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diverging ; ovules, two, pendulous, in each cell. Fruit ovoid, coriaceous, com- 
pressed, one-celled, one-seeded ; embryo very large with scanty albumen; testa 
wanting ; cotyledons very large; radicle long; endosperm scanty. 
ORDER 27. MYOPORINEA. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves usually alternate, exstipulate, gland- 
dotted. Flowers perfect, axillary: calyx inferior, five-lobed, persistent, scarious ; 
corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, five-lobed, scabrid, regular; stamens, four, 
epipetalous ; anthers confluent; ovary superior, two-celled; style simple; ovules 
solitary or in pairs in each cell. Fruit, “a drupe, two- to four- or rarely five- 
celled; cells one- or, rarely, two-seeded; seeds anatropous, endosperm scanty, 
embryo cylindrical, radicle superior. 
Genus 1. Myororum, Banks and Solander. 
Glabrous shrubs or small trees, branchlets often viscid. Leaves alternate. 
Calyx deeply five-lobed, inferior; corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, with a 
short tube, five-lobed ; stamens, four, epipetalous; anthers two-celled, the cells 
ultimately confluent; ovary superior, two- to five-celled; style slender; stigma 
obtuse; ovules solitary or geminate in each cell. Fruit, a drupe, sometimes 
nearly dry, two- to five-celled; cells usually one-seeded, rarely two-seeded, 
pendulous. 
Division II]. INCOMPLET A. 
Perianth leaves in one series only or absent. 
OrDER 28. NYCTAGINE, 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves mostly opposite, entire, exstipulate. 
Flowers perfect or unisexual, with small or large bracts at the base, which in 
some species form a coloured involucre; perianth monophyllous, inferior, tubu- 
lar or funnel-shaped, five-lobed, persistent, enveloping the fruit ; stamens, one to 
thirty, hypogynous; ovary superior, one-celled; stigma simple, entire, or lobed, 
or plumose; ovule, one, erect. Fruit, a utricle enclosed in the persistent 
perianth-tube; seed, one, embryo with curved or folded or straight cotyledons, 
foliaceous, endosperm mealy or mucilaginous, radicle inferior, 
Genus I. Pisonia, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, alternate or verticillate. Flowers 
terminal, perfect or unisexual, with minute bracts at the base: perianth cylin- 
drical; mouth campanulate, five-lobed ; stamens, six to ten, hypogynous; ovary 
linear, one-celled ; style lateral or terminal, slender; stigma entire or lobed or 
plumose; utricle closely invested by the persistent-ribbed perianth; embryo 
straight. 
OrpDER 29. CHLORANTHACEZ. 
Herbs, shrubs, or small trees. Leaves opposite, stipulate. Flowers 
minute, moncecious, dicecious or bisexual, spiked, bracts concave or absent: 
perianth absent; stamens, one to three, sessile, or on very short filaments, 
epigynous in bisexual flowers; ovary sessile, one-celled ; stigma sessile; ovule 
solitary, pendulous. Fruit, a small drupe, fleshy, one-seeded ; endosperm 
fleshy ; embryo minute ; radicle inferior., 
Genus 1. Ascarina, Forster. 
Shrubs or trees, with dicecious spicate flowers ; bracts small; stamen, one ; 
anther linear-oblong, two-celled ; ovary ovoid. 
