48 Australian Plants. 
A shrub with intricate branches, about six feet high. 
Flowers large white. 
This species forms an intermediate link between Eremo- 
phila and Pholidia. To the same genus I refer also Myoporum 
brevifolium of Bartling. 
LABIATAE. 
43. Prostanthera spinosa. 
Branches numerous, spreading, hispid; twigs short, spines- 
cent, foliate at the base; leaves lanceolate or roundish-ovate, 
acute, entire or repand, glabrous or below imperfectly hairy; 
peduncles thin, axillary, solitary, surpassing twice the length 
of the calyx, at the middle bibracteate; calyx sparingly his- 
pid, its lips entire, the lower one hardly longer; corolla of 
filac-colour, outward but little hairy; longer spur of the an- 
thers exceeding nearly twice the cell; the other abbreviate. 
On springs and irrigated rocks in the Grampians. 
This species is remarkable for its prickly branchlets. 
A4, Prostanthera coccinea. 
Branches hirtellous; leaves. small, somewhat thick, with 
reflexed apex, linear-oblong or simply linear, blunt, flat or 
on the margin slightly recurved, hairy-scabrous, at length 
glabrescent, in the axils fasiculate; flowers near the top of 
the twigs axillary; peduncles a little shorter than the calyx, 
which is with exception of the ciliolate margin glabrous; its 
lips entire, the lower one a little longer; corolla red, three 
times longer than the calyx, somewhat hairy, its upper lip 
longest; spurs of the anthers adnate, the longer one hardly 
as long as the cell. 
In the Mallee Scrub on the Murray, on St. Vincent’s and 
Spencer’s Gulf. 
A low diffuse bush, allied to P. microphylla (All. Cunn., 
in Benth. lab. p. 454). 
45. Prostanthera eurybioides. 
Branches puberulous; leaves thick, very small, clabrous, 
linear - oblong, entire, slightly concave; the younger ones 
fasiculate, those surrounding the flowers broad ovate; flowers 
axillary, solitary, on short peduncles; the lower lip of the 
glabrous calyx nearly retuse, little exceeding the rounded 
upper lip; longer spur of the anthers surpassing the length 
of the cell. 
