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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



II. HIBBEETIA SERIES. 



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

 or bundles of stamens is definite. In Hlhhertia^ 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 flower are those of Candollca. Thus, in the flower 



Sihlertia vohtbilis. 

 Fig. 128. 



of If. voIi/bUis Andr.^ (ligs. 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 



' Illhhertia Andh., Bot. Rcpos., t. 126, 472. Cat. h. Canfahr. (ex Vext., C/i. de plant., 11).— 



— Salisb., jPar. Loud., t. 73. — DC, IStfst., i. B. scandens W., Spec, ii. 1251. — D. speciosa 



425; Prodr., i. 73. — Spach, Suit, a Buff., \iu Curt., 5of. Jfa^., t. 449, nee Thg. — D.turnerce- 



420. — Endl , Of'n.,u. 4753. — Payer, Organog., flora Gawl., Bot. Rep., 27. 



283, t. 51, tigs. 1-17. — B. H., Gen., 14, 11. 13. — ^ \\\ cultivation, we may find exceptional 



H. B>'., Adansonia, vi. 279. tetr.imerous flowers. 



' Bot. Rep., t. 126. — DiUenia humilis DoN., 



