1481 



WESTRINGIA* longifdlia 



Long- leaved Westringia. 



DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Labiate Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of Botany, 

 p. 239.) 



Tribus 2. Satureik^e Bent ham. Suprd,fol. 1289. 



WESTRINGIA Smith. — Calyx sequalis, 5-nervis, 5-dentatus. Corolla 

 tubo calycem subsequante, bilabiata : labio superiore erecto subplano emargi- 

 nato v. bifido, inferiore patente trifido. Stamina 4, distantia. Antherce 

 superiorum dimidiatae, inferiorum 2-partitee, cassee. Stylus apice sub- 

 eequaliter bifidus. Bentham I. c. 



W. longifolia ; foliis ternis linearibus margine recurvis adultis supra scabris : 

 subtus calycibusque pilosiusculis viridibus : dentibus longitudine tubi. 

 Brown prodr. 501. 

 Rami graciles, subtetragoni, pilosiusculi. Folia ternatim verticillata, 



linearia, apice mucronata, supra scabra, subtils viridia,pilosiuscula. Floies 



pallide ccerulei, axillares, solitarii, sessiles, pubescentes. 



A pretty little shrub, having the habit of some slender 

 variety of our Rosemary. It is a Greenhouse plant, native 

 of New Holland, where it was found near Port Jackson 

 both by Mr. Brown and Dr. White. 



It should have a situation in an airy part of the Green- 

 house, where it will thrive in any light soil. 



Our drawing was made in Mr. Knight's Nursery in 

 November last. 



Branches slender, somewhat 4-cornered, slightly hairy. 

 Leaves in whorls of threes, linear, mucronate at the apex, 



* So named by Sir James Smith, in honour of Dr. John Peter Westring, 

 author of several useful papers upon Lichens. 



