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 HlBBfcRTlA GROSSULARI^EFOLIA. GOOSE- 



berry-Leaved Hibbertia. 

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POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



Generic Charafter. 



Cat. 5-phylius in frudu connivens. iV/a/a 5» decidua. Cap* 

 fuU plurimae glomeratae. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



HIBBERTIA rroJ[ulari<efolia ; caule decumbente, foffls fub- 

 orbiculatis crenato-dentatis, peduncuhs foil- 

 tariis flore longioribus. 



HIBBERTIA vroffularUfolia. Salijb* in Parad. Lond. n. 73. 

 ubiBurtoniapriusappellatafuit, poftea reim- 

 prefla pagina, ad Hibbertiam melius relata. 



HIBBERTIA crenata. Bot. Rcfof. ». 187. 



Hibbertia is a genus of plants, all natives of New-Holland 

 to which this name has been given in honour or C^orc 

 Hibbert, Efq. to whom our gardens are. indebted iortM 

 introduaion of feveral new plants, particularly from the Cape 

 of Good Hope. The fpecies firft railed here, and which was 

 the only one known for feveral years after was figuicd at 

 N0.44Q f this work, under the mifapphed name of D t- 

 "..W^h is a very large ^X^l^Zl 

 of Ceylon, Java, and fome other parts of the ^" I " d ^ ^ 

 " remarkable for the thickening of the calyx, after the fall ot 

 the flower, into a large flemy fruit 



The Hibberti* are all low ^\ S > h fJ?™vcry different, 

 the form of the flower, ^^ h . th / e J funder a new natural 

 Mr. Salisbury has arranged both genera _unu 1 USSI tU 



order, to which he has given the name of DiHeneac Jo s^ 



