TAB. 6531 ; 
WORMIA BureipgeEt. 
Native of Borneo. 
Nat. Ord. Dintentacem.—Tribe DILLENIER. 
Genus Wormia, Rotth.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 13.) 
Wormia Burbidgei ; frutex, foliis late ellipticis in petiolum compresso-alatum 
amplexicaulem decurrentibus oblongis obtusis integerrimis v. subsinuatis 
crasse coriaceis nervosis, costa nervisque utrinque 18-20 patentibus subtus 
crassis, pedunculis axillaribus et terminalibus cymoso-paucifloris floribus 
breviter pedicellatis amplis aureis 3-poll. diam., sepalis orbiculatis concavis 
inequalibus, petalis obovato-oblongis disco concavis marginibus late sub- 
crispato-undulatis, staminibus albidis interioribus longioribus extimis brevibus 
setifurmibus imperfectis, carpellis ad 7 stylis filiformibus. 
The genus Worméa, a near ally of the familiar Hibbertias 
of our greenhouses, consists of about ten species of shrubs 
or trees with usually very handsome flowers and foliage, 
which extend from tropical Australia through the Malay 
Islands and Southern India to the Seychelles. Though 
known in Indian Botanic Gardens, the present is the only 
one that to our knowledge has ever flowered in Europe. It 
is closely allied to W. subsessilis of Miquel, figured in the 
Annals of the Leyden Botanical Museum (vol. i. p. 315, 
Tab. IX.), but that has larger toothed leaves, flowers five 
inches in diameter, and very broadly obovate petals without 
the hollow disk and broad crenate margins of this. Coming 
from the same country, I was at first disposed to regard 
these species as identical, but as the dried specimens from 
Banka, sent from the Leyden Museum to Kew Herbarium, 
and others gathered in Borneo confirm the accuracy of 
Miquel’s plate, which is, moreover, copied from a drawing 
taken from life, I am compelled to keep them distinct. 
W. Burbidgei is a native of Northern Borneo, where it 
was discovered by the intelligent and successful collector 
whose name it bears when exploring the Bornean forests 
DECEMBER Ist, 1880. 
