Myporineae
A natural order of erect or diffuse shrubs, rarely trees or sub-shrubs, natives, for the most part, of Australia, a few dispersed through the Southern islands from Mauritius as far as the Sandwich Islands, two in South Africa, two in the states of Japan or China, and one in the West Indies. Flowers axillary, solitary or fasciculate, sub-sessile or pedicellate. Leaves alternate, scattered, or rarely opposite, entire or rarely dentate, undivided, exstipulate. The order comprises five genera and about eighty species. Illustrative genera are: Myoporum and Oftia.