Mentha.] 
XCYI. LABIATE. 
1193 
2^ lines long, the teeth lanceolate or lanceolate-subulate, scarcely villous 
inside. Corolla fully five lines long, the tube rather longer than the calyx, the 
upper lobe deeply notched or shortly bifid. Stamens and style much longer 
than the corolla. 
Hab.: On the Maranoa, Mitchell. 
The specimens are but few, and may hereafter prove to be exceptional, but the flowers are 
much larger than those of any Mentha known to me, and the foliage is nearer that of M. 
laxitlora than of M. australis. — Benth. 
2. 1VE. australis (Australian), B. Br. Brotl. 505 ; Bentli , FI. Austr. v. 83. 
Stems erect or ascending, branched, 1 to 2 or more feet high, usually scabrous 
on the angles. Leaves lanceolate or rarely ovate-lanceolate, quite entire or 
here and there sparingly toothed, contracted into a short petiole or almost sessile, 
glabrous or hoary-pubescent, especially underneath, often above lin. long. 
Flowers in axillary false-whorls, usually numerous, on very short pedicels or quite 
sessile. Calyx narrow, hoary-pubescent or villous, 2 to nearly 3 lines long, the 
teeth subulate or narrow-lanceolate, very acute, slightly villous inside. Corolla- 
tube not exceeding the calyx, the lobes shorter than the tube, the upper one more 
or less deeply 2-lobed, the whole corolla under 4 lines long. — Benth. in D.C. 
Prod. xii. 174 ; Hook, f. FI. Tasm. i. 281 ; Micromeria australis, Benth. Lab. 
Gen. et Sp. 380. 
Hab.: In the interior, Mitchell ; Darling Downs to the Georgina. 
Tbe difference observed in the upper lobe of ihe corolla of this and the allied species, deeply 
lobed, notched only, or entire, require further observation to ascertain whether they are really 
of specific constancy. — Benth. 
3. ]YZ. satureioides (Satureia-like), II. Br. Prod. 505. ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 
84. A small much branched erect or diffuse perennial under 1 ft. and often only 
a few inches high, glabrous or minutely lioary-pubescent. Leaves petiolate or 
sometimes almost sessile, usually oblong or oblong-lanceolate, but varying from 
ovate to almost linear, obtuse, entire, underpin, long when broad, sometimes nearly 
lin. when narrow. Flowers usually G or fewer, rarely rather more, in axillary 
false-whorls. Pedicels shorter than the calyx and often very short. Calyx 14 to 
nearly 2 lines long, the teeth shortly lanceolate or triangular, always densely 
villous inside with white hairs, readily distinguishing this species from all others. 
Corolla small, the upper lobe usually shortly bifid. — Benth. in D.C. Prod. xii. 147 ; 
Micromeria satureioides, Benth., Lab. Gen. et. Sp. 3ti0 ; Bartl.in PI. Preiss. i. 354. 
Ilab.: Burnett Paver and Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller; Rockhampton, Tliozet ; Darling 
Downs, Lnu. A ver'y common species. 
Yield of oil from 1 cwt. of nearly fresh plants 14 ozs., -J. F. Bailey. 
8. LYCOPUS, Linn. 
(From lukos, a wolf, and pous, a foot ; leaves of some species resemble foot of 
a wolf.) 
Calyx equally 4- or 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short, limb nearly equally 4- 
lobed. Two upper stamens reduced to small filiform staminodia sometimes 
capitellate at the top ; the two lower ones perfect, distant, with 2-celled anthers. 
Style shortly bifid. Nuts smooth, with three callous angles and truncate at the 
top. — Perennial herbs, usually emitting stolones. Flowers small, usually 
numerous, in dense axillary false-whorls. Bracts within the false-whorls minute, 
or the outer ones as long as the calyx. 
The genus consists of very few species, or varieties, dispersed over the temperate regions of 
the northern hemisphere, the only Australian species scarcely differing from some of the 
northern forms. — Benth. 
1. L, australis (Australian), II. Br. Prod. 500; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 85. 
An erect herb, attaining sometimes 2 or 3ft., glabrous or sprinkled with a few 
minute hairs. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, bordered by a few rather coarse acute 
