Dicrastyles. | XCII. VERBENACER. 43 
Style-branches gisberis, about as long as the entire part. Fruit small, 
depressed Pom ar, not seen quite ripe.—Pityrodia exsuccosa, F. Muell. 
use, narrowed at the base, j to a lo ery thick soft 
and reticulate-rugose, but the wrinkles concealed by the wool till it 
rs off wit e. Flowers very numerous, in broad trichotomous 
long, the lobes as long as the tube and equal. Stamens inserted a 
little below the lobes and as long as or rather longer than them. 
Ovary tomentose. Style hairy with glabrous branches about as long 
as the entire part.— Pityrodia myriantha, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 236. 
W. Australia. Northern districts, Drummond; Murchison river, Oldfield ; Dirk 
Hartog's island, Martin. : 
3. D. reticulata, Drumm. in Hook. Kem Journ, vii. 57. An under- 
shrub or shrub with the general habit of D. fulva, the stems erect or 
brownis aves opposite or scattered, sessile, oblong or ovate- 
lanceolate, obtuse, usually smaller than in ulva, less narrowed at 
the base rgins revolute, much wrinkled above and reticulate 
© * 
in dense heads of i to 1 in. diameter, which 
i s or solitary on the side 
racts often leaflike, the inner ones small. Pedicels 
ided to th 
base into linear segments. Corolla 2 to 2} lines long, the lobes shorter 
than the tube. Stamens longer than the corolla-lobes. Ovary tomen- 
tose. Style rather longer than in D. fulva, hairy with glabrous 
branches. a 
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th coll. n. 94. 
Mallophora corymbosa, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 64, appears to me from a cursory in- 
spection without examination of the specimen in the ienna herbarium, to be a very 
4. D. parvifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 160. An erect undershrub or 
shrub of 1 to 2 ft., with numerous rather slender branches, the whole 
plant hoary or white with a close tomentum. Leaves linear, obtuse, 
