Cunninghami, De Cand. prodr. xi. p. 713.

Delessert ic. select. vol. v. p. 43. tab. 100. (ubi error in num.
ovulorum.)

LOC. "In the sandy brushes of the low western interior, not beyond lat.
29 degrees S." D. Sturt.

OBS. The genus Eremophila was founded on very unsatisfactory materials,
namely, on two species, E. oppositifolia and alternifolia, which I found
growing in the same sandy desert at the head of Spencer's Gulf in 1802,
the only combining character being the scariose calyx, which I inferred
must have been enlarged after flowering. This, however, proves not to be
the case in E. alternifolia, which Mrs. Grey has found in flower towards
the head of St. Vincent's Gulf: and from analogy with other species since
discovered, it probably takes place only in a slight degree in E.
oppositifolia, whose expanded flowers have not yet been seen.

In 1817, Mr. Cunningham, in Oxley's first expedition, discovered a third
and very remarkable species in flower and unripe fruit, which he
referred, with a doubt, to Eremophila, and which M. Alphonse De Candolle
has recently separated, but as it seems to me on very insufficient
grounds, with the generic name of Eremodendron, established entirely on
Mr. Cunningham's specimens. A fourth species has lately been described by
Mr. Bentham, in Sir Thos. Mitchell's narrative of his Journey into
Tropical Australia; and some account of a fifth is given in the following
article.

These five species may be arranged in four sections, distinguished by the
following characters:

a. Folia opposita; sepala unguiculata. Eremophila oppositifolia. Br.
prodr. 1. p. 518.

b. Folia alterna; sepala unguiculata, eglandulosa; antherae exsertae.

E. Cunninghamii.

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

Eremophila Mitchelli. Benth. in Mitch. trop. Austr. p. 31. Eremophila
Sturtii.

d. Folia alterna glanduloso-tuberculata, sepala cuneato-obovata,
sessilia, glandulosa.

E. alternifolia. Br. prodr. i. p. 518.

This last species might be separated from Eremophila; 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 pubescentibus limbo intus barbato, staminibus
inclusis.

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

DESC. Frutex