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Duboisia  Myoropoides. 
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\       Aug.,  1878. 
at  the  base  ;  the  anthers  reniform,  attached  by  the  inferior  concave 
margin,  and  dehiscent  by  a  single  cleft,  extending  the  entire  length  of 
the  superior  border.  The  ovary  is  superior,  ovoid,  two- celled,  with  a 
small  disk  at  the  base,  surmounted  by  a  cylindrical  style  which  termin- 
ates with  a  nearly  entire  stigma,  and  in  each  cell  with  twelve  anatropous 
ovules.  The  fruit  is  a  two-celled,  fleshy,  roundish,  black  berry  of  the 
size  of  a  small  pea,  surrounded  at  the  base  with  the  persistent  calyx 
DUBOISIA  MYOPOROIDES,  R.  Br. 
and  terminating  above  into  a  short  point,  formed  by  the  base  of  the 
style.  The  seeds,  of  which  2  or  4  are  in  each  cell,  are  elongated, 
reniform,  larger  at  one  end,  brown,  reticulate  on  the  surface  and 
enclose  under  the  hard,  but  brittle  integuments,  a  rather  abundant 
albumen,  which  surrounds  the  axile  cylindrical  curved  embryo,  pointing 
the  radicle  to  the  narrow  end  of  the  seed. 
Duboisia  myoporoides  is  difficult  to  classify.  Endlicher  placed  it  in 
the  order  of  Scrophulariacecs ;  but  Bentham  and  Hooker  amongst  the 
