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HIBBERTIA pedunculata. 
Long-stalked Hibbertia. 
POLYANDRIA Dl-PENTAG YNIA. 
Nat. ord. Billeniaceje. 
HIBBER TIA . Suprd, vol. 4. fol. 282. 
HI. Ovariis 2-4 pube brevi velutinis squamulisve lepidotis. Dec. 
syst. 1. 430. # . 
H. pedunculata; foliis linearibus obtusiusculis margine subrevolutis, floribus 
pedicellatis digynis (tri-pentagynis), ovariis subincanis. Dec. 1. c. prodr. 
1. 74. 
H. corifolia. Bot. mag. 2672. 
Suffrutex pedalis, in spontaneis suberectus, in cultis decumbens. Rami 
Jiliformes, teretes, pilosi. Folia linearia, sessilia, obtusa,margine subdenti- 
culata,parce pilosa, adultis rejlexis. Flores solitarii, terminates, pedunculati, 
pedunculo Jiliformi, piloso, colorato. Calyx inferus, unibracteolatus, penta- 
phyllus , sepalis concavis, pilosis, imbricatis, subinmqualibus, nunc margine 
nunc dorso coloratis. Petala lutea, sessilia, oblonga, emarginata. Stamina 
lutea, simplici serie hypogyna; filamenta subulata; antherse continue 
(innatce), obtusce, introrsce, lateraliter dehiscentes. Ovana 3-5, subrotunda, 
sericea; ovulis cuique ovario sex, horizontalibus, lateri interion ovarii 
adhcerentibus, exarillatis: foramine obscuro hilo proximo. Styli subulati, 
patentes. Stigma simplicissimum. Carpella membrnnacea, t -sperma. 
Semina immatura arillo lacero diaphano involuta, testd pallida, jragili. 
This plate was in the hands of the colourei when the 
last number of the Botanical Magazine reached us, in 
which we find the same plant figured under the name 
of H. corifolia . We are, however, enabled, from an examina¬ 
tion of authentic specimens in the Banksian Herbarium, 
to determine that the species is the H. pedunculata ot 
Mr. Brown, and, consequently, that it is a native ot roi t 
Jackson, and not of Nepal, as is conjectured y our 
contemporary. 
This plant offers a beautiful proof of the truth of an 
observation first made, we believe, by Mr. Brown, that in 
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