PLATE DCXLI. 



PROSTANTHERA LASIANTIIOS. 



Downy-Jiowered Prostanthera. 



CLASS XIV. ORDER L 



DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds naked. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



The empalement after flowering shuts, both seg- 



CALYxpost florescentiam clausus, utroque labio 

 integenimo. Corolla monopetala, lanata,rin- 

 gens ; antheris appendiculatis -. baccae qua- 

 tuor, monospermae : foliis petiolatis: pedun- 

 cnlis lanceolatis, serratis : flloribus paniculis 

 axillarlbus termhialibusque : ramulis oppo- 

 sitis, quadrangularibus. 



Habitat in Capite Van Diemen. 



Labillardiere Nova Hollandia, vol, ii. p. 18. 

 lab. 157. 



ments entire. Blossom one-petalled, woolly, 

 gaping: chives with an appendage : berries 

 four, one-seeded : leaves with petioles : foot- 

 stalks lance-shaped, and sawed : flowers ter- 

 minate the branches in panicles from the axils^ 

 of the leaves: branches opposite, and four- 

 sided. 

 Native of Van Diemen's Land. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The empalement, seed-bud and pointal. 



2. The same as it appears after flowering. 



3. A blossom spread open, 



4. A chive magnified. 



5. The same shown from the inner side, magnified. 



This fine plant is perfectly new to the British gardens, and the only species of a genus named and figured, 

 by Labillardiere in his Nova Hollandia, or Description of New South Wales. 



It was raised from seed in the summer of 180/, in the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, 

 at Dropmore, who favoured us with specimens in full bloom, last June, 181 1, being the first time of its 

 flowering in this country. His Lordship's botanic gardener informs us that the plant is about eight feet 

 liigh, and the stem one inch and a quarter in diameter ; tliat during the first year it had the aj^peaiance 

 of being herbaceous, but afterwards became woody; its growth is very luxuriant, flowering at the ter- 

 mination of every branch, and seems as if it would thrive in any sort of earth, and was nearly if not 

 quite hardy, as the roots remained in the ground one year at Dropmore, and shot up strong again in the 

 summer. It may be increased by cuttings, and will be found not only an acquisition in point of novelty, 

 but ornamental from its numerous light graceful blossoms, which possess an agreeable fragrance. 



