NATIVE FLOWEKS OF VICTORIA. 99 
CHAPTER XIV. 
A Number of Desirable Plants. 
I N a country like this, where Nature is so prodigal 
of her gifts, it could hardly he expected, in the 
limits of a popular work, that the whole of our 
native plants could be described. The difficulty has not 
so much been to select suitable plants for description, 
but to choose the most suitable. Even so, I am aware 
that many have been left out, many that perhaps 
should have been noticed. A few more desirable 
ones will be mentioned here, without giving any 
botanical sequence or relationship. 
In the Labiateae or “ lip ” family, Prostanthera 
Sieberi and P. rotundifolia, with fine heliotrope- 
coloured flowers, which almost veil the shrub; our 
“ Christmas bush,” Prostanthera lasiantha, with its 
large delicate white flowers and mottled throat ; 
Prostanthera nivea, the pure white species; and 
Prostanthera eoecinea, a scarlet form from the MaUee, 
are all notable and desirable shrubs, which own the 
common name of ” mint ” bushes. If only someone 
would bring down from Kosciusko, from the Buffalo, 
or from Mount EUery, that uncommon shrub, Pro- 
stanthera Walter! — named after Charles Walter, a 
much revered and lovable old Melbourne botanist, and 
a collector for many years for Baron von ^lueller — 
and bring it into cultivation, we should have a unique 
garden plant. With large green flowers, blotched 
