Dicrastyles.] 
XCV. VERBENACE/E. 
1167 
2. B. Weddii (after Jos. Wedd), Bail. Bot. Bull. x. A small erect shrub, 
clothed with a close white tomentum of branched hairs. Leaves opposite or 
scattered, linear, obtuse, about ^in. long, with closely revolute margins. 
Flowers in compact head-like cymes. Bracts about as long as the calyx, ovate. 
Calyx nearly 2 lines long, divided to near the base into lanceolate lobes, glabrous 
on the inside and nearly equal. Corolla longer than the calyx, outside covered 
by branched hairs, the tube slender in the middle, swelled around the ovary, the 
upper with 5 blunt lobes, one much longer than the rest, broad and open, woolly 
in the throat. Stamens, only 2 in all the flowers examined bearing anthers, 
the others being apparently abortive ; filaments longer than the corolla-tube, and 
hairy. Anthers large with divaricate lobes. Style with 2 long glabrous slender 
branches, entire portion with long branched hairs like the stamens. Fruit 
globose, 4-celled, with 1 seed in each cell. 
Hab.: St. George, Jos. Wedd. 
8. 3D. Boranii (after P. Doran), F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 230. Plant covered 
with a thin grey tomentum ; branches nearly terete. Leaves sessile or very 
shortly petiolate, lin. or more long, 3 to 6 lines broad, ovate or oblong-lanceolate 
margin recurved, veins reticulate. Flower-heads in panicle of few or many 
flowers. Calyx-teeth deltoid scarcely as long as the tube, white tomentose. 
Corolla glabrous outside, densely bearded at the throat. Stamens not exserted. 
Style line long tomentose at the base. Fruit globose. 
Hab.: On the Queensland border, Central Australia. C. Winnecke, (F. v. 31.) 
Var. eriantha, F.v. 31. Rep. on pi. coll, by Hr. Ch. Winnecke, in Cen. Aust. 1883. Leaves 
narrower, conspicuously tomentose. Flower clusters 2 or more superposed along the rhachis. 
Calyxes involved in a dense wool. Corolla almost bell-shaped, the tube short and turgid, 
lobes obtuse. 
4. D. Lewellini (after Dr. H. Lewellin), F. v. M. Fragm. xi. 86, and Rep. 
on Winnecke' s coll, 1883. Plant erect, grey-tomentose. Leaves crowded, broad- 
linear 4 to 8 lines long, margins revolute. Flowers in interrupted terminal 
spikes. Bracts ovate or rhomboid-lanceolate. Calyx hoary-tomentose, lobes 
acuminate scarcely 8 lines long. Corolla bluish, tube cylindric somewhat broad, 
silky hairy inside, lobes acute. • Stamens exserted, the fifth one often wanting, 
but sometimes developed and quite perfect. Ovary white-tomentose. 
Hab.: On Queensland border, Central Australia, C. Winnecke (F. v. 31.) 
3. CHLOANTHES, R. Br. 
(Flowers greenish-yellow.) 
Calyx more or less deeply divided into 5 narrow herbaceous lobes. Corolla- 
tube elongated, usually incurved and dilated upwards ; limb 2-lipped, the upper 
lip erect at the base with 2 spreading lobes, the lower lip 3-lobed, spreading. 
Stamens 4, somewhat didynamous, inserted below the middle of the tube above 
a ring of c ottony hairs, shorter than the upper lip ; anthers without any or with 
very obscure appendages. Ovary imperfectly or almost perfectly 2-celled with 2 
ovules in each cell laterally attached. Style very shortly 2 lobed. Fruit a dry 
4-celled drupe, the endocarp separating into 2 hard 2-celled nuts, leaving between 
them a central cavity reaching halfway up. Seeds solitary in each cell, ascend- 
ing, with a thin testa and copious albumen.- — Perennials undershrubs or shrubs, 
more or less cottony woolly or glandular-hirsute. Leaves opposite or in whorls 
of three, narrow, bullate-rugose and decurrent along the stem. Flowers axillary, 
solitary, shortly pedicellate, with a pair of bracteoles below the calyx, the upper 
flowers sometimes forming a leafy spike. 
The genus is limited to Australia. The transformation of the imperfectly 2-celled ovary into 
a completely 4-celled fruit in this and the following genus is affected by the growth of the 
endocarp round the seeds, filling up the cavity in the upper part, but usually leaving in the 
lower part a vacuity or so-called fifth empty cell. — Benth. 
