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ciliate. Petals obovate, li in. loiii?, nnrrowed at the base. Slamens vcrv 



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^numerous, the iuncr ones, long and recuiTcd, the others shorter, and the 

 outermost sometimes small and barren; Gynoscium of 5 to 8 glabrous car^^els, 

 tapering into long recurved styles. Ovules 6 to 8 in each carpel. 



Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks, A, Ouiinmgliam ,■ Cape York, M' Gillivray , 



2. HIBBERTIA, Andr. 



■ (Hemistemnia, Plcurandra, «?iJ HibLertia, DC; Ochrolasia, Turcz,; 



. . . 1:1 einistephus, Bnunmond) 



Sepals 5, spreading, sometimes sliortly united at the base. Petals 5. 

 Stamens indefmite, rarely fewer than 12, and then usually all on one side of 

 the cai-pels, either all perfect or some of them reduced to staminodia, all free 

 or the filaments shortly and irregularly united at the base ; anthers erect, ob- 

 loiig, or rarely ovate or orbicular, opening in longitudinal slits. Carpels 

 usually 2 to 5, rarely solitary or more than 5, free or shortly cohering on 

 their inner edge, with 2 to 6 or rarely only 1 or more than 6 ovules in each. 

 Styles filiform, diverging, terminal or almost dorsal. Fruit-carpels usually 

 dehiscent at the top. ■ Seeds reniform or nearly globular, with an entire or 

 divided arillus.— Shrubs or vmdershrnbs, 'usually much branched and low, 



■ocumbent 

 6 feet high. Leavp- 



all 



^vith a midrib prominent underneath, the lateral veins reticulate and rarely 

 prominent. Flowers yellow or white, solltaiy and terminal, or (owing to the 

 shortness or abortion of the flowering shoot) apparently axillary sessile in a 

 tuft of floral leaves or pedunculate. 



. ^^sidcs (lie Australian species, there ore onlv two known, both from Madagascar, heloug- 

 ^^f^ *^^ section Ilemlstemma, hut with opposite leaves. The species of the first three 

 ot the following sections are usually distributed into two separate genera, Ilemistemma and 

 ^fenrandra, the nemipleura7tdi^as being referred sometimes to the one, sometimes to the 

 otner; but their characters appear to be much less important and less conformable to habit 

 tban was originally supposed, and I have followed Mueller in uuitiug tliem with Hib- 

 ^<?^/^« as sections only. 



Sect. I. Hemistemma.— P^//^t^/ stamens and stnmhwdia all on one side of ilie 

 rue l!^^ ^^^^^^odia outside. Peduncles wostl>/ 2- or more-Jloiccred, except jn 11. ver- 

 osa. All tropical species except //, verrucosa. 



T ^^ oblong or lanceolate, flat or the mardns slightly recurved, 

 leaves obtuse. 



I^eaves with recurved marrrins, uarrbw-cd into a petiole, nisty- 



brown underneath. Sepals obtuse ^' ^ Sanhiu 



J^eaves flat, closely sessile with a rounded base, white uuder- 

 neath. Sepals acute 2. H. Broicnei. 



t^aves acute or niucronate, white uuderneath. ^ „ • » . 



Spikes terminal, several-flo.vcred 3. ^. dealbata. 



j^ leduucles lateral, 2- or 3-, rarely 1-flowercd ^, H, candicans, 



es uarrow-oblong or linear, the margins revolute. 

 t-ares oblong. linear, thick, about \ in. long. 



•^ves and calyx glabrous or scabrous with stlfF stellate hairs. 



Peduncles 1 -flowered \ \ , . . '. '- \ '.. '. • • 8, H. verrucosa, 



■Leavea tomentose uuderneath. Sepals densely and softly vi!- «.,..- ,- 



_ >0U8, Peduncles mostly 2- or S-flowered 7. J?. ledifoUa. 





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