BY J. H. MAIDEN AND E. BETCHK. 793 



whorls of 3, oblong-elliptical to lanceolate, acute, about ^ inch 

 long, the margins thickened and slightly recurved, glabrous when 

 full grown, slightly hoary-tomentose on the underside when 

 young. Flowers rather small, the corolla hardly above twice as 

 long as the calyx, of a purplish-blue or sometimes white faintly 

 tinted with pink, axillary, but all crowded at the ends of the 

 branches, forming leafy terminal heads. Calyx green and glab- 

 rous, nearly ^ inch long, with a ribbed tube and short, broad but 

 acute lobes hardly ^ the length of the tube, the bracts under the 

 calyx very small. Corolla slightly hairy inside and outside; other 

 floral characters those of the genus. Ripe fruits not seen. 



Frutex densus circiter vel plus 1 m. altus, fere glaber proeter 

 tomentum minutissinium ramisjuvenilibusefe latere inferiore foliis 

 juveniiibus. Foliis fere sessilibus, ternis, oblongo-ellipticis vel 

 lanceolatis, acutis, circiter 5 mm. longis, marginibus densatis et 

 aliquanto recurvatis. Floribus axillaribus sed apice ramorum 

 confeitis in capitibus fere terminalibus. Calyce viridi glabro, 

 bracteis minutissimis sub apice, tubuio costato circiter 4 mm. 

 longo, lobis latis acutisque circiter 1 mm longis. Corolla ali- 

 quanto pilosa. 



The shrub grows abundantly and gregariously on slightly 

 elevated ridges on tiie plains between Goonoo and Mudgee. It is 

 not an attractive plant from an horticultural point of view; the 

 flowers are not very conspicuous, and the foliage is of a dull pale 

 green, often shading to purplish on the young shoots, according 

 to tlie collector's notes. 



Bentham writes iu the " Flora Australiensis," in a footnote to 

 the genus : — " With the exception of W. cephalantha, the species 

 are so closely allied, and run so much into each other as to render 

 it exceedingly difficult to assign to them any tangible characters." 

 We find this remark very true, and it is difficult, for that reason, 

 to say to which of the described species our new species is most 

 nearly allied. It has the short calyx-lobes and very short bracts 

 of W. rigida R.Br., and has also the whorls in 3's in common 

 with that species, but it difl'ers from it in the glabrous calyx, 



and widely in habit and inflorescence. In habit and inflorescence 



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