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with the generic name of Ercniodendron, established entirely on Mr. Cnnninghani's sj)eciincns. A fourth species has lately been described by Mr. Benthani in Sir Thos. Mitcliell's narrative of his Journey into Tropical Australia ; and [85 some account of a fifth is o-iven in the ibllowinix article.

These five species may be arranged in four sections, dis- tinguished by the following characters :

a. Folia opposita ; sepala unguiculata.

Ercmophila oppositifoha. Br. lorodr. \,p. 518.

/3. Folia alterna; sepala unguiculata, cglandulosa ; an- therae exsertoc.

E. CunniuGrhamii.

y. Folia alterna ; sepala breve unguiculata, eglandulosa ; stamina inclusa.

Ercmophila Mitchelli. Benth. in Mitch, trojj. Austr. p. 31.

Ercmophila Sturtii.

^. Folia alterna glanduloso-tuberculata, sepala cuneato- obovata, scssilia, glandulosa.

E. alternifolia. Br.jn'odr. I, p. 518.

This last species might be separated from Ercmophila ; it is not, however, referable to Stenochilus, with some of whose species it nearly agrees in corolla, but from all of which it differs in its glandular scariose calyx.

20. Eremophila {Sturtii), pubescens, foliis anguste linearibus apiculo recurvo, corollis extus pubcscentibus limbo intus barbato, staminibus inclusis.

Loc. " On the Darling ; flowers purplish, sweet-scented." D. Sturt.

Desc. Frutex orgyalis (D. Sturt.). Calyx 5-partitus, scqualis; sepalis obovato-oblongis, basi angustioribus sed in unguem vix attenuatis, niembranaceis, uninerviis, venosis. Corolla bilabiata, tubo amplo recto, labiis obtusis, extus pubescens, intus hinc (inferius) barbata. Labium su- perius tripartitum ; lobo medio bifido (e duobus conflato) ; laciniis onmibus obtusis ; inferius obcordatum bilobum lobis rotundatis, densius barbatum. Stamina quatuor didynama, omnino inclusa. Filamenta glabra. Anthcra) reniformes.

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