360 
mm deep; petioles 11-30 mm long, 18-45% 
of lamina length. Lamina upper surface 
indumentum appressed, eglandular, 1-2 
mm long, sparse (hairs > 0.2 mm apart) or 
moderately dense (hairs 0.1-0.2 mm apart), 
sessile glands 32-96 mm 2 ; lower surface 
indumentum erect or curved, eglandular or 
appressed, eglandular 1-1.6 mm long, sparse 
(hairs > 0.2 mm apart) or moderately dense 
(hairs 0.1-0.2 mm apart) or dense (hairs < 
0.1 mm apart), sessile glands 64-128 mm 2 ; 
transition from leaves to floral bracts abrupt. 
Floral bracts elliptical or ovate, 6-27 mm 
long, 2.5-10 mm wide, not consistently 
exceeding verticils. Verticils (inflorescence 
clusters) all separated on rachis, cymes 
entirely monochasial or once dichasial at 
base then monochasial, with 4-9 flowers per 
monochasium, peduncles 0-5.5 mm long 
on lowermost cluster; bracteoles spathulate, 
2.5- 67 mm long, 0.3-0.8 mm wide. Corolla 
tube longer than calyx, or same length as 
calyx; annulus 2.5-3.2 mm from base of 
corolla, annulus hairs 0.15-0.2 mm long; 
upper lip elliptical, 4-5.1 mm long, with 
eglandular hairs on outer surface; lower 
lip purple or pink, 5.6-6.9 mm long to end 
of lateral lobes, 11-14.5 mm long overall, 
glabrous on platform. Longest stamens 
11.5- 13.5 mm long from base of corolla tube; 
filament hairs 1.1-1.5 mm long, mainly along 
middle part or mainly at distal end. Style 
11.5- 14 mm long; longer stigma lobe 0.6-0.8 
mm long, shorter stigma lobe 0.4-0.45 mm 
long. Fruiting calyces 1.7-4.4 mm apart on 
rachilla; fruiting calyx narrowly campanulate 
or cylindrical, 6.9-9 mm long, 3.2-4.3 mm 
wide at lobe apices, 2.1-2.4 times longer than 
wide, exterior surface with all hairs same 
size and type, hairs eglandular, 1.1-2.4 mm 
long, sessile glands 16-96 mm 2 ; lobes acute, 
1.8-3.1 mm long. Fruiting calyx fringe hairs 
about the same length throughout, 0.15-0.25 
mm long at apical end, 0.15-0.4 mm long at 
sinus end, sinus hairs absent, inner surface of 
tube with sparse long hairs in medial section 
or glabrous. Nutlets 2.1-2.4 mm long. Figs. 
1A, IB, 2A, 4E, 9G. 
Additional specimens examined : Australia: 
Queensland. Cook District: Isabella Falls, near 
Cooktown, May 1970, Blake 23444 (BRI, CANB, L, 
MEL, PERTH); Lockerbie, 10 miles [16 km] WSW of 
Austrobaileya 9(3): 321-381 (2015) 
Somerset, Apr 1948, Brass 18404 (BRI, CANB, L); 
Bridge Creek Holding (proposed NP), upper Bridge 
Creek catchment, NW of Cooktown, Apr 2010, 
Forster PIF36462 & Thomas (BRI); Bridge Creek 
Holding (proposed NP), S of Battle Camp road, NW 
of Cooktown, May 2010, Forster P1F36860 & Thomas 
(BRI); Cape Melville NP, Nookai Creek, May 2014, 
McDonald KRM15738 (BRI, NSW); Big Fish Camp 
waterhole. Silver Plains station, Jun 2014, McDonald 
KRM16018 (BRI, DNA, MEL). 
Distribution and habitat : Anisomeles 
languida is endemic to Queensland. It occurs 
in four disjunct areas of Cape York Peninsula, 
viz. Battle Camp road near Cooktown, Cape 
Melville, Silver Plains, and Lockerbie (Map 
2). It grows in riparian woodland, or its margin 
with Eucalyptus woodland on sandstone or 
granite hillslopes. 
Phenology : Flowers have been recorded from 
April to June; fruits in May and June. 
Notes: Anisomeles languida is distinguished 
by the prostrate habit, the presence of patent 
hispid hairs on the upper stems, the hairs 
1-2.4 mm long on leaves and calyces, the 
hairs appressed on the upper leaf surface, 
the widely spaced fruiting calyces, and the 
glabrous platform of the corolla. 
Conservation status : Least Concern. 
Etymology: From the Latin languidus, 
meaning listless or weary. This is an oblique 
reference to the prostrate habit of the plant; it 
seems too weary to battle against gravity. 
15. Anisomeles lappa A.R.Bean sp. nov. 
habitu prostrato vel procumbente, pilis 
hispidis crebris caulibus insidentibus, foliis 
basalibus paribus 4-10 loborum marginalium 
praeditis, monochasiis paucifloris et bracteis 
floralibus longitudine verticillos superantibus 
distinguitur. Typus: Australia: Queensland. 
Cook District: 1 km S of Lappa on Mt Garnet 
Road, 12 April 2005, P.I. Forster PIF30742 & 
K.R. McDonald (holo: BRI; iso: MEL, NSW). 
Anisomeles salviifolia var. tomentoso-hirsuta 
Domin, Biblioth. Bot. 89: 567 (1928). Type: 
Australia: Queensland. Cook District: Walsh 
River near Chillagoe, February 1910, K. 
Domin s.n. (holo: PR 530817). 
Prostrate or procumbent shrub, 0.15-0.5 
m high. Upper stems and rachises with 
