52 XCII. VERBENACEJE. [ Pityrodia. 
and sometimes floccose on the branches, shorter and more scabrous on 
the leaves. Leaves opposite, obovate or “cuneate, very obtuse, contracted 
below the middle, sessile and usually dilated or ‘almost auriculate at the 
"à reticulate on both sides, quite flat 
or the margins recurved only at the narrow base. Flowers ‘ ‘ blue,” 
ring of hairs, the lowest lobe much broader than the others. Stamens 
shortly exceeding the corolla; anther-cells with short appendages at 
the base. Fruit woolly-hairy, ramer obave 1 line long, and broader 
in Freyc. Voy. Bot 
W. Australia. sharks Ses Gaudi ichaud; waste places, Sharks Bay, rare, Milne. 
The specimens examined being far advanced, the details of the flower are chiefly ta taken 
from Gaudichaud's figure A descriptio: 
. Oldfieldii, F. Muell. An erect shrub of 2 to 3 ft., the 
iunis and leaves thicker and more densely tomentose-woolly or 
othe 
e 
boidal, pom bites: flat 
long, narrowed into a is pert or almost sessile but not dilated at 
ase 
the base. Flowers “pink,” solitary, or 3 together on very short 
6 1 
Chloanthes Oldfieldii, Lu Tuell. piii . 234; Quoya Oldfieldii, F. 
Muell. di iv. 80, i n Q. ege Gaud., to which it is referred 
by F. Mu Fragm. v 
W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield; Drummond, 6th coll. n. 139. 
11. P. atriplicina, F. Muell. A tall much-branched shrub, w 
an ost floccose on the branches. Leaves opposite, Fidem. ovate | 
ier or orbicular, } to above 1 in. diameter, con ntracted into a short | 
h 1 
tomentose outside, much dilated, the lobes short and broad, the lov 3 
