Lyeopus. | XCIII. LABIATJE. 85 
usually emitting stolones. Flowers small, usually numerous, in dense 
axillary false-whorls. Bracts within the false-whorls minute, or the 
outer ones as long as the calyx. 
enus consists of very species, or varieties, dispersed over the temperate 
regions of the northern hemisphere, the only Australian Species scarcely differing from 
some of the northern forms. 
l. L. australis, R. Br. Prod. 500. An erect herb, attaining some- 
airs. Leaves 
longer than the tube. Corolla scarcely exceeding the calyx, the lobes 
shorter than the tube. Staminodia small, usually clavate at the end, 
but apparently variable; perfect stamens longer or shorter than the 
corolla.—Benth. in DC. Prod. xi 
Queensland. Burnett river, Daly. 
N. es. Port Jackson, R. veh and others ; New England, C. Stuart. 
Victoria. Port Phillip R. Brown; Wendu river, Robertson ; near Melbourne, 
F. Mueller 
q Tasmania, Derwent river, R. Brown; not uncommon in moist shady places, 
unn 
S. Australia. Third Creek, F. Mueller, 
Trips III. Mona —Sta 
oblong-linear perfect cell, the other cell either entirely abortive or 
barren and deformed, or rarely perfectin species or genera not Austra- 
an, the connective usually elongated and filiform. Corolla usually 
2-lipped. Nuts smooth or minutely granular. 
Calyx 2-]i ped, the upper lip entire or with 3 minute teeth, the 
lower lip 2- dft. Corolla with the upper lip erect, concave or arche 
; M í 
trees, exceedingly diversified in habit and inflorescence. 
A very large genus, widely distributed ove 
Y 
Got although i j ies are mountain plants. In 
Australia he within the tropics the majority of species a 
formed or quite rudimentary, — almost perfect.—Herbs, shrubs or 
l. S. plebeia, R. Br., Prod. 501. An erect branching pubescent or 
hairy coarse annual, 1 to 2 or even 8 ft. high, the inflorescence some- 
