90 NATURAL HI STORY OF PLANTS. 



11. HIBBERTIA SERIES. 



In all the genera we have as yet examined, tlie number of stamens 

 or bundles of stamens is definite. In liihhcrtia,^ on the contrary, 

 we observe at maturity an indefinite number of stamens free, or 

 nearly so, for almost their whole length. In other respects all the 

 characters of the tiower are those of Candolk-a. Thus, in the liower 



Hibberiia volubttis. 

 Fio. 128. 



of J/. voIubUia Andr." (figs. 128, 130), we see, on the slightly convex 

 receptacle, a calyx of five' unequal, unlike sepals quincuncially 

 imbricated in the bud (fig. 129) ; a corolla of five petals alternate 



• Uihherlia Andu., Bot. Repos., t. 120, >72. 



Sai.ISU., Par. bond., t. 73. — DC, Si/xt., i. 



425 ; Prudr., i. 73.— Spach, Suit, a Huff., vii. 

 420.— Kndi., Oen.,\\. 47r,:».— Payku, (>r<f,inog., 

 283. t. 51, fij,'H. 1-17.— H. II., (i'-n., 14, n. 13.— 

 H. Hn., Adimsonifi, vi. 27'.'. 



' £oi. Rep., t. 120. — Dillenia humilU Don., 



Cat. h. Canlabr. (ex Vknt., Ch. d« plant., 11). — 

 D. scaiidfiis W., Spec, ii. 1251. — 1). tpeciosa 

 CrRT., Hot. ifiitf., t. 4-t9, nccTno.—JJ. immera- 

 Jloru 0.1WL.. Bot. Jirp.. 27. 



' In cuUiviition, wf iimy finil exceptional 

 tt'tr.inicronM flowtrs. 



