1. Myoporum Banks and Sol.

Shrubs or small trees, glabrous or the branchlets glutinous. Leaves alternate, entire or serrate, studded with pellucid glands. Flowers small, axillary, solitary or fascicled. Calyx 5-lobed or -partite, not enlarged after flowering. Corolla campanulate; tube short; limb 5-lobed, lobes subequal or the lowest rather larger. Stamens 4, rarely 5 or 6, nearly equal, included or shortly exserted. Ovary ovoid, 2–4-celled, very rarely 5–10-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell, rarely 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Drupe ovoid or subglobose, more or less succulent.

A genus of about 25 species, mostly Australian, the rest scattered through the Pacific islands, the Malay Archipelago, China and Japan, and Mauritius. The single New Zealand species is endemic, but is very closely allied to some from the Pacific islands.