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TWO NEW SPECIES OF PROSTANTHERA FROM 

 NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By R. T. Baker, F.L.S., Assistant Curator Technological 

 Museum, Sydney. 



(Plates XXII. -XXIII.) 



Prostanthera DISCOLOR, sp.nov. 



(Plate xxii.) 



A tall slender shrub, 6 to 9 feet high, branches terete, branch- 

 lets only slightly angular; branches, branchlets, and calyx very 

 hoary; branchlets slender and often nodding. 



Leaves quite glabrous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 narrowing into a petiole 2 to 3 lines long, | to over an inch long 

 and 1 J to rarely 3 or 4 lines broad, flat, entire, light underneath, 

 dark coloured above, the midrib very prominent on the under- 

 side, particularly towards the petiole, but impressed above. 



Flowers small in terminal compact heads or racemes, floral 

 leaves reduced in size and very deciduous. Pedicels short, about 

 half the length of the calj^x. Calyx striate, very hoary pubes- 

 cent particularly towards the base, the lips "blue," H lines long, 

 both lips entire, the upper one slightly longer than the lower, and 

 not so broad. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx, minutely 

 pubescent, the lower lip exceeding the others. Stamens not 

 exserted. Anthers mostly without any appendage to the con- 

 nective, in fact, only rarely present, quite glabrous. 



Hah.— At the foot of Cox's Gap Road, Murrumbo, Goulburn 

 River, N.S.W. (R.T.B.) 



As the anther appendages are only rarely met with in this sjaecies 

 it might perhaps be placed in the Section K 1 a n d e r i a of 

 Bentham's Table of the species of this genus, but the corolla is 

 not similar in shape to that described under this group, and as 

 this latter feature is such a well marked characteristic I have 



