LabiatcB.'] FLORA OP TASMANIA. 
3 constante (sepalo superiore excluso squamfeformi, lateralibus connatis), labio inferion pene* 
tubo longe exserto, bilabiata; labio superiore ge i avexo, loins latexatiboi 
liberis v. cum labio superiore coalitis. Stamina exserta, omnia fert.ilia ; antheris pet peria approximate 
inferiorum dimidiatis, superiorum loculis cordatis subdivaricatis. Stylus lobo superior, 
scse, tuberculosce, glabrae v. pubescentes. — Herbce, rarim (ration ; Borib 
foliis jloralibus bracteatis, v. em Iracteatam dispositis. 
A very large genus, containing nearly 100 species, of which only two are Australian ; the majority inhabit t!i. 
mountains of tropical America. The genus is found in almost all parts of the temperate and trop« 
in South Africa.— The Tasmanian S. humilis is a small, suberect, glabrous or puberulous, herbaceous plant, fc-16 
inches long, with slender, ascending, square stems, and small, petiolate, broadly linear and axillary, 
celled flowers. Leaves 3-4 lines long, broadly ovate-cordate, blunt, sinuate-erenate, punctate ben 
small, secund, on pedicels about as long as the petioles. Calyx smooth, two-lipped ; upper tip d. vidimus, <>t tbiw 
sepals, of which two lateral are combined, and the upper forms a flat scale on their back; lower lip persistent 
Corolla blue, its tube longer than the calyx, two-lipped; upper lip arched, lower three-lobed, lateral lobes broad. 
middle the longest. Stamens four, all fertile. Anthers conniving in pairs. Nucules enclosed in the ehxed eah v 
before maturity, when the upper lip of the calyx falls away. (Name from tcttidkm, a shield; m allusion to the 
upper scale-like sepal.) 
1. Scutellaria humilis (Br. Prodr. 507); glabra v. strigoso-pubescens, caule humili pan.' nmoeo 
gracili, foliis breviter petiolatis late ovato-cordatis obtusis grosse crenatis, floribus pants axillanl.us opj 
sitis secundis.— Benth. in DC Prodr. xii. 427. {Gunn, 59.) 
Hab. Yery common in rich soil in the northern parts of the Island, as at Rocky Cape, Georgetown/ 
etc.— (PL Nov.-Jan.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and Victoria. 
Gen. V. PROSTANTHERA, Lab. 
Calyx campanulatus, tubo brevi 13-striato, labiis indivisis, fructiferis clausis. Corolla ringens, fence 
campanulata, labio superiore erecto subplano, inferiore patente. Stamina 4, fertilia; antherarum loculis 
parallelis, connectivo subtus ealcarato, calcare interdum obscuro. Stylus breviter bifidaa.--] 
dulosi, graveolentes ; foliis oppositis ; floribus axillaribus v. in racemos axillae ■ 
pedunculis bibracteatis. 
A large genus of shrubby plants, confined to Australia and Tasmania, whence UutI 
solitary exception. ; 
pical New South Wales and Adelaide. The genus is replaced in South-western Anstn 
and Eemigenia, which number an almost equal amount of species, and ot a 
eastern quarter.-SMs, generally strongly scented, being covered a :tl, . - 1 
axillary, or owing to the smallness of the floral leaves appearing to be sp 
lipped, the lips entire, closed over the fruit. Corolla with a short tube and t 
lip bifid, lower three-lobed, the lobes entire or bifid. Stamens all fertile, 
thickened connective. Spur* often two, bearded at the apex, pointing downwards. / 
very scanty albumen. (Name from Trpoo-ft?*??, a process, and av&rjp.) 
1. Prostanthera lasianthos (Lab. FL Nov. Holl. ii. 18. 1. 157) ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis dentate 
serratis glabris, raccmis paniculatis, corollis utrinque hirsutis, ^™^Z° ZT nlfZ 143- 
rante, breviore loculo a.quilongo edneto.-*. Prodr. 508; And, Bot. Rep. 10. t. 641; Bot. Reg. 143, 
Bot. Mag. 2434; DC. Prodr. xii. 559. {Gwm, 57.) 
