of Australia, and afterwards was met with by Mr. Antan 
Cunninenam on Dirk Hartog’s Island, and on the western 
shore of the main land, and by him imtroduced to the 
Royal Garden at Kew in 1822. From that rich collection 
it was, along with the following species, communicated by 
Mr. Arron, in October, 1833, together with some notes from 
Mr. Cunninenam. 
Descr. A much-branched, low, and straggling shrub. 
Leaves numerous, patent, mostly ternate, linear, grooved in 
the centre, the margins recurved, very minutely downy, so 
as to give an ashen hue above, the underside downy and 
white. Flowers solitary, from the axil of a leaf, sessile. 
Calyx slightly downy like the leaves, with five small teeth 
and five angles, and with two appressed small bracteas at 
the base. Corolla with a tube scarcely longer than the 
corolla : upper lip plane, bifid, very hairy, pale purple with 
deep purple spots ; lower lip three-partite, the segments 
linear-oblong, nearly glabrous, with a few yellow and 
pple spots at the base. Stamens two, perfect : Filaments 
airy below, swollen and apparently with a joint above: 
Anther one-celled, edged with purple: Pollen white :— 
There are besides two short, sterile filaments, with two re- 
curved points (abortive cells.) Germen slightly four-lobed. 
Stigma bifid. a 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Perfect Stamen. 3. Imperfect ditto. 4. Pistil. 5. 
Calyx including a Pistil :—magnified. 
