PL AT E*CCCCLXAXITI. 
HIBBERTIA CRENATA. 
Scolloped-leaved Hibbertia. 
CLASS XIII. ORDER X. 
POLYANDRIA DECAGYNIA. Many Chives. Ten Pointals. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
- Caryx 5-phylltis. Petala5, Stamina nume- EMPALEMENT 5-leaved. Five petals. Chives 
rosa, receptaculo inserta. Germina quin- numerous, inserted into the receptacle. 
que vel decem, desinentia in stylis, oligo= Seed-buds 5 or 10, terminating in shafts, 
sperma, few-seeded. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hiseertta foliis crenatis, sub-cordatis: flori- Hissert1a with scolloped leaves nearly heart- 
bus solitariis, axillaribus, luteis, patentibus. shaped. Flowers grow singly from the in- 
Caulis fruticosus: ramis patentibus, nu- sertion of the leaves, are of a yellow colour, 
merosis, purpureis, and spreading. Stem shrubby. Branches 
spreading, numerous, and purple. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The empalement. 
2.. A petal. 
"3. Chives and pointals. 
4, Seed-buds and pointals. 
5, A seed-bud and pointal, magnified. 
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‘Tuts is an addition to the genus Hibbertia, but differs from the H. volubilis in having ten pointals 
instead of five ; and will most likely, when more of the genus are in cultivation with us, . 
roe _ section under the title of decagynia, and the original of the genus as pentagynia : a mode frequently 
~ adopted, to prevent that confusion too often attending the formation of new genera. Under this 
= the genus of Hibbertia will be considerably enlarged, and certainly no genus mom 
od _ deserves it than that which bears the name of such a liberal promoter of botanic science. os 
_ Our figure represents the entire plant, from the nursery of Messrs, Colville, where it was first 
from seeds received from New South Wales, 
