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168 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



scabrous, beneath along the margin and nerve pilose ; spikes ternate, 

 geminate or solitary, ebracteate ; segments of the calyx subetjual to 

 each other, of the length of the corolla-tube; caryopsides subovate, 

 rugose, glabrous. 



Hab. Around the lagoons, and in low localities on the Murray, 



XXXVII. LABIATiE. 



132. Prostanthera 5j9mo5a, F.Muell; branches numerous, spreading, 

 hispid ; twigs short, spinescent, foliate at the base ; leaves lanceolate 

 or roundish-ovate, acute, entire or repand, glabrous or below imper- 

 fectly hairy; peduncles thin, axillary, solitary, surpassing twice the 

 length of the calyx, at the middle bibracteate; calyx sparingly hispid, 

 its Kps entire, the lower one hardly longer ; corolla of lilac-colour, out- 

 ward but little hairy; longer spur of the anthers exceeding nearly 

 twice the cell, the other abbreviate. 



Hab. On springs and irrigated rocks in the Grampians. 

 This species is remarkable for its prickly branchlets. 



133. Prostanthera coccinea, F. Muell. ; branches hirtellous ; leaves 

 small, somewhat thick, with reflexed apex, linear-oblong or simply 

 linear, blunt, flat or on the margin slightly recui'ved, hairy-scabrous, 

 at length glabrescent, in the axils fasciculate ; flowers near the top of 

 the twigs axillary ; peduncles a little shorter than the calyx, which is, 

 with exception of the ciliolate margin, glabrous, its lips entire, the 

 lower one a little longer; corolla red, three times longer than the 

 calyx, somewhat hairy, its upper lip longest; spurs of the anthers 

 adnate, the longer one hardly as long as the cell. 



Hab. In the Mallee Scrub on the Murray, on St. Vincent's and 

 Spencer's Gulf. 



A low, diffuse bush, allied to P. microphylla (A. Cunn., in Benth. 

 Lab. p. 454). 



134. Prostanthera euryUoides, F. Muell. ; branches puberulous ; 



small 



cave. 



unding 



ovate ; flowers axillary, solitary, on short peduncles ; the lower lip of 

 the glabrous calyx nearly retuse, little exceeding the rounded upper lip ; 

 longer spur of the anthers surpassing the length of the cell. 



Hab. In the Mallee Scrub towards the mouth of the Murray River. 



Resembles in habit Euryhia lepidophylla. 



