quainted with t*^, Willdenow has recorded 21 , and 96 have 

 been now discovered. Of these, 51 belong to Australasia, 

 21 to the East Indies and neighbouring regions, 3 to the 

 equatorial parts of Africa, 21 to the equatorial parts of 

 America, but none are indigenous within the temperate 

 latitudes of the northern hemisphere. 



The complement of Hibbertia consistg at present of 19 

 species, all natives of New Holland. The one before us has 

 been introduced subsequently to the appearance of the last 

 edition of the Hortus Kewensis ; and has not been till now 

 represented by any published figure. The drawing was 

 made at the nursery of Messre. Whitley and Co. at Fulham, 

 where it is cultivated in the greenhouse, and flowers usually 

 about March. 



A su ff rutescent plant, with a round sarmentose stem. 

 Leaves petioled, subovately or elongatedly oblong, 2-3 

 inches in length, acuminate, mucronate, roughly cili- 

 ated, remotely indented, some of the teeth having an 

 elongated mucroniform termination, shortly but roughly 

 furred on the under side, the villi of the nap being crooked 

 and set all one way, occasioning a burry feel when the hand 

 is drawn a^inst the grain. Peduncle at first terminal, 

 axillary from the growth of the branch, one-flowered, soli- 

 tary, hispid, shorter than the leaf; hractes small, ciliated, 

 Knearly subulate, membranous. Calyx rotately expanded, 

 as short again as the coroDa, persistent, leaflets cordately 

 elliptical, mucronate, slightly unequal, fiirred on the out- 

 side, ciliate, as well as the peduncle and bractes of a red- 

 dish green. Corolla reminding us of that of a single- 

 flowered yellow Rose, about two inches in diameter, petals 

 oblongly obcordate. Stamens twice shorter than the calyx, 

 yellow, numerous, slightly connected at the base: anthers 

 continuously terminal, compressedly oval, recurved, dis- 

 charging the pollen by a marginal fissure. Germens 3, white, 

 smooth, ovate, surmounted by a caudately continuous 

 style equalling the stamens, and terminated by a simple 

 stigmatose point . We have seen no • specimen much above 

 a foot high, nor with more than one flower on a stem. 



» Calyx and itamens. i The three pistils. 



