284 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [labiates. 
Hab. Common by the margins of forests and bauks of streams throughout the Colony. — (El. Nov.) 
(v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia; New South Wales and Victoria. 
A bianchiug shrub, 5-7 feet high, everywhere glabrous, except the flowers, which have very hairy corollas.— 
Leaves lanceolate, serrate and toothed, 2-4 inches long. Flowers in axillary and terminal, leafless, paniculate 
racemes, large and showy. Calyx minutely fringed. Corolla about | inch in diameter. 
2. Prostanthera rotundifolia (Br. Prodr. 509) ; ramulis pubescentibus tomentosisve, foliis (parvis) 
petiolatis coriaceis rotundatis spathulatis cuneatisve integerrimis crenatisve glabris puberulisve, floribus 
axillaribus subracemosisve, calyce cinerascente labiis integerrimis, corolla pilosula, antherarutn calcaribus 
sequalibus obscuris loculis adnatis.— Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 560. (Gunn, 58.) (Tab. LXXXIX.) 
Hab. Abundant on the North and South Esk Kivers, Scott, Lawrence, etc. — (Fl. Nov.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and mountains of Yictoria. 
Mr. Gunn describes this as one of the most beautiful plants in the Colony, and very easily cultivated ; it is 
also very local, he not having found it anywhere but in the localities indicated : it forms a large, strong-smelling 
bu>h, 4-7 feet high, loaded with deep lilac or purple flowers.— Branches robust, pubescent or tomentose. Leaves 
small, i inch long, petioled, spathulate, cuneate or rotundate, coarsely crenate, rarely entire, minutely downy. 
Tlower* shortly pedicelled, axillary or arranged in terminal, subsecund, simple racemes. Ca^-tube deeply grooved ; 
lips short, rounded. Corolla about \ inch across, pubescent externally. Anthers included, the spurs very obscure. 
—Plate LXXXIX. Fig. 1, branch and leaf; 2, side, and 3, front view of flower; 4, corolla, laid open; 5, front, 
and *i, back view of stamen; 7, pistil: — all magnified. 
: 3. Prostanthera cuneata (Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 560) ; ramulis pubescentibus, foliis (parvis) 
coriaceis obovatis cuneatis obtusis integerrimis v. subcrenatis glabris marginibus recurvis, noribiir- axillaribas 
et subracemosis, calycis labiis amplis, corolla labio superiore brevi lobis truncatis antherarum calcare altero 
loculum bis superante altero loculo breviore adnato. [Gunn, 725.) (Tab. XC.) 
Hab. Sterile, gravelly soil on the banks of the South Esk, about nine miles from Launceston ; abun- 
dant, Gunn.— (Fl. Dec.) 
A small, powerfully odoriferous shrub, about 2 feet high, with rooting branches and white flowers. Stems and 
branches robust, pubescent. Leaves very small and coiiaceous, about 2-3 lines long, spreading, obovate or spathu- 
late, blunt, entire or nearly so, glabrous. Flowers in subterminal racemes. Calyx glabrous, very large, half as long 
again as the leaves, with large, broad lips, very different from those of P. rotundifolia. Corolla about as large as 
that of the last-named species, slightly pubescent.— Plate XC. Fig. 1, branch and leaf; 2, flower; 3, corolla, laid 
open ; 4, front, and 5, back view of stamens ; 6, pistil -.—all magnified. 
Gen. VI. WESTRINGIA, 8m. 
Calyx campanulatus, subsequaliter 5-dentatus v. 5-fidus, costatus. Corolla labium superius alte bi- 
lobum, planum. Stamina superiora fertilia, antheris dimidiatis, connectivo brevi sub insertione vix pro- 
ducto; inferiora antheris bipartitis cassis.— Frutices eglandulosi, sapius tomentosi, sempervireutes ; foliis 
cntegenimis, verticillatis ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis paucisve, Uhracteatis, albis. 
About twelve species of this genus are known, all of them Australian, and the majority natives of the south- 
east quarter of the continent. All are slender, with whorled, eglandular, evergreen, coriaceous leaves, often gla- 
brous above and white benezth. -Flowers axillary, solitary or few together, bibracteate, generally white. Calyx 
tive-toothed, five-angled. Corolla with a plane, bifid upper lip, and three-parted lower. Stamens distant, the two 
upper only pollmrferous, dimidiate ; the lower with bipartite, empty anthers. (Named in honour of /. P. Westring, 
a physician to the King of Sweden.) 
