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NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY. 



No.18. 



By J. H. Maiden and E. Betche. 



DILLENIACEJE. 



HlBBERTIA ELATA, Il.Sp. 



Wallangarra, New South Wales, on the borders of Queensland, 

 on arid hills (E. Betche; December, 1891; Stanthorpe, Queensland, 

 on the top of a bare hill in the crevices of rocks (J. L. Boorman; 

 July, 1904). 



Frutex erectus, circiter 1 m. altus, pilis parce vestitus. Folia 

 angusto-linearia, 2-3 cm. longa, concava, conferta leniter fascicu- 

 lata. Flores terminales in brevissimis ramulis lateralibus. Sepala 

 ovata, circiter, 8 mm. longa, exteriora ciliata. Petala non vidimus. 

 Stamina 15-20, circa carpidia in circulum completum disposita 

 sine staminodiis. Carpidia 3, glabra. 



An erect, densely leaved shrub, 4 or 5 feet high, the young 

 branches scantily hairy. Leaves crowded and somewhat clustered, 

 sessile with a slightly enlarged base, and articulate shortly above 

 the base, narrow -linear, concave, 2 to 3 cm. long, hirsute with short 

 soft white hairs, or rarely nearly glabrous. Flowers solitary and 

 terminal on the branches, or apparently axillary, on account of the 

 shortness of the branches. Sepals ovate, about 8 mm. long, with 

 membranous, more or less ciliate edges, the outer ones drawn to a 

 point. Petals not seen. Stamens about 15 or rather more, all 

 round the carpels, without staminodia, though some with smaller 

 barren anthers. Carpels usually 3, glabrous. 



The species is closely allied to H. fasciculata R.Br., and may per- 

 haps be regarded by some as a tall form of that species, but the 

 aspect of it is very different. It differs from it by the large size, the 



