Prostanthera. | XCIII. LABIATAE, 108 
The tie is near P. Baxteri, e S. scat Tintiogniahed by the calyx, very near also 
to the eastern — axicola, but the 
Var. ? cea. imio aey ie dation and abi distinctly petiolate, 
sery-white o on "both sides, with the same tomentum as the branches.—-Drummon , 4th 
coll, 
6. * nivea, A. Cunn. in Benth. Lab. Gen. et Sp. 459, and in DC. 
Prod. xii. 561. A beautiful shrub of 3 to 6 ft. , glabrous except the 
iilis a or sprinkled with a few appressed hairs, especially on the young 
shoots, and usually of a pale green. Leav es sessile, linear-terete with 
ar 
eypér ones forming interrupted lea : 
than the calyx, with short setaceous bracts. Calyx 24 to 3 lines lon 
long as the calyx. Anthers with one HEN about twice as long as 
the cell, the other short and adnate.— Dot. . 5658. 
N.S. Wales. Barren rocky hills on - Lachlan direi, A. Cunningham ; Castle- 
m9 steed c Moore ; New England, C. 
P ria. Mountains of Bacchus Marsh, Mount Korong, Mount Hope, Station 
tal, T F. Mueller, 
Var. indii. Branches and foliage hoary or white with Pr padie hairs, the young 
shoots silky. Flowers rather larger.—Castlereagh river, C. M 
37. P. s 25. 
branched «dere sometimes qui ite low , sometimes attaining 5 or,6 ft., 
glabrous or the young shoots hoary or silky with short appressed hairs, 
1 e or 
h ow often $ in. the floral ones gradually smaller, the upper ones 
sorter than the c lyx. Flowers all axillary, but upper ones 
crowded into terminal leafy racemes ikes, Pedicels very short. 
Calyx-tube not lines long, prominently striate, the u 
obtuse, often n. lo “g when in fruit, the lower lip not half so large. 
| deat Newcastle range, Suthe 
rland. FE 
eges hue: e Lachlan and Darling to the Barrier Range, Victorian 
1 er Irpedi tions, 
À S. Australia. Cuin aka, Arkaba, and Lake Torrens, F. Mueller ; towards Cooper's 
ee Whecler ; Lake Gillies, Burkitt (a short-leaved form, and another with narrow 
EU hoary leaves), Mount Morp hett, M ‘Doua Stuart's Expedition 
and — difficult to distinguish 
In general it has shorter broader leaves, a more dense inflorescence, the upper 
of the calyx longer and not so broad, and the dk more glabrous. 
