XCVI. LABIATE. 
1205 
Hemigenia.] 
of the lower stamens 2-eelled, one of the cells distant and diminutive. Pollen 
dark-purple. Style glabrous, quite enclosed ; stigma extremely narrow. Nuts 
roughly reticulate, obliquely obovate, slightly compressed, about li line long, 
brown. 
Hab.: Near Mt. Playfair, Miss Ii. S. Biddulph (F. v. M.). 
20. WESTRINGIA, Sm. 
(After J. P. Westring, a physician to the King of Sweden.) 
Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla with a short tube and dilated throat ; 
the upper lip erect but flat and broadly 2-lobed, the lower spreading, 8-lobed. 
Stamens 2 (the upper ones) perfect, the anthers 1 -celled with a short slightly 
prominent connective not produced below its insertion on the filament, the 2 
lower stamens (or staminodia) sterile and short, the anthers reduced to a small 
connective with 2 linear or linear-clavate parallel branches. Style shortly bifid 
at the end. Nuts reticulate-rugose, attached to the middle or higher up. Seeds 
albuminous. — Shrubs. Leaves in whorls of three, four or rarely more, all entire, 
Flowers all axillary or rarely in leafy heads, with a pair of bracts under the 
calyx usually very small and sometimes almost obsolete. Corolla usually hairy 
inside the tube, especially at the insertion of the stamens. 
The genus is limited to Australia. With the exception of the West Australian species IF 
Cephalantha, the species are so closely allied, and run so much into each other as to render it 
exceedingly difficult to assign to them any tangible characters. The chief differences observed 
are in the number of leaves in the whorl, in the relative abundance or absence of the hoary 
tomentum, and in the length of the teeth of the calyx, none of which are quite constant in any 
one species. The corolla might perhaps in some instances supply better characters, but they 
can only be ascertained by the observation of living specimens ; the want of any concavity in the 
upper lip at once distinguishes the genus from Microcorys. — Benth. 
Flowers all in the axils of leaves not differing from the stem ones 
(distant or crowded at the ends of the branches). 
Leaves very white underneath, often not much revolute. Calyx 
teeth above half as long as the tube. 
Leaves in threes, oblong-elliptical, § to lin. long 1 . II'. grandifolia. 
Leaves in fours, oblong-lanceolate or linear, J to lin. long ... 2. II'. rosmariniformis. 
Leaves very much revolute, rigid, mostly in threes. Calyx teeth very 
short 3. W. rigidn. 
Leaves narrow-linear, slender, much revolute, mostly in threes. 
Calyx-teeth as long as the tube 4. IF. eremicola. 
Leaves not much revolute or flat, in threes, oblong-elliptical or lan- 
ceolate, under lin. long, green on both sides as well as the calyx 5. IF. glabra. 
1. W. grandifolia, (leaves large), F. v 21. Herb.; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 123. 
A tall shrub with the habit and white indumentum of W. rosmariniformis. 
Leaves in whorls of 3, oblong-elliptical, J to lin. long, the margins slightly 
revolute, green above and white underneath. Flowers all axillary. Calyx very 
white, about 4 lines long, the teeth nearly as long as the tube. Corolla 
pubescent, nearly that of W. rosmariniformis, but the lobes appear to be shorter 
and broader, and the upper lip rather shorter than the lower. 
Hab.: Glasshouse Mountains, F. v. Mueller ; and probably the same species but the specimens 
not in flower, Biroa, Leichhardt. 
2. W. rosmariniformis (Rosemary-like), Sm. Tracts, 282, t. 3; Benth. FI. 
Austr. v. 128. A robust bushy shrub of several ft., the branches underside of the 
leaves and calyxes hoary or silvery-white with densely appressed hairs. Leaves 
in whorls of 4, oblong-lanceolate lanceolate or linear, acute or obtuse, \ to lin. 
long, coriaceous, glabrous and shining an the upper side, the margins more or 
less recurved or revolute. Flowers almost sessile, all axillary, with short linear 
bracts. Calyx about 3 lines long, the teeth acute, varying from half the length to 
nearly the length of the tube. Corolla pubescent outside, not twice as long as the 
