mentoso. Forst. Gen. p. 5. t. 3. 



Ord. XXXI. SOLANE/E. Juss. 



1. Solanum nigrum. Linn. 



In our specimens the leaves are hairy. 



2. Solarium Quitense. 



1. Lycopersicon esculentum. Dunal. — Solanum Lycopersicum. Linn. 

 1. Physalis angulata. Linn. 



Ord. XXXII. SCROPHULARINEiE. Juss. 

 1. Scoparia dulcis. Linn. 



Ord. XXXIII. LABIAT7E. Juss. 

 1. Ocymum gratissimum. Linn. 



1. Leucas decemdentatus. Sm. in Rees' Cycl. — L. stachyoides. Spr. — Stachys decem- 

 dentata. Forst. 



Ord. XXXIV. VERBENACEiE. Juss. 

 1 . Verbena honariensis. Linn. 

 1. Premna integrifolia. Linn. 



Ord. XXXV. MYOPORINEiE. Br. 

 1. Myoporum ? euphrasioides ; foliis oppositis ovatis subdentatis in petiolum attenuatis, 

 Horibus geminis, pedunculo petiolum aequante, calycibus ampliatis, drupa biloculari, loculis 

 monospermis. 



