namely: P. lasianthos, Labill. (t. 2434); P. empetrifolia, 
Sieb. (t..3405), and P. nivea, A. Cunn. (t. 5658). Another 
species, P. violacea, R. Br., is figured in the ‘ Botanical 
Register,” t. 1072. 
Descr.—A much-branched, free-flowering, hispid shrub, 
a few feet high. Stems and the opposite branches slender, 
straight. Leaves very shortly petioled, stiff, linear-lan- 
ceolate, the largest scarcely an inch long, subacute, margin 
beset with short, rigid bristles, but not toothed, hispid 
above, naked below. Flowers purple, subracemose, soli- 
tary in the axils of the leaves or bracts. Pedicels very 
short, bearing two very short, filiform bracteoles close 
under the calyx. Calyx hispid, deeply two-lipped ; lips 
almost equal, rcunded, the upper slightly larger, with the 
margin recurved near the base. Corolla glabrous, very 
unequally two-lipped, about half an inch in its greatest 
diameter ; tube very short, cylindrical at the base, then 
suddenly inflated ; upper lip erect, shortly two-lobed, lobes 
obscurely 3-lobulate ; lower lip straight, unequally 3-lobed, 
lateral lobes ovate-rotundate, intermediate longer, obcor- . 
date. Stamens 4, included; filaments glabrous; anthers 
2-celled, cells produced at the base in very short tails; 
connective also produced at the base. Style included, 
Nutlets ovoid, pitted.—W. B. H. 
Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, calyx and style; 3, corolla; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, fruit:— 
all enlarged, 
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