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82 XCIII. LABIATA. | Mentha. 
ones. The six following Australian species are all endemic. They appear as d : 
to define by positive characters, and to pass into each e as gradually as bes 
allied to M. arvensis in the northern hemisphere. They all belong to libe j 
peti false-whorls, and one of them comes very near diced 6 the almost pue 
JM. arvensis, the genuine forms of which have not Bowovat as yet appeared in | 
snipe 
Leaves all toothed. Flowers pe i in the false whorls. ; 
Pedicels raid as long as the calyx 1. M. laxiflora. 
Leaves mostly toothed. Flowe wath less numerous, "the corolla f 
fully 5 lines long. Pedicels s 2. M. grandi 
Lose all or mostly roy Pedicels very short (except ‘where 
e flowers are ver. 
Flowers Hp fear] lar rge. Nee Lic subulate. Corolla 
under 4 lines long. Leaves olate 3. M. australis. 
Flowers less end and d ler. Calyx- -teeth lanceolate- 
subula eaves small o 4. M. gracilis. 
Flowers vals in the false- whorls did small. Calyx-teeth lanceo- 1 
late, somewhat hairy inside. Leaves nearly sessile , . 5, M. serpyllifolia. 
oen feit in the false-whorls and small. sic short, 
densely hairy inside. Leaves ovate to oblong-lin 6. M. satureioides, 
Besides the ors the two following European species indi been sent amongst the - 
p Tea Australia. 
eur i n DC. Prod. xii. 168. Stems erect, 1 to 2 feet high, - 
glabrous a A vella n ‘the foliage aves sessile or rly vate-lanceolate, 
larly se Ise-whorls in a loose cylindrical terminal leafless spike, the floral leaves 
reddat tó i tà narrow bracts. Calyx usually hairy.— Borders of streams, Mount Lofty 
. aqua u; Lilinss ; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 170. Erect, 1 to 2 ft. high, m 
less consi “Leaves petiolate, ovate or rr ne eolate, serrate, ES mag's ones sina 
Flo 
except the upper ich are reduced to small brac merous in & - 
rather large ental à ek ay ipsa I with the addition hrer of one o — 
more similar false-whorls a little lower down n the upper axils.—Border s of streams, 
&c., Karrie ‘Dale and ril cir the Ware sfondi, W. Australia, Walcott; ; Tone 
river, Maxwell. : 
5 laxiflora, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 174. Stems weak, p 
cumbent, from under 1 ft. to near 2ft. high, more or less Ms. e 
the angles as well as the foliage. Leaves petiolate, ovate or ovate- | 
or imila pire i 
d. 
— Port ape Ba Gunn; — Tenge, Mount William, Mount Disappoints i 
Mer Eka &e., F. t, Green : 3 
'This is not ensily y be distinguished from some rather anomalous loose pe 1 
aropo forms of M. arvensis, the foliage is quite different from that of the more com- 
n Au come specie 
E rosas enth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 862 and in DU 
ra xii. 698. Softly met ar Leaves petiolate, ovate, ne 
