126 XCIII. LABIATA. [ Mierocorys, 
ticularis, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 113. A shrub with the 
upper axils S ite sessile. Caly: x rale d owering ovoid-globular, ; Sod 
hirsute with whitish aly shor hairs, rather above 1 line lon ng, the tee 
rather broad and usua wid shorter than the tube. Corolla and stamens 
not seen. Nuts pubescent. 
W. Australia, m 9rd coll, n. 196. 
14. M. obovata, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 569. An erect bushy 
shrub, the branches and Tum g shoots hoary with minute appressed 
hairs, the adult foliage glabrous. Leaves mostly in whorls of three, obo- 
vate 
; se, contracted into a very short petiole or almost sessile, flat, 
coriaceous, nerveless, 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers axillary, on very short 
[es los with small linear-setaceous ciliolate bracts. Calyx about 2 
nase long or at length rather er, rous or nearly so, the teeth 
te, rather broad, about as long as the tube. Corolla nearly à in. 
ie slightly pubescent outside, the tube longer than the calyx, the 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 69 and 3rd coll. n. 195. 
15. M. p s R. Br. Prod. 502. A bushy or spreadin i 
of 2 to 3 f ^ie "Matos and young shoots T dd wit n 
appressed hairs, the adult foliage often glabro n whorls o 
3, on very short id papai a. ovate, obtuse or scascely it) with recurved 
margins, green above, p r hoary and long retaining their pubescence 
„underneath, rarel T in. long. Flowers ‘purple ” or "puce 
coloured," ex axil why and distant, on short Ie the with minute bracts. 
w. eee Lucky Bay, R. Brown ; overhanging rocks, Cape Arid, Maxwell 
Some very bad specimens of Drummond's in herb. F. Mue ller, with shorter and more 
oblong pal fte and a more compact inflorescence, may nevertheless possibly belong to this 
atr ar Mount yp Bartl. in Pl. Preiss. i. 362; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. e 
from -i ount Manypeak ; Preiss, n. 2312, of which I amie saw a -— Wer 
specime rb. DC., and of which the corolla and stamens are un i 
probably. the Microcorys purpurea i 
