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WESTRINGIA EREMICOLA. Desert West-. 
RINGIA. 
SEEK KEKE KKK EK ERE KE EEE 
Class and Order. 
DipynamMiA GyMNOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lasiatz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. xqualis, 5-dentatus. Cor. tubo brevi, fauce ampli- 
ata, limbo subbilabiato, labio superiore bifido, inferiore tri- 
fido, lobo medio subbifido. Stam. 4, erecta, distantia ; 
superiora fertilia, antheris dimidiatis unilocularibus glabris ; 
inferiora sterilia, antheris bipartitis, lobis linearibus depen- 
dentibus cassis.—Frutices. Folia perennantia, ternatim vel 
quaternatim verticillata, integerrima. Benth. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Westrineta eremicola ; foliis ternis linearibus margine revo- 
lutis subtus cinereis, calycibus sericeo-pubescentibus, 
dentibus tubo sublongioribus. Benth. Gen. et Spec. 
Labiat. p. 459. | 
Westrineia eremicola. Allan Cunningham, MSS. 
Westrinei longifolia. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1481. non Br. 
A native of the internal parts of New South Wales, and 
as far as our researches have extended in that vast country, 
the only species known to be indigenous to the Interior— 
the localities of its several congeners being confined to the 
coast-line, or its vicinity, where they either occupy exposed 
spots on the boundary sandhills of a weather-beaten shore, 
or stations in the stony back-grounds equally within the 
influence of the sea air. The present subject was originally 
discovered by the botanists attached to the expedition of 
Mr. Oxtey on the Lachlan River, in 1817, who met with it 
Scattered over a considerable extent of level, barren country, 
bounding that stream on the South-west. It approaches 
nearest 
