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Australian Plants. 



A shrub with iutrlcate 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 ; twJgs short, spines- 

 cent, foliate at the base; leaves lanceolate or roundish-ovate, 

 acute, entire or repaud, 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 

 lilac-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 Grrampians. 



This species is remarkable for its prickly branchlets. 



44. 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 Avith 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 Hp 

 longest; spurs of the anthers adnate, the longer one hardly 

 as long as the cell- 

 In the Malice 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,'' glabrous, 

 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. 



