Pityrodia .] 
XCV. VERBENACE.E. 
1169 
more or less clothed with cottony wool. Leaves scattered or irregularly opposite, 
not decurrent. Flowers solitary, or in cymes or clusters, axillary or collected in 
terminal cymes or leafy spikes. 
The genus is limited to Australia. 
1. P. salvifolia (Salvia-leaved), R. Br. Prod. 513; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 48. 
A shrub of spreading growth, attaining 6 to 8ft., with a strong sage-like scent, 
the branches densely clothed with a woolly tomentum usually rust-coloured, but 
sometimes whitish. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, lanceolate or almost 
linear, obtuse or rather acute, 2 or 3 or even 4 in. long, very rugose, pubescent 
above, cottony and rusty or whitish underneath. Flowers nearly sessile, in 
axillary clusters of 2, 3, or rarely more. Bracts very narrow, the outer ones 
shorter than the calyx, the inner ones much smaller. Calyx turbinate-campanu- 
late, nearly 3 lines long, prominently ribbed, tomentose, divided to rather below 
the middle into lanceolate acuminate lobes. Corolla white, scarcely exceeding 
the calyx, the tube broadly campanulate, with a dense ring of hairs inside below 
the stamens ; lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones rather more united, 
the middle lower one rather broader than the others. Filaments very short ; 
anthers almost exserted, the two lower ones with prominent appendages, the two 
upper ones xvith shorter ones, and sometimes with a fifth rudimentary stamen. 
Ovary glabrous ; ovules attached close to the top with a short funicle. Fruit 
almost completely 4-celled. — Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. 628 ; Premna salcifolia, 
Spreng. Syst. ii. 755. 
Hab.: Northumberland islands, R. Brown; barren rocky hills, Cleveland Bay, A. Cunning- 
ham; near Rockhampton, O’Shanesy; near Mount Hedlow, Dallachy ; Mount Perry, Jas.Keys. 
5. SPARTOTHAMNUS, A. Cunn. 
(From the branches being used for cordage). 
Calyx very open, 5-lobed. Corolla-tube short and broad ; limb spreading, 
5-lobed, the middle lower lobe rather larger than the others. Stamens 4, exserted ; 
anther-cells with minute tips at the lower end. Style filiform, with 2 rather long 
branches. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell laterally attached 
at or above the middle. Fruit a small globular succulent drupe, the endocarp 
separating into 4 1-seeded pyrenes, usually separated at the base by a central 
cavity. Seeds albuminous. — Shrub or undershrub, with few small distant leaves, 
all opporite and not decurrent. Flowers very small, solitary in the axils, with 
small bracteoles. 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia, very nearly allied to Pityrodia, 
but with a different habit. 
1. S. junceus (Rush-like), A. Cunn. in Loud, llort. Brit. 600, and in Walp., 
Rep. vi. 694; Bcntli. FI. Austr. v. 55. An undershrub or shrub of several ft., 
glabrous or pubescent with branching hairs, the branches divaricate, rigid, 
acutely 4-angled, broomlike and appearing almost leafless, the smaller branchlets 
often 2 or 3 together at the nodes. Leaves small and distant, often reduced to 
small scales, all opposite, when more developed especially on young shoots J to ^ 
in. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire or with a few coarse teeth, the 
margins recurved. Flowers very small, on short pedicels with 2 small bracteoles 
about the middle. Calyx about 1 line long. Corolla shortly exceeding the calyx, 
the tube board, with a ring of short hairs inside near the top, the lobes rather 
longer than the tube. Ovary glabrous. Fruit quite smooth, orange-red. 1 to 2 
lines diameter. — A. DC. Prod. xi. 705. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham ; Sutfcor Range and Burnet River, F. v. 
Mueller; Wide Bay, Leichhardt ; Cape and Isaacs Rivers, Bowman; sandstone ridges of the 
interior, Mitchell; Armadilla, W. Barton. 
