118 XCIII. LABIATJE, | Hemigenia. 
Flowers solitary in the axils, on pedicels of 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines, with. 
small subulate bracts near the calyx. Calyx usually minutely hoary- 
horter than the tube rolla above twice as long as the calyx, gu 
brous outside. Connective of the upper anthers broad and bearded at 
W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd coll. n. 152. 
17. H. teretiuscula, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 111. A slender branch- 
ing shrub, with the habit and foliage of H. mestringioides, but quite 
glabrous, the pedicels very short, the calyx-teeth narrow, acute an 
about as long as the tube, and the corolla scarcely so large as in M. 
mestringioides, of which it is probably a variety. 
W. Australia. Stokes Inlet and Kydenup Range, Maxwell. 
18. H. purpurea, R. Br. Prod. 502. A slender twigey heath-like 
shrub or undershrub, glabrous or with longitudinal rows of a minute 
pubescence on the branches. Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4, linear-terete, - 
mucronate-acute or obtuse, channelled above, contracted at the base, ~ 
and sometimes shortly petiolate, rarely above 1 in. long. Flowers 
“purple” or “ blue,” solitary and pedicellate or almost. sessile in the 
i been as usual in the genus.—Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 56 
nth. Lab. Gen. et Sp. 457, and in DC. Prod. l.c. 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 19, — 
A. Cunningham, and many others. On comparing a large number of specimens Iam - 
now persuaded that those with four leaves in a whorl (H. Siebert, Benth.) do not other- — 
wise differ from those which have on y three. ‘ 
19. H. cuneifolia, Benth. A shrub robably of 2 or 3 ft., glabrous — 
except the corolla. Leaves in whorls o 3, oblong-cuneate, obtuse or 
Inucronate-acute, contracted into a rather long petiole, flat, green 
both sides, about 4 in. lone. Flowers small, solitary in the axils, shortly 
pedicellate. Bracts small, acute. Calyx 13 to 2 lines longs q 
PEN M 
N. S. Wales. George river, very rare, Woolls; Macleay river, Becker. —— , 
The above specimens are referred by F. Mueller, Fragm. vi. 110, to Wairini ved 
glabra, which has something of the general aspect of this one but differently shape 
