100 XCIII. LABIATJE. | Prostanthera, 
Pedicels very short. Bracts linear, ciliate, often as long as the calyx- | 
tube. Calyx 24 to 3 lines long or even longer when in fruit, the tube 
hore striate, the lips nearly equal, at least as long as the tube, 
road and entire, or the lower one emarginate. Corolla white with 
purple spots, nearly glabrous, twice as long as the calyx.  Anthers 
with one appendage about twice as long as the cell, the other short and 
Slatted oci Hok: f. Fl. Tasm. i. 284. t. 60. 
Victoria. f many of the Australian Alps, Haidinger and Munyong 
ranges, Mount Kosciusko and others, at an elevation of 4000 to 7000 ft., F. Mueller. 
pm Sterile gravelly soil on the S. Esk river, abundant, Gunn, Archer and — 
others. 
foral ones similar but smaller. Flowers all axillary, but the upper 
ones sometimes forming terminal interrupted leafy racemes.  Pedicels 
equal, entire, without any or only a very slight trace of the 
transverse downy line of the three following species. Corolla sprinkled | 
with a few hairs or hairy all over, about twice as long as the calyx. — 
Stamens longer than in most species of this section, and the anther- - 
cells more divergent; the longest appendage nearly twice as long 85 - 
the cell, the other short and adnate.—Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 561. — | 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, A. Cunningham 
and others. 
19. P. phylicifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 19. A robust bushy | 
shrub sometimes small but attaining often several ft., glabrous or 
she roms with Mig short somewhat crisped hairs. Leaves 
sessile or nearly so, oblong-linear, obtuse, entire, with revolute margins, — 
usually thicker and broader than in P. linearis, i s al 
calyx, or at some distance from it. Calyx 2 to 24 or rarely 3 lines 
long, the tube prominently striate, the lips ovate, the upper one with à 
transverse rather broa cottony line inside at the base, the lower onè - 
ge d. Glass-houses, F. Mueller, a single specimen in the Hookerian her- ; 
N. S. Wales. New England, C. Moore. Y 
Victoria. Mount M'Farlane, Mitta-Mitta mountains, rocks at Maneroo, F. Mueller. 
^ 20. P. decussata, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 126. A robust shrub of fe | 
eet, with numerous short leafy branches, pubescent or hirsute with 
crisped or spreading hairs, Leaves sessile or nearly so, crowded 
