Graptophyllum.] 
XCIII. ACAlsTHACE^E. 
1153 
2. Cr. Earlii (after G. W. Earl), F. v. 3/. Fragm. vi. 87. Bentli. FI. Austr. 
iv. 551. A beautiful glabrous shrub or tree of 10 to 25ft. Leaves 
oblong-elliptical, acute or mucronulate, entire or with a few very small acute 
teeth, f to ljin. long. Flowers of a rich red, solitary in the axils or in clusters 
of very few. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines long, with minute bracts and bracteoles at 
the base. Calyx-segments narrow, acute, about 2 lines long. Corolla-tube in- 
curved, much shorter than the tube, the lower lip rather shorter, equally divided 
into rather broad almost acute lobes. Filaments hairy at the base ; staminodia 
filiform. Capsule hard, almost woody, about fin. long. — Earlia excelsa, F. v. M. 
Fragm. iii. 163. ; Thyrsacanthus Earlia, F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 87. 
Hab.: Near Eockhampton, Dallachy, Thozet. 
Thyrsacanthus is a South American genus with a very different habit and corolla. — Bentli. 
Wood flesh-coloured, becoming brown towards the centre ; very hard, tough, and close 
grained. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 293. 
3. G ilicifolium (Holly-leaved), F. v. 3/. Herb., Bentli. FI. Austr. iv. 552. 
A glabrous shrub of 10 to 15ft. (NernstJ. Leaves very shortly petiolate, broadly 
ovate, obtuse or acute, bordered by irregular mucronate or prickly teeth, 3 to 4 
in. long, coriaceous, much veined but very shining. Flowers of a rich red, in 
short dense axillary clusters or racemes. Pedicels short, with very small 
bracts and bracteoles at the base. Calyx-segments 3 to 4 lines long. 
Corolla-tube fin. long, dilated into a broad throat but not so oblique nor so 
broad as in G. Earlii, the lips |in. long, the upper one concave and incurved, 
the lower one divided to the base into 3 equal narrow lobes. Stamens as in G. 
Earhi. Capsule above lin. long. 
Hab.: Mount Blackwood, Mackay district, Nernst. 
Near G. pictum, of which it has the narrow-lobed corollas, and only differs, as far as I can 
ascertain, in foliage. 
Order XCIY. MYOPORINEJE, 
Flowers irregular or rarely nearly regular. Calyx persistent, more or less 
deeply toothed or divided into 5, rarely 4, lobes or segments. Corolla with 4 or 
5, rarely more, lobes more or less 2-lipped or nearly equal, imbricate in the bud, 
the upper lip or lobes outside (or rarely inside ?). Stamens usually 4, in pairs, 
inserted in the tube of the corolla and alternating with its lower lobes, rarely 
nearly equal and as many as corolla-lobes ; anther-cells opening longitudinally, 
at first nearly parallel, confluent at the apex, and usually when open forming a 
single reniform cell. Ovary free, not lobed, normally 2-celled, with 2 collateral 
ovules, or 2 or 3 superposed pairs of collateral ovules in each cell, attached to 
the incurved margins of a placenta projecting from the dissepiment so as to 
divide each cell more or less perfectly into 2, with one of the ovules of each pair 
in each half-cell, or sometimes the ovary divided from the first into 2 to 4, or in 
extra-Australian species more, cells with one ovule in each cell. Ovules pendu- 
lous, anatropous, with a superior micropyle. Style simple, undivided, or 
obscurely notched at the apex. Fruit a dry or succulent drupe, the endocarp 2- 
to 4- or rarely more-celled or 1-celled by abortion, or separating into as many 
pyrenes. Seeds usually solitary in each cell or half-cell, very rarely 2 or 3 super- 
posed, albuminous in the species where they have been seen ripe, but the albumen 
sometimes thin ; embryo straight, with a superior radicle. — Shrubs or small 
trees. Leaves alternate, scattered, or rarely strictly opposite, undivided. Flowers 
axillary, solitary, or in clusters of 2, 3, or more. Bracts at the base of the 
pedicels very small or none, no bracteoles on the pedicels. 
The Order is chiefly Australian, and two genera entirely so ; a third extends sparingly over 
the Indian Archipelago, the Pacific Islands, and tropical Africa; and there is a fourth monotypic 
tropical American genus. The affinity of this Order with Verbenaceas is so striking that some 
