Native of Van Diemen's Island and New South Wales, 
where it forms a tall upright shrub of the height of eight or 
ten feet. In bloom it has a very lively appearance. The 
- flowers expand in rapid succession, and are quickly shed ; 
their scent is balsamic and not unpleasant. 
Branches, foliage, general and partial racemes as well 
as pedicles uniformly decussated and patent. Leaves sub- 
stantial, shortly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, pointed, smooth, 
nerved beneath, shallowly and distantly serrate. Jnflores- 
cence of composite racemes, disposed at the end of the branches 
in a broad pyramidal panicle; partial racemes terminal and 
axillary, of several flowers, pedicles shorter than the corolla, 
with a small bracte at their base, and two narrow subulate 
opposite ones just below the calyx. Calyx green, bilabiate, 
closing over the germen when the corolla falls off, tube 
striate, lips entire. Corolla about half an inch long, whitish, 
pubescent on both sides, tubular, turbinate, ringent, dotted 
with purple inside the tube; upper lip vaulted, obcordately 
rounded, shallowly bifid, lapping over the dower previous to 
expansion, the latter longer, deflectent, trifid, undulate at 
the edge, with a larger two-lobed middle segment having a 
~ double red spot at its base. Anthers two-lobed, all of them 
perfect, with a spur from the lower side of each lobe, that 
of one lobe twice the length or more of that of the other. 
Stigma bifid. Cariopsides (see explanation of this term iu 
fol. 87) 4, like nuts, with a somewhat berried or fleshily 
thickened exterior coat. 
The generic name has been compounded by M. Labil- 
larditre of recoge and av noe, in allusion to the appendages 
to the lobes of the anthers. No drawing has yet been pub» 
lished from a living plant. Mr, Edwards has been en- 
abled to make the present by the favour of Lady Aylesford, 
iu whose collection at Stanmore the specimen flowered this 
summer. 
Â greenhouse plant, introduced by Mr. Aylmer Bourke 
Lambert in 1808. We have not yet met with it in any of 
the nurseries near London. 
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a Calyx. 5 Corolla dissected. c A stamen magnified to show the anther 
and the two different sized spurs. d Pistil, 
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