Prostanthera. | XCIII. LABIATJE, or 
į forming little compact terminal racemes, the small bract-like floral leaves 
very deciduous. Calyx shortly pubescent, 14 to 2 lines long, the tube 
the cell.—Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 563; Bot. Reg. t. 1072; P. retusa, 
Sieb. Pl. Exs. not of R. Br. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 199 and 
Benth. Lab. Gen. et Sp. 455, and in DC. Prod. xii. 563.—Springwood, Blue Mountains, 
growing with the typical form, A. Cunningham. 
0. P. incana, A. Cunn. in Benth. Lab. Gen. et Sp. 405, and in DC. 
Prod. xii. 563. A handsome shrub of 5 or 6 ft., more densely hirsute 
and more robust in all its parts than P. violacea and P. rugosa, some va- 
. Neties of which it sometimes resembles. Leaves on very short petioles, 
ovate, homeo crenate, bullate-rugose, with recurved margins, 4 to 
6 lines ong, the lower floral ones ids but smaller. Flowers small, in 
Several pairs crowded together at the ends of the branches into short 
appendages adnate, one shortly free, but shorter than the cell, the 
other still shorter. 
N. S. Wales. Rocky ridges, Nepean river, A. Cunningham. , Bome imperfect 
specimens from Bent’s river, Woolls, probably belong to the same species, 
ll. P. hirtula, F. Muell. “A shrub of 3 to 5 ft., pubescent or hir- 
sute with the rigid hairs of P. mari olia, to which this species is nearly 
etim r il icels sho b 
Setaceous, Calyx hirsute, 24 to 3 lines long, both the lips broad and 
nearly equal, entire or the lower one retuse. Corolla nearly twice ^as 
long as the calyx, glabrous or slightly hairy. Anthers with both the 
*ppendages shortly exceeding the cells. : 
iGo Buffalo Range, Mount Disappointment, F. Mueller; Grampians, Wil- 
Var, angustifolia, Leaves narrow and rather less hirsute.—Genoa Peak, F. Mueller, 
7. P. denticulata, R. Br. Prod. 509. A robust shrub, with virgate 
9t ong and loose sometimes slender but rigid branches, puis 
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