PLATE CXXV r I. 



HIBBERTIA VOLUBILIS. 

 Twining Hibbertia. 



CLASS XIII. ORDER V. 



POLYANDRIA PKNTAGYNIA. Many Chives. Five Pointals. 



GEXERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthium pentaphyllum; follolis 



coriaceis, fub-ovatiSj concavis, acutis, per- 



filtentibus. 

 Corolla. Pctala quinque, obcordata, calyce 



longiora. 

 Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, filiformia, re- 



ceptaculo fruftificationis inferta. Antheras 



lineares, ereftae, emarginatae. 



Pistilla. Germina quinque, ovato-oblonga, 

 delinentia in flylos flexuofos, longitudine 

 fere ftaminum. Stigmata fimplicia, apice 

 cod cava. Corpufculum fubulatum, nicra- 

 branaceum in medio germinum, eorumque 

 longitudine. 



Pericarpium. Capfulae quinque ovatae, tri- 

 gone, uniloculares, diffinctae. 



Semi N a plurima, lubrotunda. 



Empai.f.mhnt. Cup five leaves; leaflets tough, 

 nearly egg fhaped, concave, fharp, and re- 

 maining. 



Blossom. Five petals, inverlely heart-iliaped, 

 longer than the cup. 



Chives. Threads numerous, thread-fliaped, 

 fixed into the receptacle of the fructifica- 

 tion. Tips linear, upright, notched at the 

 ends. 



Pointals. Five feed-buds, between oblong 

 and egg-lliaped, terminating in zig-zagged 

 fhafts, nearly the length of the chives. 

 Summits, Ample, and hollowed at the top. 

 A fmall awl-lhaped, lkinny fubftancein the 

 middle of the feed-buds, and of their length. 



Seed-vessel. Five capfules, egg fhaped, three- 

 tided, one celled, and diliinCi. 



Seeds man}', roundifh. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Hibbertia foliis obtufe-ferratis, obovato-lancco- 

 latis, floribus folitariis, fellilibus, foeti- 

 diffimis. 



Hibbertia with obtufely (awed leaves, between 

 lance and inverlely egg fhaped ; flowers grow 

 folitary, fitting clofe on the ftera; very foetid. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empale ment. 



2. \ leaf of the blofloin. 



3. The Chives and Pointals. 

 -I. ()m Chive, magnified. 



5. Pointals apart, as they Eland in (he center of Chives. 



(J. The Pointals fpread open, wilh the lkinny fubllance which ftands in their center. 



7. One of the Pointals, magnified. 



8. A Seed-bud, cut tranl'verfely. 

 g. A half ripe feed, magnified. 



The Hibbertia volubilis, (as are the three fpecies of which wc have feen fpecimens,) is from New 

 Holland, near Port Jack Ion ; was raifed from feec . in many different collections near London in the 

 year 17.02. It is a hardy green houfe plant, and makes a very handlbme climber, for trellis, or 

 pillars in a confervatory. Its growth is very rapid, and its flowers which are very brilliant and fpe- 

 cions, continue in fuccefiion from May till September. The increafe is certain and eafy from cut- 

 tings, made in the month of May, and placed on a gentle hotbed, or plunged in the bark-bed of the 

 hothoufe. It delights in a light fandy peat foil. Our drawing was made from a plant, in the collec- 

 tion of the Hon. Ladv Dowager De Clifford, Paddington. 



As hitherto this tribe of Plants has not been given to the public by any truly eftablifhcd name; 

 (the different fpecies having been erroneoully titled Dillenias, which have many pointals,) and as we 

 find it to differ, from any yet defcribed Genus, we have named it after G. Hibbert, Efq. of Clapham 

 Common, Surry; whole knowledge and fervor in botanical purfuits, as well as liberality in his endea- 

 vours to enrich our collections, from every quarter of the globe, but efpecially from the Cape of 

 Good Hope, has not been exceeded by any ; and we are well allured, no name deferves a place, on 

 botanical record, more than thai of Hibekrt. 



