50 XCII. VERBENACEJE, [ Pityrodia. 
e Victorian specimens, from near Swan Hill on the Murray, W. Ross, may be- 
um p some Prod, ia allied to P. uncinata or P. Bartlingii, but being without 
flower or fruit they cannot be determined. 
5. P. verbascina, F. Muell. A stout erect shrub, densely clothed 
as in P. Oldfieldii with. cotton gari wool, often floccose and sometimes 
co 
veins concealed by the wool, the floral ones smaller, the upper ones 
shorter than the calyx. Flowers very shortly we usually | 
m together in the ET er axi a — a dense or inter- 
ted more or less leafy spike. Bracts small or none. Calyx about 
b ines long, = woolly, ver sen divided into narrow 3-nerved 
segments. Corolla about 4 in. long, tomentose, the tube much dilated, 
the 2 upper lobes short and broad, the 2 emen ones smaller and 
. triangular, the lowest one very m much larger and more than twice as 
road as any of the others. Stamens included or shortly are 
usually ripening only 
2 seeds (one to each cael but occasionally all 4 are enlarged.— 
t uell Fragm. i. 233; Quoya verbaseina, F. 
Muell. Fragm. iv. 80 
W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 140. 
6. P. racemosa, Benth. An erect shrub or undershrub of about 
2 ft., densel etes with white wool 
sometimes shorter and closer. Leaves opposite, A or oval, very 
obtuse, sessile and sometimes bap lonii o above l im. 
tomen ntum, otherwise flat. Mover " tio in colour and I 
in in shape those “of the garden sage,” solitary or more frequently m 
e of 3 to 5, the peduncles wt variable in net but always | 
o 5 narrow membranous 3-nerved segments. Coro 
nearly 1 in. bor: the tube much dilated upwards, the 4 upper lobes | 
marci e Tek T length, broad, Pieds pubescent outside, the lowest | 
twice he othersand glabrous. Stamens as long as the tube 
short ar ndages. Ovules attached near the top, with short funicles | 
mosa, eden, 1. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1863. i. 194; Chloan: 
stachyodes, or Quoya stachyodes, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 50, vi. 158; Der 
malla axillaris and D. terminalis, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. ere 12. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd coll. 141, t Walter, 
Herb. F. Mueller, collector not named, a — I TS 
