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STENOCHILUS glaber. 
Smooth-leaved Stenochilus. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. Myoporine&. Brown prod. 1. 514. 
STENOCHILUS. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla ringens; labio superiore 
erecto, semiquadrifido; infertore indiviso, angusto, deflexo. Stamina didy- 
Nama, exserta. Germen 4-loculare, loculis 1-spermis. Stigma obtusum 
indivisum. Drupa baccata, 4-locularis. Semina solitaria. Embryo it 
Versus. 
Frutices glabriusculi, v. tomento tenuissimo cinerascentes. Folia alterna, 
Sepius integra, avenia, Pedunculi solitarii, uniflori, ebracteati. Flores 
purpuret v. flavicantes. Drupe putamen abortione sepé biloculare. Brown 
prod. 1. 517; et in Hort. Kew. dt 2. 4. 61. 
8. glaber, foliis lanceolatis ellipticisve integris apice nunc dentatis glabris 
flore vix longioribus, ramulis tomentosis, caule diffuso. Brown prod. 1. 
517. 
Stenochilus glaber. Brown in hort. kew. ed. 2. 4.61. Curtis’s magaz. 1942, 
ee a 
Myoporine, the order where the present plant belongs 
was founded by Mr. Brown in the Prodromus of the Flora of 
New Holland; but the following observations are taken 
from his general remarks on the Botany of Terra Australis, 
‘The principal characters in the fructification of this 
“order, by which it is distinguished from /% erbenacee, 
“are the presence of Albumen in the ripe seed, and the di- 
“rection of the Embryo, whose radicule always points to- 
“ wards the apex of the fruit. The first of these characters, 
“however, is not absolute, and neither of them can be as- 
* certained before the ripening of the seed: for previous to 
“the complete developement of the Embryo the fluid albu- 
“men equally exists in both orders; and although all the 
4 genera of Verbenacee have an Embryo whose radicule 
__ points towards the base of the fruit, yet many of them 
have pendulous seeds, and consequently a radicule remote 
“ from the umbilicus. Hence Avicennia, which I formerly 
“annexed to Myoporine, should be restored to erbenacee, 
“with which also it much better agrees in habit.” 
