378 NEW AND INTERESTING ACANTHACE^. 



ffiqualiter 4-lobulato, externe puberulo ; staminodiis 3 minutis ; 

 capsula glabra. 



Hab. Wagga Mountain, Mrs. E. Lort Phillips. 



Apparently a small low-growing plant, specimens not exceeding 

 5 in. Branches slender, densely covered with appressed 2-armed 

 hairs, among which are short capitate glandular hairs. Leaves 

 2 to 2-5 cm. long, including a very short petiole (1-3 mm.) by 

 6-7 mm. broad ; sage-green. Pedicel 1*5 mm. long, bracteoles 

 immediately beneath the calyx, 10 mm. long by scarcely 3 mm. broad, 

 margin and midrib hairy as in the leaves. Outer calyx-segments 

 with a line of similar stiff white hairs outside on the midrib, and a 

 few short glandular hairs, 11 mm. long by 3 mm. broad ; inner seg- 

 ments with a line of hairs running from two-thirds the length up, 

 5-3 mm. long by less than 1 mm. broad. Corolla 11 mm. long, 

 tube 5 mm. long, anterior lobe 5*5 mm. each way, lobes of the 

 posterior lip rounded, 3 by 2-7 mm. Filaments of fertile (two) 

 stamens G-5 mm. long, anthers scarcely 2 mm. ; staminodes 

 minute, subulate, about 5 mm. long. Ovary girt at the base with 

 a short asymmetrical disc, loculi 1-ovuled, with a minute rudiment 

 of a lower second ovule. Capsule unripe. 



Apparently near B. paucijiom Schw., whatever that insufficiently 

 known species may be. 



Justicia (§ Tyloglossa) Phillipseae, sp. n. Fruticosa diffusa 

 hispidula, foliis parvis breviter petiolatis ovatis vel lanceolatis 

 obtusis ; floribus sessilibus in cymis dichasiis axillaribus 1-pauci- 

 floris contractis ; bracteis parvis foliaceis, bracteolis minutis ovatis; 

 calyce fere ad basin aequaliter 5-partito, segmentis angustis superne 

 attenuatis acutis 3-nerviis ; corolla Ifete purpurea sparse puberula 

 tubo veutricoso, labio postico truncate-ovato apice breviter bilobo, 

 antico 3-lobo, lobo medio e basi truncata oblongo, lobis lateralibus 

 paullo angustioribus ; antherte loculo inferiore appendiculato. 



Hab. Wagga Mountain ; Upper Sheik ; and between Debar 

 and Hammer, Mrs. E. Lort Phillips. 



A shrub with long slender terete spreading branches. Leaves 

 like the stem, more or less shortly hispidulous ; petioles 2-3 mm. 

 long, blades from 6 to 20 mm. long. Flowers apparently solitary, 

 but arranged in contracted axillary dichasial cymes, on which 

 generally only one develops. Bracts ovate, 5 mm. long ; bracteoles 

 1 mm. long, immediately below the calyx. Calyx-segments 7 mm., 

 tapering upwards from a base of a little over 1 mm. Corolla-tube 



5 mm. long, with a diameter of 2 mm. ; posterior lip suberect, 



6 mm. long, narrowing upwards from the base, where it is 4 mm. 

 broad, to 2 mm. at the shortly bilobed apex. Anterior lip 1 cm. 

 long, centre lobe 4 by 4 mm., lateral lobes 4 by 3-5 mm. Stamens 

 5 mm. long, upper anther-cell 1 mm. long, lower slightly larger, 

 with a basal appendage about half its length. Ovary oblong-ovate, 

 scarcely 2 mm. long, girt with an annular disc '5 mm. high. Style 



7 mm. long, sparsely hairy at the base ; the transparent walls 

 allow the enclosed pair of superposed ovules to be seen in each 

 cell. 



Near J. calcarata Hochst., from which it differs in habit; in its 



