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XCV. VERBENACEjE. 
[ CMoanthes . 
Flowers mostly axillary and distant. 
Leaves narrow with very recurved margins, white underneath. 
Corolla tube narrow (variable in size), glabrous inside except the ring of 
hairs near the base 1. G. stcechadis. 
Corolla-tube short and broad, hairy inside under the upper lip .... 2. C. parviflora. 
1. C. Stcechadis (Stoechas-like) R. Br. Prod. 514; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 45. 
A perennial or undershrub, with erect simple or branched stems of 1 to 2ft. 
Leaves opposite, linear or linear-lanceolate, but often almost terete owing to the 
revolute margins, obtuse, rarely above lin. long, exceedingly bullate-rugose and 
scabrous-muricate on the upper or outer surface, which is decurrent along the 
stem to the next pair of leaves, the under-surface woolly-white but often quite 
concealed by the revolute margins. Flowers yellowish, on very short axillary 
pedicels, with a pair of linear-bracteoles rugose like the leaves but shorter than 
the calyx, inserted about the middle of the pedicel. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long, 
more or less clothed with woolly hairs inside and out, divided to the middle or 
lower down into 5 lanceolate or linear herbaceous lobes, bullate like the leaves. 
Corolla in the typical form above lin. long, pubescent outside, the tube gradually 
dilated upwards and slightly curved, glabrous inside except a ring of woolly hairs 
above the ovary, the upper lip erect, somewhat concave, with two short spreading 
lobes, the lower lip divided into 3 acute very spreading lobes, the middle one 
rather longer and more reflexed than the others. Ovary densely villous. Fruit 
separating into 2 hemispherical, reticulate hairy cocci, the exocarp membranous, 
the endocarp and the placenta forming in each a bony 2-celled nut with 1 seed in 
each nut. — Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. 532 ; C. lav anduli folia, Seib. in Spreng. 
Syst. ii. 756. 
Hab.: Among the Cooper's Plains specimens of C. parvitlora were some which probably 
belonged to this species. 
Var. parviflora. Flowers smaller, but shaped like those of C. stcechadis, the corolla about 
jin. long. 
2. C. parviflora (flowers small), Walp. Rep. iv. 58; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 
46. An erect perennial or undershrub, with the habit and foliage of C. stcechadis, 
but the calyx is more deeply divided, and the corolla not above iin. long, has the 
throat or upper portion of the tube broader and very hairy inside below the upper 
lip with long whitish hairs, the lobes are also much shorter and all obtuse. 
Stamens usually shorter than in C. stcechadis, but variable. Fruit as in C. 
stcechadis. The colour of the flower is uncertain, being variously described as 
purple, light blue, yellow, or yellowish. — Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. 532. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallacluj ; Sandy Cape, The Hon. Miss Lovell, also at Helidon and 
Cooper’s Plains. 
4. PITYRODIA. R. Br. 
(Alluding to the scurfy surface of the plants.) 
(Quoya, Gaudich, Dasymalla, Endl.) 
Calyx more or less deeply five-lobed. Corolla-tube broad, usually short, more 
rarely elongated ; limb of 5 spreading lobes more or less distinctly 2-lipped, or 
oblique with the lowest lobe much larger than the others. Stamens 4, usually 
didynamous ; included or shortly exserted ; anther-cells all, or one of each anther, 
or those of one pair of anthers, tipped at the lower end by a small or very 
prominent appendage rarely entirely deficient. Ovary imperfectly or almost 
perfectly 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell laterally attached to a short or very 
long funicle. Style very shortly 2-lobed, and often dilated at the base of the 
lobes. Fruit a dry drupe, the endocarp separating into two 2-celled nuts with 
one seed in each cell, or reduced by abortion to one or two single-seeded nuts. 
Seeds ascending, with a thin testa and copious albumen. — Shrubs or undershrubs, 
