40 XCII. VERBENACEZ. [ Neweastlia, 
Leaves opposite, undivided. Flowers opposite and sessile, in dense 
terminal woolly spikes. Bracts and bracteoles small and deciduous. 
The genus is endemic in d and peni allied to Physopsis and Mallophora, 
differing from them chiefly in 
Wool loose.  Corolla-lobes det beds dios than the 
NEUE (iD Her A. Oli on dak. eost occ Vceindaliidut, 
Tomentum close. Ronen acloer: diei in a fine ^ goin Sta- 
xserted . War don e 
1. N. clado diichs, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 22, Fr 
184, t. i. and iii. 21. An erect shrub, attai ae 2 to 3 ft, B 
i ranching hairs, and 
strongly scented. Leaves sessile, narrow-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 
first short Le dense but lengthening sometimes to 2 in. and inter- 
rupted. Bracts ovate or eiae libel 
spike, but falling off early. Calyx -— sd lines long, very woolly, the 
lobes rather shorter than the tube. olla ia eie — the tube 
ever quite ri 
N. Australia. Sturt's Creek, near Mount Mueller, F. Mueller. 
2. N. spodiotricha, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 91, t. 21. A shrub or 
Ple d clothed with a rather shorter and ^ idit tomentum than 
that of N. cladotricha. Leaves very shortly petiolate, ovate- S o 
l eral on at the base, forming a pyramidal icy Bracts not seen. . 
obes much shorter than 
near the to 
N. Between lat. 17° 30' and 18° 30', M' Douall Stuart. 
6. PHYSOPSIS, Turczan. 
tubular, 4-toothed. Corolla-tube short, c — fee: limb 
Stamen 1 ded i 
Calyx tu 
of 4 nearly equal enin E lobes. 
, include tube; 
anthers without appe ages. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 per in am h cell, 
latera dmn attached omm the middle, but usually only 1 ovule perfect. 
Style slender, very shortly Q-lobed. Fruit dry, enclosed in the calyx, — 
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