PEN ee ee ee er 
Lachnostachys. | XCII. VERBENACEJE. 39 
with 2 ovules in each cell, but as in L. ferruginea and L. albicans, only 
1 ovule enlarges, } 
W. Australia, Drummond, 5th coll. n. 237. 
have not succeeded in finding ripe seeds in our specimens, but F. Mueller has 
observed them to be albuminous with a straight embryo as in the allied genera. 
3. L. ferruginea, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 415. A tall shrub, covered 
with a soft dense cottony-wool, thicker than in Z. Waleottü almost 
neath but scarcely recurved, } to 1 in. long. Spikes rather dense, 1 to 
A jong, and 4 to 2 in. diameter, several in a terminal spreading 
panicle. Bracts (or floral leaves) orbicular, thick and brown, imbricate 
long, divided to below the middle into 8 or sometimes 7 narrow 
. albicans, Stamens quite marginal, without lobes between them. 
Young fruit as in L. albicans, but not seen ripe.—Moq. in DC. Prod. 
. 298. 
tee. we 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 14, 202, 438. 
4. L. Walcottii, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 140. A tall shrub, covered 
with a close but soft cottony-wool sometimes almost floccose. Leaves 
oblong-linear, obtuse, thick, with closely revolute margins, 2 to 1} in. 
long. Spikes not very dense but many-flowered, 1 to 2 in. long, 
numerous in dense corymbose or pyramidal panicles of several inches 
diameter, each flower a woolly ball of about 2 lines diameter, showin 
e 
be 
short rounded reticulate lobes. Stamens inserted in the notches an 
prominently decurrent in the tube to the base of the corolla, where there 
are a few hairs inside. Ovary glabrous or minutely pubescent. Fruit 
already somewhat enlar ed, apparently ripening 2 or 3 seeds and 
ivided i pi but not seen ripe. 
Pycnolachne ledifolia, 
Fragm. 1. ; 
Imp. Nat. Mose. 1863, ii. 215. 
Tf ia. Murchison river, Walcott and Oldfield, Drummond, 6 
1 . 
th coll. n. 
5. NEWCASTLIA, F. Muell. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, valvate in the bud. Corolla-tube cam- 
panulate, the limb of 5 nearly equal lobes: ens 5; anthers 
without appendages. Ovary small, completely 9-celled with 2 ovules 
in each cell laterally attached above the middle. Style slender, entire, 
or minutely 2-lobed. Fruit not exceeding the calyx, not succulent, 
apparently separating into 4 nuts.—Densely woolly or cottony $ bs. 
