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32 II. DiLLENlACE.f;, [^HibbeHia. 



* Carpels 3, villous, 6-ovulate. The general aspect is sometimes that of //. 

 scrpylUfoUa^ but it is readily known by the stamens. 



Queensland. Open forest-land near Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham ; Stradbrooke 

 Island, Fraser ; Glasshouse mountains, F. Mueller ; swamps towards Durval, Leichhardt, 

 N. S. ^Vales. Clarence river, Beckler, 

 Var. thijmifolia. Leaves shorter, oftea recurved at the end. — Near Moreton Bay, A. * 



Cunningham, 



• 38. H. serpyllifolia, R. Br. in BQ. Sf/st Veg. i. 430. Decumbent 

 or prostrate, much branched, and either glabrous or the branches and young 

 parts clothed with short spreading hairs. Leaves (like those of IL vestita) 

 narrow-linear, obtuse, 3 to 4 lines long, rigid with recurved margins. Pe- ^ 

 duncles very short, rarely attaining 2 or 3 lines, with 2 or 3 small bracts at \ 

 their base. Sepals about 2 lines long, acute or the inner ones obtuse, gla- |^ 

 brous or hairv. Stamens about 12, without staminodia. Carpels 3, villous, 

 4.ovulate.— I/', ericifolia, Hook. f. PL Tasm. i. 14. t. 3 ; P. Muell. PL Yict. 

 i.l7, 



. N. S. "^Vales. Port Dalrymplc, Caley ; Shoalwater Bay and Passage, R. Brown, 

 Victoria. Stony mountains, particularly in the highlands; also on subalpine meadows, 



F. Mueller, 



Tasmania. Common on the serpentine formation. Asbestos hills ; also Launceston 



and George Town Gunn. 



Var.? minutlfoha. Leaves 1 to 2 lines long. Mount Aberdeen, jP. J/«^/^^r. These 

 specimens may possibly belong to the small-leaved variety of H. pechtnculata, but the 

 shortness of the peduncle and general aspect bring them nearer to II. serpjlUfolia. 



39. H. pedunculata, R. Br, in DC. Syst, T^?*/. i. 430. Stems diffuse, 



prostrate, or rarely erect, much branched, glabrous or clotlicd as well as the 

 leaves with a few very short spreading hairs. Leaves iiaiTow-linear, rigid, 

 obtuse, usually 2 to 3 lines long, the margins revolute, numerous but not 

 clustered. Peduncles \ io \ in, long or sometimes more, the bracts at the 

 base inconspicuous or wanting. Sepals 2 to nearly 3 lines long, ovate, very 

 obtuse, usually minutely pubescent outside. Petals obovate, slightly emar- 

 ginate. Stamens 15 to 25, accompanied usually by one or two small stami- 

 nodia outside. Cai-pels 3, villous (or rarely glabrous ?), with 4 or 6 o^niles in 

 each. — Pleurandra i/itermedia, DC. Syst. Veg. i. 420 (according to an un- 

 named specimen of Caley's, in Herb- E. Br.). 



N. S, Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; to the Blue Mouutains, J. Cnnningharn. 



In the mountains and Paramatta, Caleg ; and southward to the lower part of the Austrahau 



Alps, F. Mueller. These specimens, with elongated, divaricate branches, about 15 stameas 



.and 4 ovules, occur in some herbaria under the name of J7. minuiifoUa, F. Muell., as weU 



as those of a var. of //. serpgllifolla, 



Var. corifolla. Stems short, difTusc or prostrate. Stamens about 20. Ovules usually o. 

 — //. corifolla, Bot. Mag. t. 2672 ; II. pednncnlata, Bot. Reg. t. 1001. The carpels are j 

 described in the Botanical JTagazinc as glabrous, but in the Kegister, where the same 

 garden-plant is represented, they are said to be silky, as I have always found them. 



§ 3. Ochrolau<t. — Carpels glabrous, with G to 8 ovules. No staminocha. 

 Leaves narrow, with rcvolute margins, as in the VesUta. Flowers sessile, \ 

 without the broad brown bracts of the Bradeafcc, ■ 



. ^ 40. H. ocTirolasia, B^w^J. Branches rigid, divaricate, glabrous. Leaves 

 .linear, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long, the margins much revolute, rather thick an 



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