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VERBENACE^E. 



Spartothamnus teuceiiflorus, /'. ?■. M. S.A., Arkaringa 

 Valley; W.A., Skirmish Hill, near Mount Squires, Victoria 

 Desert (C. 40) : Ernest Giles Range (D. Gumming). 



Lachnostachys Cliftoni, F. v. M., a var. with closer \estiture 

 and smaller leaves. W.A., 20 miles N.W. from Lake Lefroy. 



Lachnostachys veebascifolia, F. v. M., a var. with thinner 

 tomentum and more compound inflorescence. W.A., near Espor- 

 ance Bay (Gwynne). 



Newcastlia beacteosa, /■'. r. M. S.A., 70 miles S.W. from 

 Mount Watson ; W. A., Victoria Desert (C. 53, 54). 



Newcastlia cheysoteicha, F. v. M. S.A., 70 miles S.W. 

 from Mount Watson, Birksgate Range ; W.A., Victoria Desert 

 (G 54). 



Newcastlia spodiotetcha, /'. r. 31. S.A., Pernamo Hill 

 (G 22). 



Newcastlia cepiialantha, F. v. M. S.A. Upper Arkaringa 

 Valley and to towards Everard Range ; in these specimens the 

 corolla is larger and somewhat exceeded by the stamens ; the 

 upper part of the corolla-lobes, as well as the tilaments and style, 

 are blue. W.A., near Mount Squires, near Barrow Range, Vic- 

 toria Desert (C. 53) ; also now known from tlie Georgina River 

 (Alfr. Henry) and the Alfred and Mai'ie Range (E. Giles). 



Dicrastylis ocheotricha, F. r. M. S.A., Mount Watson and 

 70 miles S.W. ; W.A., Barrow Range (two to three and a half 

 feet), Victoria Desert (C. 53). 



Dicrastylis Niciiolasii, /'. r. M. W.A., Victoria Desert 

 (C. 57). 



Dicrastylis parvifolia, F. v. M. W.A., near Gnarlbine, 20 

 miles N.W. from Lake Lefroy. 



Chloantiies stacityodes, F. v. M. W.A., near Warangeriug. 



Chloastiies loeicata, /''. r. M. W.A., S''ictoria Desert (C. 

 41), near Gnarlbine. 



Chloantiies Teckiana, F. v. M. W.A., Knutsford. 



Chloanthes ctFRULEA, 11. i<p. W.A., near Gnarlbine (Helms), 

 also near Parker's Range (Edwin Merrall). 



Leaves much crowded and often ternately or quarternately 

 verticillate, sessile, broad-linear, revolute at the margin, above 

 scantily lanuginous and somewhat rugulose, beneath as well as 

 the branches white-tomentose ; flowers blue in a contracted leafy 

 panicle ; lower bracts foliaceous ; calyx small, deeply cleft into 

 narrow semi-lanceolate lobes, stellately-tomentellous outside ; 

 porolla wider than long, deeply-lobed, its tube broad, outside 

 intricately pubescent, inside glabrous, the lowest lobe the largest ; 

 stamens considerably shorter than the corolla, their filaments 

 lather thick, glabrous to the base; anthers unprovided with 



