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MYOPORA.CEJE. 
Order LXXVI. MYOPORACE^. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular. Calyx persistent, inferior, usually 
5-partite. Corolla monopetalous, with 5 subequal or bilabiate divisions. 
Stamens 4, inserted in the corolla-tube ; anthers reniform, finally 
1- celled. Ovary 2-celled, with a couple of pendulous anatropal ovules 
in each cell, or rarely 4-celled ; style filiform ; stigma capitate, lobed. 
Fruit a small drupe with a 2-4-celled bony endocarp. Albumen thin, 
fleshy ; radicle superior. — Shrubs, with usually alternate gland-dotted 
exstipulate leaves with solitary or fascicled flowers in their axils. 
DfsTRiB. Chiefly Australian. Species 80. 
1. MYOPORUM, Banks and Sol. 
Calyx 5-partite, not accrescent. Corolla campanulate, with 5 sub- 
equal rounded lobes. Stamens 4, subequal, included. Ovary 2-4- 
celled ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. Fruit a 2-4-celled drupe, with 
2- 4-seeds. — Shrubs, with gland-dotted simple mostly alternate leaves, 
the whitish flowers 1 or few, without common peduncles, in their 
axils. Distrib. Species about 20, principally Australian. 
1. M. mauritianum, A. DC. Prod. xi.7ll. A much-branchedglabrous 
gland-dotted shrub with viscose branchlets. Leaves crowded towards the 
end of the branchlets, subcoriaceous, lanceolate, nearly sessile, 2 in. long, 
acute, narrowed from the middle gradually to both ends, entire or 
finely serrated. Flowers 1-2 together in the axils of each leaf, on 
f in. pedicels. Calyx in. long, glabrous ; segments lanceolate. 
Corolla campanulate, j in. long, conspicuously gland-dotted ; lobes 
round. Style As l° n g; stigma 4-lobed. Drupe the size of a small 
pea. 
Mauritius, Sieber, Herb. Maur. No. 260 (under the name of Bontea daphnoides). 
Rodriguez, one small patch on the coralline limestone of the shore at the east end 
of the island, Balfour! Endemic. 
Order LXXYII. VERBENACE^S. 
Flowers more or less irregular, hermaphrodite. Calyx persistent, 
inferior, campanulate or tubular, 4-5-toothed or truncate. Corolla with 
a funnel-shaped tube and usually 5 subequal or unequal lobes, the limb 
often bilabiate, two lobes in the upper and three in the lower lip. 
Stamens didynamous, inserted in the corolla-tube ; anthers 2-celled, 
with longitudinal dehiscence. Ovary 2-4-celled ; ovules 1-2 in a cell ; 
style simple; stigma capitate or forked. Fruit a capsule or drupe, 
with 2-4-cells. Seeds erect or pendulous ; albumen none or scanty ; 
radicle inferior. — Herbs, shrubs or trees, with opposite exstipulate 
leaves and various inflorescence. Distrib. Mainly tropical in both 
hemispheres. Species 700. 
