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XCIV. MYOPORINEJK. 
[Eremophila. 
part slightly incurved and not much dilated, the 4 upper lobes short and acute, 
the lowest one narrow, recurved, separated to below the middle of the corolla. 
Stamens usually but perhaps not always exserted. Ovary glabrous, with 2 or 
3 pairs of ovules to each cell. Fruit ovoid-globular, shortly acuminate, above 
4-in. diameter, very succulent, with a hard bony putamen, completely 2-celled 
and less perfectly 4-celled. Seeds small, without so much albumen as in some 
species — F. v. M. Myop. PI. t. 35 ; Stenocliilus maculatus, Ker. in Bot. Reg. t. 
647 ; R. Br. App. Sturt, Exped. 22 ; S. racemosus Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 50 ; 
A. DC. Prod xi. 715 ; S. curvipes, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 221. 
Hab.: Wavrego river, Mitchell; Isaacs and Fitzroy rivers, Bowman anil others; Currie- 
willinghie, Dalton ; Darling Downs, Lau. Very common on inland Downs country. 
Var. flava. Only differs from the common form in the flowers being all yellow. Rare in 
Queensland. 
All forms of this species are alike poisonous to stock, and year after year a considerable 
number of deaths occur from this cause. 
Order XCV. YERBENACEjE. 
Flowers irregular or rarely regular. Calyx persistent, truncate toothed or 
lobed. Corolla with 4 or 5, rarely 6 to 8, lobes or rarely truncate, the lobes more 
or less 2-lipped or nearly or quite equal, imbricate in the bud, the upper lip or 
uppermost lobe or sometimes the lateral one outside. Stamens inserted in the 
tube of the corolla, usually 4 in pairs or nearly equal and alternating with its 
lower lobes, or when the corolla is regular 4 to 8 alternating with its lobes. 
Anthers 2-celled, the cells opening longitudinally and usually parallel. Ovary 
not lobed or only shortly 4-lobed, usually more or less perfectly divided into 2 or 
4 cells or half-cells, with 1 ovule in each cell or half-cell, either anatropous and 
erect from the base, or more or less amphitropous and attached laterally or near 
the top so as to appear pendulous. Style terminal, simple, entire or more 
frequently with 2 short stigmatic lobes. Fruit dry or more or less drupaceous, 
the whole fruit or the endocarp separating into 2 or 4 nuts or pyrenes or quite 
dehiscent and 2 or 4-celled, and sometimes with an additional central cavity 
between the carpels having the appearance of a third or fifth empty cell. Seeds 
solitary in each cell half-cell or pyrene, erect, with or without albumen, the testa 
usually membranous. Embryo straight, with thick cotyledons and an inferior 
radicle. — Herbs shrubs trees or woody climbers. Leaves opposite whorled or 
rarely alternate, without stipules, entire toothed or divided. Inflorescence 
various. 
A large Order, ranging over both the New and the Old World, most abundant within the 
tropics, but with several extratropical species, both in the northern and southern hemispheres. 
Tiube I Chloanthese.— Ovary 2-celled, cells 2 rarely 1 ovulate, ovules laterally attached. 
Seeds, where known, albuminous. Shrubs or rarely herbs, usually very cottony or woolly, rarely 
nearly glabrous, glutinous or resinous. 
* Corolla-lobes 4 to 8, subequal. Stamens same number. 
Flowers 5-merous in dense woolly spikes. Style minutely 2-lobed . . . 1. Newcastlia. 
Flowers 5-merous, corymbose or in head-like clusters. Style deeply 
2-lobed 2. DicrastyLes, 
** Corolla 2-lipped, or unequally o-lobed. Stamens 4, anthers pointless. 
Calyx-lobes narrow, herbaceous. Corolla-tube elongate. Anthers 
without appendages. Leaves decurrent, bullate-rugose. Flowers 
axillary 3. Chloanthes. 
Calyx-lobes narrow or increasing to ovate or oblong. Corolla-tube 
broad ; anther cells often with basal appendages. Leaves not 
decurrent. Flowers axillary, solitary or cymose or spicate, often 
loafy . 4. Pityrodia. 
*** Corolla 5, rarely 4-lobed. Stamens 4, anthers apiculate at base, Flowers axillary. 
