Avavstirorta.4. Dillenia procumbens, La Bill. PI, Nov, Holl, tom, 2.p. 16. t. 156, Caulis decumbens, 
Foliorum Lamine lineari-lanceolata, integerrime. Flores \-ru, pedunculis brevibus, Filamenta 16-24. 
Pericarpia 3-5, 2-4-sperma. Juxta Cap Diemen, legit J. J, La BILLARDIERE. 
A wrong type having been used for this sheet of the Paradisus Londinensis, itis necessary to re- 
print it, and I gladly seize the opportunity of joining the plant called Burtonia in the 73d plate to Hid- 
perfection than usual, the valves of its anthers splitting and discharging their pollen far below the top, 
so that these two plants, with some others from New Holland, differ much less than I at first sup- 
d. The essential character of the genus therefore as now described, consists in its deciduous pe- 
tals, clustered fruits, and cylindrical styles. Colbertia and Dillenia, have a large sessile radiated 
stigma. 
Stem dark red, slender, trailing on the ground, round, hairy. Leaves at first bright green, after- 
wards darker, and tinged with red : petiole short, hollow, dilated at the bottom: lamina nearly or- 
bicular, toothed, nerved, rough, with very short hairs, somewhat wrinkled. Flowers like those of Po- 
long, 
13. plotnétated and bearded with long white hairs. Seeds 2, pale brown, about 1 line in diameter, 
globular, smooth, surrounded to the middle by a white shining Arillus irregularly laciniated : Testa 
thick and hard 
exceedingly minute, near the Hilum, 2-cotyledonous. 
ibbertia belongs to an Order hitherto undefined, I have above prefixed some of the characters 
of it, as well as of other genera in it, On these occasions, it has been remarked in the eighth volume 
of the Linnean Transactions, that I should name the Order from the most conspicuous genus, alter~ 
ing its plural termination to é@ long instead of the fastidious oidew, and that thus all confusion, 
when it is necessary to write or speak of both in that number, is avoided, 
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REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Petal. 2. Calyx, Stamina and Pistilla somewhat magnified. 3, Two views of a Stamen 
highly magnified. 4. A Pistillum highly magnified. 5. The same cut open, to show the inser- 
tion and number ofseeds. 6. Stigma highly magnified. 
