14 FLORA OP TASMANIA. [Dilleniacece . 
Yar. /9. prostrata ; ramis brevibus prostratis, foliis brevioribus. — H. prostrata, Hook. Jonrn. Bot. i. 
246, ii. 413. (Gun*, 642.) 
Var. 7. glabrata ; prostrata, foliis parvis glabris, ramulis brevissimis. {Gunn, 1023.) 
Hab. Circular Head, in sandy soil, Gunn. Yar. /3. Abundant throughout the Colony ; ascending to 
2-3000 feet, Lawrence, Gunn, etc. Yar. 7. Lake St. Clair, Gunn.— (El Oct. Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distilib. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia. 
An erect shrub, from 6-18 inches high, fasciculately branched. — Branches erect, very leafy, slender; all parts 
perfectly glabrous, or more or less covered with long white silky hairs. Leaves in tufts, very narrow, |-1 inch 
long, spreading, a little curved, thick, margins not revolute, grooved down the middle. Flowers large, f inch in 
diameter. Sepals elliptical-ovate, mucronate. Petals obcordate. Stamens about twelve, united in bundles alternating 
with the carpels, of three, four, and five in each bundle respectively. Ovaries three, glabrous. Ovules two. Fruit 
This entirely agrees with De Candolle's character of H. fascicuht/a, Br. ; and with Mr. Brown's specimens in 
the British Museum, and appears the same as Sieber's II. camphorosnia, winch has rather smaller flowers, but the 
same leaves and number of parts. Lehmann (Plant. Preiss. ii. 236) mentions this as a native of York (Western 
Australia) ; I do not however find it amongst Drummond's plants, but there is an allied species, w ii h revolttte margins 
to the leaves, from that country. The var. prostrata is the common Tasmanian form : it was erroneously cha- 
racterized originally as having a solitary carpel ; uvarits from glabrous to silky. I have gathered exactly inter- 
mediate forms on the sandy flats opposite Hobarton. 
3. Hibbertia virgata (Br. in DC. Syst. i. 418); glabra, erecta, stricta, ramis tenuibus virgatis 
ultimis puberulis, foliis in ramulis lateralibus brevissimis sparsis fasciculatis alternisve angustc linearibus 
sensim dilatatis obtusis planis sulcatis, floribus ramis subsessilibus axillisve foliorum sessilibus, bracteis ci- 
liatis ovato-rotundatis acuminatis, sepalis obovato-oblongis retusis acutis mucronatisve, petalis obcordatis, 
staminibus sub-10 in phalanges 3 obscure approximatis, ovariis 3 glaberrimis, ovulis 2. — DC. Prodr. i. 74. 
{Gunn, 1940.) 
Hab. On the road from Georgetown to Currie's River, in sandy soil, Gunn. — (Fl. Oct.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
An erect, twiggy, sparingly leafy shrub, a span high. — Branches very slender, slightly downy at the tips. 
Leaves alternate, or fascicled on abbreviated lateral branchlets, strict, 1—1 inch long, narrow and slender, grooved 
above; margins not recurved, blunt. Flowers axillary, or sessile on very short leafy lateral brancMetB, similar to 
those of R. fasciculata, but stamens fewer, about ten, approximated in three (not two, as De Candolle says) bundles. 
—This is allied to some Sydney and West Australian species, but is cmite distinct, and most likely confined to South- 
eastern Australia and the opposite shores of Tasmania, for De Candolle's locality of Port Jackson is probably erro- 
neous; Brown's specimens in the British Museum are marked as coming from the south coast of New Holland. 
4. Hibbertia ericaefolia (Hook, fil.) ; glabra, prostrata, humifusa, ramulis gracilibus ascendentibus 
ciliatis puberulisve, foliis (parvis) sparsis acicularibus coriaceis rigidis in petiolum brevem angustatis obtusis 
marginibus revolutis lsevibus v. sparse minute tuberculatis superne enerviis costa inferne valida, floribus ter- 
ninalibus sessilibus, bracteis parvis subulatis ciliatis, sepalis oblongo-obovatis obtusis acutis v. mucronatis 
glabris, petalis obcordatis, staminibus 10 in phalanges 3 obscure approximatis, carpellis 3 villosis 4-ovulatis. 
{Gunn, 1022.) (Tab. III.) 
Hab. Common on the serpentine formation, Asbestos Hills ; also at Launceston and Georgetown, 
Gir,in.~-(Y\. Oct, Nov.) 
Habit of H. procumbens, but with smaller, more rigid ami heath-iike i«miB, ami with sen different ovaries. 
—Prostrate, with rarely erect branches ; the latter slender, pubescent or ciliated at the tips, brown. Leaves 
