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Prunella, | XCIII. LABIATR. 87 
Anther-cells distinct, divaricate. Style bifid at the top. Nuts oblong, 
smooth.—Perennial herbs, usually decumbent at the base. rs in 
false-whorls of 6, forming dense ‘terminal spikes, with bract-like floral 
leaves, 
A genus of very few species, very widely dispersed over the temperate regions and 
tropical mountains of both the New and the Old World. The only Australian species 
1$ the common one over the whole range of the genus. 
ascen 
the foliage with short rigid hairs, rarely glabrous. Leaves petiolate, 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtu e, ire or somewhat 
toothed, 1.to 3 in. long. Flowers purplish blue or rarely white, 
false-whorls of 6, forming a dense terminal spike, the bract-like floral 
leaves broad, shortly pointed, often coloured, ibant as ong as the cal 
ip. Corolla varying from a little longer than the calyx to twice as 
long.—R. Br. Prod. 907 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 282. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and others; 
Hastings, Macleay, and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; New England, C. Stuart. 
Victoria. Towards the Glenelg, Robertson ; moist shady places, Creswick Creek, 
Ballan, &c., P. Mueller ; Emu Creek, Whan. — 
12smania. Port Dalrymple, R, Brown; common throughout the island by way- 
sides, in pastures, &c., J. D. Hooker. 
S. Australia. orrens river, F, Mueller; Rapide Bay, Malpas. : 
The species is common in Europe, northern Asia and North America, extending 
Within the tropics into the mountainous regions of Asia and South America. 
19. SCUTELLARIA, Linn. 
Calyx divided into 2 entire lips, the upper one bearing on its back a 
hollow scale-like protuberance. Corolla with a rather long tube, and 
Sr erbs or rarel i 
eaf, either opposite uud. axillary or in terminal racemes or spikes. 
The genus is widely distribut d of the warmer regions 
ed over the temperate and some 1 
h of the New and the Old World. "The iene species are both endemic, although 
ha of them bears considerable resemblance to a common northern one. 
bescent eaves often above 1i lines lon 
: elin.long. Corolla about 5 line g, : 
g lower lip much longer than the u i: dc ucc RO eB S. mollis. 
porous or nearly so. Leaves rarely above } in. Corolla about 3 lines humili 
ong, the lower lip rather longer than the upper s 0. « + 2. IS. humilis. 
