Billeniacea. ] FLOR A 01 TASMANIA, 
Gunn remarks that the neighbourhood of the sea is the principal region of DM 
species being found within a few miles of Georgetown. They usualh grow in light sandy soil, .'111.1 vary 
much. About ninety Australian species are known, the greater number of which are found in ilie south- 
western parts; few or none of these afe common to the south-eastern side; there are also a I'vw tropical 
species. 
Gen. I. HIBBEini . 
Sepala 5, persistentia. Petala 5. Stamina indefinita, libera v. in phalanges approxiinata. Or.irin 
ssepius 2-5, unilocularia, ovulis e sutura ventrali ascendentibus. St//!', terminate, divan. 
membranaceac, intus longitudinaliter dehiscentes, 1 -polyspermy. Semin.i arillata. — Suil'rmi. 1 - 
erecti, procumlentcs v. rat iia aHernis, coriaccits ; floribus sapejatidu, ier 
dunculatis v. sessilibus. 
Procumbent or erect, often rigid, small heath-like shrubs, sometimes however scandent : all are routined to 
Anstralia.— Leaves alternate, coriaceous. Flowers often fetid, tenniual, Bolitary, pedunded or st->i! 
persistent. Petals five, yellow. Stamens numerous, free, or united at the base into several bundle:-. Onir'u* 
generally 2-5, with diverging shies. Fruit of two or more membranous carpek that dehisce down the wntral 
suture. Seeds rounded, attached to the ventral suture, asc.ndim:, arillate. T,slu often shinin- 
(Named in honour of Dr. Ilibbert.) 
1. Hibbertia procumbens (DC. Syst. i. 1:27); glabra v. serieco-pilosa, rnulihu* prorumbentibus 
foliosis, foliis linenribus lineari-obovatisvo obtusis acutisve erassiii-culis a\i m'is, lloribns amplis terminalibus 
sessilibus, sepalis late ovato-rotundatis mucronatis, petalia obovato-rotundatifl, Btaminibufl rob-20 in phi- 
langes 4 obscure approximatis, nlamentis gracilibus, antheria brevibus, ovariis 1-5 glabris, ovulis sub- 1-6, 
seminibus 1-5, testa pallide brunnea. — DC. Prodr. i. 7 1 . i. 246. Dillenia procum- 
bens, Lab. Fl. Nov. Roll. ii. 16. t. 156. H. angustifolia, Salid. Par. Land, n. 73. II. obtusilblia, DC I e. 
{Gunn, 638.) 
Hab. Abundant in open heathy places, Brown, Laurence, Gunn, etc. — (Fl. Oct. Nov.) {v. v.) 
A small, spreading, depressed shrub, with slender, prostrate, leafy twigs, bright green foliage, and large golden 
flowers. — Root stout, woody. Branches prostrate, rarely ascending or erect, 2-12 inches long, much divided, tufted, 
covered with thin red bark, glabrous or pubescent towards the tips. /. j; linear, slightly 
expanded towards the sharp or blunt tips, f-1 inch long, but sometimes //. nbtwiijblia. IK. < much smaller, obovate 
and erect, always nerveless, flat, and opaque, glabrous or covered with scattered silky hairs. Flower* 1 inch in diameter, 
fetid in warm w T eather. Sepals imbricate in bud, o rte. Petals one-third 
calyx. Stamens disposed in four bundles of unequal numbers. 
Ovaries 4-5, quite glabrous, with long styles. Ot 
Seeds 2-5, globose. Testa pah; brown, smooth, brittle, ihini 
albumen, which is densely Beshj md offlj. Wsnhyo not found 
split into subulate laeini;v. — Mr. (.mm remarks that a hairy form sprang up at Ib.cky < ape after the vegetation 
had been burned off the ground. 
2. Hibbertia fasciculate (Br. in DC. Syst. i. 128) ; glabra 
gatis ultimis brevissimis, fokis fasciculatis planis linear! - 
laterales terminantibus amplis, staminibus sub-12 in fasciculos 3-4 dispositis, ovariis 3-4 2-ovulatis. — DC. 
Prodr. i. 74. H. virgata, Hook. Ic. PL 267, Loud, Jonm. Bot. ii. 403. ? H. camphorosma, Sieb. 146. 
[Gunn, 465.) 
