Hemigenia. | XCIII. LABIATA, 117 
tather shorter or longer than the tube. Corolla glabrous, at least in 
the bud. Anthers of H. sericea, the lower end of the connective of the 
lower ones slightly clavate or attenuate 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 77 (Preiss, a. 2320?). I have not seen Preiss's 
cimen: 
13. H, curvifolia, 7. Muell. Fragm. i. 210. A shrub of 2 or 8 ft., 
the branches wooll -hirsute, the young shoots silk -villous, the older 
foliage becomin ae rous. Leaves opposite, fne A ovate-lanceolate 
or oblong, mostly acute, rigid, complicate, recurved, 4 in. long or rather 
more. Flowers rather small, clustered in the axils and in every respect 
like those of the small-flowered varieties of H. sericea. 
v alia. Rocky hills, Hill river, Mer ca There are but very few small 
Renae more complete ones may possibly show this to be an extreme form of 
branched erect stems of ft., scabrous-pubescent or shortly hir- 
sute as well as the foliage. Leaves osite, or very rarely in whorls 
ot 9, oblong-cuneate, very obtuse or truncate e end, contracted at 
long as the calyx. Calyx nearly 3 lines long, the tee h acute, rather 
bro d, all equal, as long as the tube. Corolla only seen in bu on- 
nective of the upper anthers with the lower end dilated and bearded, 
that of the lower anthers attenuate and glabrous. 
Ww. Australia, Drummond. 
H .q 
the axils, on very short pedicels. “Bracts linear-subulate, usually ooh " 
Calyx 2 lines, or after flowering 3 lines long, often 
ha the upper anthers broad and bearded at the lower end, that of the 
ower anthers narrow and glabrous or scarcely minutely bearded. 
Ww. Australia, Drummond, 2nd coll. suppl. n. 49. 
H. westringioides, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 568. A slender 
w * 
above, obtuse or mucronate-acute, contracted at the base, 4 to 1 in. long. 
