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36 II. DiLLENiACEiE. \_Hibbertia, 



them as a distinct species ; but tliey pass into the smaller forms tliroiigh so many inter- 

 mediates, that I have been quite unable to draw any definite limits between them. 



§ 6. Subsessiles. — Carpels glabrous^ usually 3, with 1 or 2 ovules in eech, 

 but in one species 5 or more, with 6 or more ovules in each. Stamens usually 

 numerous, without staminodia. Leaves flat or the margins slightly recurved. 

 Bracts small or passing into the sepals. Flowers sessile or nearly so. 



50. H. linearis, R. Br. in BG, Syd. Veg. i. 438, Much branched, 

 erect or divaricate, or rarely decumbent, glabrous in all its parts, or with a 

 very minute pubescence on the young slioots. Leaves in the normal forms 

 linear, rather acute or obtuse, with a short recurved point, 4 to 8 lines long, 

 or nearly 1 in. when luxuriant, the margins flat or slightly recurved, and not 

 convex underneath. Plowers on very short peduncles, and usually sun'ounded 

 by rather longer floral leaves, with small acuminate brown bracts at the ba 

 of the peduncle, and one or two at the summit passing into the sepals. Se- 

 pals all or the inner ones only obtuse, glabrous with thin margins, 2^ to 3 

 lines long. Petals obovate, scarcely notched. Stamens 15 to 20, without \ 

 staminodia. Carpels usually 3, rarely 2 or 1, glabrous, 2-ovulate. 



Queensland. Moretou Island, M'Gillivray, T. Mueller, \ 



N. S, "WTales. Port Jarkson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 138, and Fl. Mi^t. n. 503, and j 

 others ; and nortlnvard to New EuglantI, C. Stuart. 



'Kds.floribunda. Sepals more acute aud rather hairy. Stamens more numerous. — Feels 

 Island, A, Cunrnvgham. 



Var. grandijiora. Sepals above 4 lines long. Stamens about 50. — New England, C. 

 Stuart, 



Var.? obtusifulia. More rigid than the normal form, more frequently erect, and more 

 or less hairy, with a minute crisped or shoitly stellate tomentum, sometimes densely and 

 softly pubescent, and very rarely glabrous. Leaves from linear to broadly oblong-spathu- 

 late, very obtuse or truncate, in some soutlicru specimens above \\ in. long, and mostly 

 narrowed into a short petiole. Flowers rather larger than in the normal variety, with 

 numerous stamens. — //. ohtusifolia^ DC. Syst. Yeg. i. 429 ; II, canesceyis, Sieb. in Spreiig- 

 Syst. Cur. Post. 211. 



Queensland. Brisbane and Burnett rivers, T. Mtieller. 



N. S, "Wales- Port Jackson, Sieder, n. 140; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller; and other 

 places south of Sydney, A, Cimninf/ham, 



Victoria. Goulburn river, towards the Dandenong ranges, and on the northern slopes 

 of the Austraiiau Alps, F. MueUpv ; also in Mitchell's collections. The majority of spe- 

 cimens of this variety have a very different aspect from those of the typical i/. linearis > 

 but as there ai-e certainly niunerous intermediates, I feel compelled to follow P. Mueller m 

 uniting them as varieties. He also includes iu the same species the following B. dtfisa^ 

 which, however, appears to mc to be rather more constant in it» characters. The speci- 

 mens described by I)e CanduUe were from Port Jackson^ not from Van Diemen's Laud. 



51. H. diflfusa, i?. Br. in LC. Syst. Veg. i, 429. Stems low, usually 

 difluse or prostrate, with numerous short ascending branches, pubescent or at 

 lejigth glabrous. Loaves from obovate to linear-cuncatc, veiy obtuse or trun- 

 cate, seldom above \ in, long, and then often 2- or 3-tootheJ. Peduncles 

 very short. S^jpals broadly oblong, obtuse, about 4 lines long, the outer ones 

 rather shorter and narrower. Petals obovate, entire. Stamens about 20 it) 

 25, without staminodia. Carpels usually 3, or rarely 2 or 4, glabrous, "* 

 ovulate. 



K. S, VTales. Port Jaek.on, It. Brown, Sieher, n. 145, nn.l FL MUL n, 501, an 



others. • 





