M YOPORACEiE ( auctor alph. DC. ). 701

Ordo CXLVIII. MYOPORACEaE (1). — Myoporinse Broivnprodr.Jl. nov.-holl. p. 514 [exci. Avicennia, exejusd. gen.rem. p. 34). —Myoporinees Juss. dict. sc. nat. 34 p . 26.— Polygalem , b, Myoporinese Reich. consp. p. 120 ( exci.Krameria. — Myoporinse Barii, ord.p. 176. — Myopora-eecC Lindi, nai.syst.ed. 2p. 279 [exci. Avicennia ).—Myoporinese Endl. gen. p. 642, ic. t. 65, 66, 92. —Myoporacese Lindi, veg. kingd. p. 665 ( exci. Avicennia).

Calyx persistens , 5-partitus vel rarius 5-fidus, lobis interdumbasi imbricatis, sestivatione 5-unciali. Corolla gamopetala,5-loba, subregularis vel varie bilabiata, lobo uno semper anticoid est erga axim inflorescenti* exteriore, in sestivatione intimo.Stamina 4, ssepius exserta, basi corolla) inserta, ejus lobisinferioribus alterna, absque vestigio quinti superioris ; 2 infe-rioribus in didynamia majoribus. Antherse lunulatie , apice fila-menti oscillantes , loculis 2 in unum rima unica introrsum dehis-centem confluentibus. Pollen ( ex Myoporis parvifloro et apicu-lato ) ellipsoideum , sulcatum , laeve, tubis ( ex Hassal ann. nat.hist. 9 p. 550 ) tribus. Ovarium toro pingui sine nectario annu-lari aut glandula insidens , liberum, bi- (in Polycoelio multi-)loculare , loculis antice et postice sitis, frequenter carpidiorummarginibus e centro introllexis incomplete vel complete in locel-los subdivisis. Ovula e superiore parte, rarius e media, loculorumpendentia, anatropa, micropyle supera; in Polycoelio 5 8; inomnibus fere aliis aut 4, nempe 1 in quaque sudivisione locu-lorum, aut 2 , nempe 1 in utroque loculo ; in Bontia 8, nempe2 in locellis superposita. Stylus terminalis, apice simplexvel rarius bifidus. Drupa parva , baccata vel fere exsucca, puta-mine (Polycoelio excepto ) biloculari , srnpe replis carpidiorumincrassatis aut extensis incomplete vel complete 4-locularis , pronumero ovulorum 8-4-2-sperma. Semina inversa, oblonga ;albumine carnoso, parco. Embryo in axi albuminis, ejusdemfere longitudinis, teres ; radicula supera; cotyledonibus plano-convexis', oblongis, radiculam subsequantibus. —Suffrutices ,frutices , rarissime arbusculae, e Nova Hollandia pleraque indi-gena, etiam ex aliis insulis Oceani Pacifici, unico genere (Bon-tia ) ex insulis Americanis Caribteis! Folia alterna, rarius oppo-sita, simplicia, integra vel dentata, plerumque glandulis resi-nosis conspersa. Stipula' nulla. Flores axillares, albi, flavi velrubri, nunquam vero coerulei, pedicellis solitariis , binis pluri-busve ex eadem axilla , saspe uno altero in axilla superposito,

(l) Auciore Alph. de Candolle , m&nuscriptis paternis quoad spcc. Myopori et genusEreroodendron adhibitis.