Anisomeles.] 
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ones 2 to 4iu. long contracted into a petiole, the floral ones passing into small 
bracts, all from thick soft and densely woolly tomentose on both sides to green 
and pubescent only or almost glabrous. Flowers variously described as pink, blue or 
pale purple, in loose false-whorls generally turned to one side, the lower ones 
sometimes axillary, the upper ones forming interrupted or densely irregular 
terminal racemes or thyrsoid panicles. As the flowering advances the primary 
branches of each cyme often lenghten out to above Jin., with the flowers all erect 
on the upper side. Pedicels very short, each in the axil of a small linear bract. 
Calyx usually about 2 lines when the flower first opens, but lengthening to 3, 4 
or even 5 lines, the tube 5-angled, the teeth lanceolate or more or less subulate, 
shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube scarcely so long as the calyx and the upper 
lip still shorter ; lower lip at least twice as long as the upper. Nuts shining. 
— Benth. in D.C. Prod. xii. 455. 
Hab.: From Cape York to Moreton Bay, but not found far inland. 
Benth 1 c. says : — The very different aspects given to the specimens by the diversities in the 
indumentum must at first suggest the existence of several species, and, had we only Brown’s 
specimens, we should without hesitation have adopted the three he has proposed ; but with the 
very large number from various localities now before me, I am unable to assign any positive 
limits to any of the following : — 
1. Covered with a very dense soft white or hoary tomentum, sometimes thick and almost 
woolly, sometimes close and cottony — the typical A. salvifolia, Br. — Islands of the Gulf of 
Carpentaria, B. Brown; Kennedy District, Daintree ; Nerkool Creek, Bowman ; Kockingham 
Bay, Dallachy. 
2. More loosely tomentose, the hairs scarcely spreading, the tomentum less white, passing 
through some specimens into the next form. — Sweers Island, Henne ; and the commonest form 
throughout Queensland, not far from the coast, and in the adjoining islands, A. Cunningham, 
Fraser, M'Gillivray, Bidicill, F. v. Mueller, Henne, Dallacluj, Bowman, and many others. 
3. Greener, pubescent, or nearly glabrous, scarcely tomentose, but without spreading hairs, 
the inflorescence usually looser and the flowers smaller than in the densely tomentose form. — 
Bockiugham Bay, Dallachy-, Trinity Island, M'Gillivray. To this form I should refer A. 
moschata and A. inodora, K. Br. Prod. 503. Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 455, the former from Ileppel 
and Shoalwater Bays, leading towards the common Queensland form (n, 2), the latter from 
Prince of Wales Island, more nearly glabrous than any other, all very near to the E. Indian 
A. Heyneana, 
4. Scarcely tomentose, green, more or less hirsute with spreading hairs. — Kockingham Bay, 
Dallachy-, Gilbert River, F. v. Mueller; the latter specimens more hispid still than Dallachy ’s. 
15. *STACHVrS, Linn. 
(Flowers in a spike.) 
Calyx 5- to 10-nerved, teeth 5, subequal. Corolla with usually a ring of hairs 
within the throat, not dilated, upper lip erect, lower spreading, 3-lobed, middle 
lobe the longest. Stamens 4, ascending ; anthers connivent ; cells parallel or 
diverging, style-lobes subequal. Nuts obtuse. Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves 
crenate or serrate ; whorls axillary and in terminal spikes or racemes. 
The species are found in all temperate and some in warm climates. 
1. S. arvensis (cultivation-field plant) ; Linn. Benth in D.C. Prod. xii. 477 ; 
l'l. Austr. v. 73. European Hedge-nettle or Queensland Stagger Weed. A decum- 
bent or ascending, slender, hairy annual, from a few inches to over 1ft. high. 
Leaves ovate, petiolate. Flowers small, pale purple, in false-whorls of 2 to 6 or 
8, forming loose leafy spikes. Calyx with 5 nearly equal teeth as long as the 
tube. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx, the upper lip erect, concave and 
entire, the lower lip spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, in pairs, ascending under 
the upper lip. Anthers 2-celled. 
Hab.: A common weed of cultivation in most parts. Introduced from Europe. 
There is a pr etty general belief in Queensland that this weed is dangerous to working horses 
and bullocks t hat may browse upon it. Cattle if only browsing and let alone are said 
