280 FLORA OP TASMANIA. \LaMata. 
1 . Cynoglossum Australe (Br. Prodr. 495) j erectum, caule robusto simplici v. ramoso patentim 
piloso, foliis petiolatis anguste lanceolatis utrinque substrigosis, racemis simplicibus ramosisve, pedicellis 
brevibus ebracteatis v. inferioribus bracteatis, nucibus echinatis glochidiatis. — DC. Prodr. x. 151. (Gunn, 
88, 525.) 
Hab. Common in good dry soil. — (Fl. Oct.-Dec.) (v. v.) 
Disteib. New South Wales and Victoria. 
A tall, robust, erect, generally branching plant, 1-3 feet high, covered everywhere with short, white, rather 
rigid hairs, which are spreading on the stem and appressed on the leaves.— Leaves petiolate, the uppermost sessile; 
lower elongate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-6 inches long, sometimes obscurely sinuate ; upper shorter. Racemes simple 
or compound, much elongated. Pedicels as long as the calyx, ebracteate, or the lower sometimes bracteate. Flowers 
rather small, \ inch across, white or blue. Nuts depressed, covered on the outer face and margins with spreading, 
short, stiff bristles, barbed at the tips.— Some of Gunn's specimens may be referable to Brown's C. suaveolens, 
which is said to differ in the upper leaves being semiamplexicaul, and the racemes bracteate, and the spines on the 
fruit more regular and equal. 
2. Cynoglossum latifolium (Br. Prodr. 495) • procumbens, ramosus, canlibus elongatis gracilibus 
flaccidis pedicellis petiolis costaque folii subtus remote breviter aculeatis, foliis petiolatis late ovatis acutis 
superne asperis, pedicellis gracilibus elongatis extra-axillaribus, nucibus valde depressis breviter glochidiatis. 
— DC. Prodr. x. 156. (Gunn, 861.) 
Hab. Circular Head, in very damp, shaded situations, Gunn. 
DiSTJtiB. Victoria and New South Wales. 
flaccid, much branched, prostrate, several feet long, leafy, aculeate, 
i on the branches, petiole, midrib below, and pedicel. Leaves petioled, 
inches long, often oblique at the base, glabrous below, rough on the upper surface. Pedi- 
iu^r, spreaumg, rising from the branches, slightly curved. Flowers rather small. Sepals lanceolate- 
Nuts much compressed, divaricating, cuneate, densely glochidiate. 
Nat. Ord. LVL LABIATE. 
A very extensive Natural Family, of which upwards of 130 Australian species are known, belonging 
to about 20 genera; of these, 7 genera and all but 6 or 8 species are confined to extratropical Australia 
and lasmama; about 20 species are tropical, and these include aU the Australian species found in other 
countries, except Prunella vulgaris; of the remaining 110 species nearly an equal number inhabit the 
south eastern and south-western quarters, very few indeed being common to both. The European genera 
Wuna Sl J?mndla ' ScUteUaria > T ™™™>™&4wa are confined to South-eastern Australia or 
Gen. I. MENTHA, L. 
Cat,, campanulas v. tubulosus, 5-dentatus. Corolla tubo inclusa, 2-labiata, limbo aubaquali 5-fido. 
- -eta, chstantia; filamentis glabris; antherarum loculis parallelis. Stylus apice bre- 
siccas, Iffives.— Herba3 fe>; verticillastris scepius multiftoris; bracteis subulate ; 
tap a „ 'pi'/jjurascentibus. 
The Tasmanian plants included by Bentham in this 
t differing in the stamens and corolla. The 
i small herbs, resembling Micromeria 
is abundant in Europe and i 
species are known.— The generic characters are a tubular or campanulate, five-toothed 
