; Tar. 7934. 
PROSTANTHERA peEnticunata. 
Native of Hastern Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Lapiata.—Tribe PRostanTHERE x. 
Genus Prostantusna, Labill.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1217.) 
PrRostaNTHERA denticulata; frutex ramosus, paucipedalis, hispidulus, flori- 
bundus, caulibus ramisqnue oppositis gracilibus rectis, foliis brevissime 
petiolatis rigidis lineari-lanceolatis maximis vix pollicaribus vix acutis 
maryine rigide setosis nec vere denticulatis supra hispidis subtus fere 
levibus, floribus purpureis in ramulorum apicibus subracemosis in folioram 
aut bractearum axillis solitariis brevissime pedicellatis, bracteolis 2 fere 
filiformibus juxta calycem positis et quadruplo brevioribus, calyce hispi- 
dulo alte et fere equaliter bilabiato, labiis rotundatis superiore majore 
margine basi recuryo, corolla glabra valde ineequaliter bilabiata circiter 
6 lin. diametro maximo, tubo brevi basi cylindrico subite inflato, labio 
superiore erecto breviter bilobato lobis obscure 3-lobulatis, labio inferiore 
recto ineequaliter 3-lobato lobis lateralibus ovato-rotundatis lobo inter- 
medio longiore obeordato, staminibus 4 inclusis, filamentis glabris, 
antheris 2-locularibus loculis basi in caudam brevissimam produactis 
connectivo etiam basi producto, stylo incluso, nuculis ovoideis punctatis. 
P. denticalata, R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 509. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
vol. xii. p. 561; F7. Austral. vol. v. p. 97. Moore, Handb. Fl. N.S. - 
Wales, p. 351. 
Prostanthera denticulata, R. Br., is a member of a tribe 
of the Labiatx, consisting of five genera, and about 100 
species, mostly shrubby, restricted to Australia. Pros- 
tanthera itself comprises about forty species, spread all 
over Australia, except the extreme north, and P. denti- 
culata has a wide range on the eastern side of the country. 
Some of the species are described as tall shrubs, but they 
are mostly bushes, three to six feet high, 
The plant figured was raised from seed sent to Kew by 
Mr. J. H. Maiden, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 
N.S. Wales, in 1900. It is in the Temperate House, and 
is now about three feet high, growing and flowering freely, 
beginning in April. 
Altogether some half-a-dozen species of Prostanthera 
have been in cultivation, mostly early in the last century, 
when ‘‘ hard wooded” plants were more in vogue. The 
species figured was originally introduced in 1824. 
Three haye previously been figured in the Magazine, 
January Isr, 1904. 
