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XCIV. MYOPORINE.E. 
[Myoporum, 
4. IVI. platycarpum (broad fruit), II. Br. Prod. 516 ; Bentli. Ft. Austr. 
v. 7. A tall shrub, or small tree, quite glabrous. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, 
entire, or with a few small distant teeth in the upper part, If to 3 in. long, 
rather thick, contracted into a short petiole. Pedicels often 6 or more in the 
axils, 1 to 2 lines long. Calyx not f line long, acutely lobed. Corolla more or 
less bearded inside at the throat, sometimes scarcely 2 lines long with the stamens 
included, in other specimens twice as large with exserted stamens. Ovary 
2-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Fruit ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, much 
flattened, about 3 lines long. — A. DC. Prod. xi. 711 ; F. v. M. Myop. PI. t. 60. 
Hab.: Inland localities. 
From 20 grams of resin Dr. Lauterer obtained 2-4 grams of picric acid. 
5. IVI. debile (weak), B. Br. Prod. 516 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 8 ; “Arnulla,” 
Rockhampton, Thozet. A low glabrous shrub, with a thick stock and decumbent 
or ascending stems, attaining sometimes 2 ft. or more, the branches often 
glandular-tuberculate. Leaves alternate, very shortly petiolate, or nearly sessile, 
elliptical oblong or lanceolate, entire or with a few small distant acute teeth, and 
often one or two larger ones on each side near the base, If to 3 or even 4 in. 
long. Pedicels solitary in the axils or in pairs, rarely so long as the calyx. 
Calyx-segments linear but leaf-like, acute, 3 to 4 lines long. Corolla pink 
or purplish, the tube about as long as the calyx, the lobes not half so long, 
more or less bearded inside at the base. Stamens included in the tube. 
Ovary 2-celled, with 2 collateral ovules in each cell. Fruit ovoid, 
somewhat compressed, 3 to 4 lines long, often furrowed on each side, 
2-celled. Seeds either 2 in each cell more or less separated by an imperfect dis- 
sepiment, or more frequently solitary by the abortion of the other ovule.— Bot. 
Mag. t. 1830, A. DC. Prod. xi. 711; F. v. M.. Myop. PI. t. 61 ; Poyonia debilis, 
Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 212; Andreusia debilis, Vent. Jard. Malm, under n. 108 ; 
Myoporum diffusum, R. Br. Prod. 516, A. DC. Prod. xi. 711 ; Capraria calycina, 
A. Gray, in Proe. Amer. Acad. vi. 49; Benth. FI. Austr. above, iv. 503. 
Hab.: Keppel and Shoalwater Bays and Broadsound, B. Brown ; Dawson river, Brisbane 
river, Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller; Bockhampton, Dallachy and others; Ne'kool Cre.k, 
Connor’s river, Bowman ; Darling Downs, Lau. 
Has been suspected of poisonous qualities. 
2. PHOLIDIA, R. Br. 
(Pseudopholidia, A. DC.; Sentis. Duttonia and Pholidiopsis, F. v. M.) 
Calyx divided to the base, with 5 or rarely 4 segments, often unequal, some- 
what dilated and much imbricate at the base, acuminate, not enlarged after 
flowering. Corolla-tube shortly cylindrical at the base, expanded into an 
obliquely campanulate throat, the limb of five spreading lobes, not very unequal, 
the 2 upper ones usually rather more united. Stamens 4, didynamous, usually 
exserted from the corolla-tube, but shorter than the lobes. Ovary 2-celled, with 
2 ovules, or very rarely only 1 in each cell ; style usually longer than in Myoporum, 
and hooked at the end. Fruit a dry or rarely succulent drupe, 2-celled, or more 
or less perfectly 4-celled, with 1 seed in each cell. — Shrubs. Leaves alternate 
scattered or irregularly opposite, entire or toothed. Flowers axillary, solitary and 
sessile, or on very short pedicels (except in P. santalina). 
The genus is limited to Australia. In the typical forms it differs from Myoporum in the more 
perfectly divided calyx, the shape of the corolla, the more didynamous stamens, as well as in 
the ovary and fruit and inflorescence, but Myoporum debile has the ovary of Pholidia. From 
Eremophila , Pholidia differs in the more regular corolla, the calvx-segments never enlarged 
after flowering, the stamens not exserted, the ovules never superposed in each half ceil, and the 
fruit not separating into 1-seeded nuts as in the section Eremocosmos, nor so succulent as in 
Stenochilus, but none of the latter characters are constant through all the species of Eremophila, 
and the fruits of some species are as yet unknown. The distinction between Pholidia and 
Eremophila is not, therefore, more definite than that between Pholodia and Myoporum. — Benth. 
