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was called " Lemon Haws," on account of the odour of its 

 fleshy fruit. It forms a small bush, flowering in its native 

 country in March, but here in the month of August. The 

 leaves are long, very narrow, coriaceous, conspicuously 

 marked with glandular dots, and apparently smooth, until 

 they are examined by a microscope, when they are seen to 

 be covered with fine short close-pressed hairs. The flowers 

 are about an inch long, single or in pairs in the axils of the 

 leaves, downy, and of a dull greenish red colour, with the 

 stamens a little projecting. In both this and the next the 

 ovary is bilocular. The corolla of Stenochilus, although 

 formed upon the same plan as that of other labiate flowers, 

 diff*ers in this, that the four upper lobes grow into an upper 

 lip, and that which is usually the middle lobe of the lower 

 lip forms by itself the whole lower lip, which is rolled back 

 upon itself. 



116. STENOCHILUS incanus ; tota pilis minimis stellatis Incano-tomentosa, 

 foliis ovali-lanceolatis obtusis in petiolum angustatis impunctatis, corolla 

 tomentosa utrinque glanduiis pruinosa : labio superiore cymbiformi quadri- 

 dentato inferiore semilibero revoluto multo longiore, ovario biloculari. 



Another shrub resulting from Sir Thomas Mitchell's last 

 journey into the south-east interior of New Holland, for 

 which the Society is indebted to that distinguished officer. 

 It forms a gray bush, looking like an olive, or some leafless 

 Acacia, and is covered closely with a short white down, con- 

 sisting of stellate hairs ; a circumstance deserving of atten- 

 tion in such a natural order as that of Myoporaceae. The 

 flowers are solitary, axillary, and rather more than an inch 

 long. The corolla is dull green, with the upper lip com- 

 pressed, slightly toothed at the point, beyond which the 

 stamens project a little, and much longer than the lower lip. 

 The leaves have not the transparent dots of the last species 

 at all distinctly ; but traces of dots may be found upon 

 cutting into the leaves. The whole surface of the corolla is 

 studded with beautiful but microscopical pin-headed trans- 

 parent glandular hairs. 



117. ASTERACANTHA longifolia. Nees in Wall, plant. As. rar. iii. 

 p. 90. 



This is a handsome greenhouse herbaceous perennial, 

 seeds of which were sent to the Horticultural Society by 

 Mr. McCulloch, one of the gardeners to His Highness the 



