On the Genus Eremophila

A traveller in the extensive desert-tracts of Australia is often well rewarded for his toils and privations by the enjoyment which the sight of the varied works of the Creator must ever cause to contemplative minds ; more especially when it is observed that, with the increase of the country's barrenness, variety and beauty in the vegetation increase in proportion.
Prominent amongst the attractive plants to be met with in the solitudes of the interior are those of the Myoporinous order, and amongst these again are the genera Stenochilus, Eremophila and Pholidia, comprising forms exquisitely ornamental.
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller (30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed Government Botanist for the colony of Victoria in 1853, and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. He also founded the National Herbarium of Victoria. He discovered and named many Australian plants.