Plate 2582. 



DICRASTYLIS CAENEGIEI, Hems!. 



VERBENACEiE. 



D. Carnegiei, HemsL [sp. nov.) ; florum capitulis parvis paniculatim 

 dispositis. 



Fraticulus dense ramosus, 8-10 poll, altus, undique albo-tomentosus, 

 saltern in siccis, ramis gracillimis. Folia sessilia, crassa, mollia, lineari- 

 lanceolata vel anguste oblonga, 4-6 lin. longa. Flores 2-3 lin. longi et 

 diametro, subsessiles, capitati, capitulis pedunculatis paniculatis. 

 Calycis crassi dentes breves, deltoidei. Corollce tubus calycem paullo 

 excedens ; lobi cequales rotundati, intus extusque hirsuti. Stamina 5, 

 brevissime exserta, filamentis glabris. Ovarium pilisramosis vestitum, 

 stylo bifido stamina vix aequante. 



Australia : interior of the north-west, in about 126° long, and 

 22° 30' lat., Carnegie. 



This is one of a few plants collected by the Hon. David Carnegie on 

 his famous journey across the desert in 1896. It was found on the 

 steep sides of sand-ridges over an area covered by two or three days' 

 travel. Its perfume he describes as resembling that of lavender. An 

 rnperfect specimen (202), collected byMcDougal Stuart on his journey 

 n the interior of Australia in 1859, may belong to this species, as well 

 as another fragment (G5), collected in the vicinity of Lake Eyre by a 

 Mr. Andrews, in 1875. — W, Bottinc Hemsley. 



Fig. I, a flower; 2, pistil and part of calyx; 3, corolla laid open; 4, vertical 

 section of ovary ; 5, crots section of the same ; 6, a branched hair from the ovary. 

 All enlarged. 



