No. 490. 
PHACA AUSTRALIS, 
de Order. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
The plant now before us has been found 
in a wild state upon mountains in the South 
of Europe: it is perennial, and of low 
growth, not often exceeding six inches in 
height. 
The flowers are produced in the month 
of May; they grow on spiked heads of 
from fifteen to twenty blossoms. The wings 
of the corolla are two cleft, which is some- 
what unusual. 
It is quite hardy, and may be kept very 
well in a small pot in light loam, or is a 
suitable plant for an artificial rock: it 
rarely admits of increase except by seeds, 
which have not yet been perfected with us. 
