Physopsis.] XCII. VERBENACES. Al 
often reduced to a single cell and seed.—Woolly shrub. Leaves 
scattered, undivided. Flowers small, opposite and sessile, in a dense 
woolly spike, each one within a small bract. 
The genus consists of a single species endemic in Australia, differing from Mallo- 
phora chiefly in inflorescence. 
. P. spicata, Turez. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose. 1849, ii. 35, An 
erect shrub, with rather stout woolly-tomentose virgate branches. 
Leaves scattered or irregularly opposite, sessile, oblong, obtuse, with 
underneath. Spikes dense, either solitary or clustered at the ends of 
the branches, usually 1 to 1j in. long, each flower sessile within a 
linear bract, which is glabrous inside, woolly outside, and very 
very short. Ovary glabrous, inserted on à disk, in the very young bud 
completely 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell, but at the time of 
flowering usually very oblique with only one perfect ovule. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th coll. n. 234. 
7. MALLOPHORA, Endl. 
(Lachnocephalus, Turcz.) 
Calyx deeply divided into 4 lobes. Corolla-tube short, cylindrical, 
the limb of 4 equal spreading lobes. Stamens 4, shortly exserted ; 
anthers without appendages. Ovary 9-celled, with 2 ovules in each 
cell laterally attached above the middle. Style filiform with 2 
ear lobes. Fruit dry, 4-celled, with 1 seed in each cell _—Cottony or 
vide 
small, sessile, in dense cottony-woolly heads which are either solitary 
or corymbose at the ends of the branches. 
The genus is limited to a single species endemic in Australia, closely allied to the 
two preceding genera, but with a more divided style and the inflorescence nearer to 
1. M. globiflora, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 64. Stems from a woody 
base rather slender, apparently ascending or erect, branching, 1 to 
as the foli i e 
1} ft. high, covered as well as the foliage with a close white intricate 
tomentum. Leaves sessile or nearly so, linear or oblong, obtuse, } to 
nearly j i ng, narrowed at the base, rather thick, flat, cottony- 
white on both ed or becoming at length nearly glabrous above and 
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then rugose. Flower-heads dense, either solitary or more frequently 
several in terminal corymbs, each flower sessile within a woolly bract, 
the outer bracts of iisk rem rather larger than the others, but none of 
them exceeding the calyx. Calyx enveloped in a long dense wool 
