14 II. DILLENIACE^. [Hibbertia. 



ones usually pointed, the inner broader and more obtuse, glabrous, or nearly so. 

 Petals broad. Stamens usually 10 to 12. Carpels downy or villous, with 2 to 4 

 ovules. Arillus sometimes almost enveloping the seed, sometimes very short. — 

 Pleurandra ovata, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. ii. 5, t. 143 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 16. 

 Hab. : Southern Queensland, common. 



8. H. acicularis (needle-like), F. Muell. PL Vict. i. 17 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 i. 29. Nearly or quite glabrous, procumbent or diffuse, with a thick woody stock, 

 and numerous branches, short and intricate, or lengthened to a foot. Leaves 

 narrow-linear, rigid, with a stiff, often pungent point, about 3 to 6 lines long, 

 the margins recurved. Pedicels terminal or axillary, often on very short shoots, 

 with a few leaves at the base sometimes reduced to minute bracts, recurved, J to 

 fin. long. Sepals glabrous, or very slightly downy, about 2 lines long. Stamens 

 usually 8, or fewer. Carpels downy, or rarely glabrous, with 2, or very rarely 4 

 ovules. — Pleurandra acicularis, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. ii. 6, t. 144 ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Tasm. i. 15. 



Hab. : Common on ironbark forest land in southern Queensland. 



9. H. velutina (velvety) E. Br. ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 80. Shrub, all parts 

 clothed with a whitish velvety tomentum ; height 4 to 6ft., and spreading ; 

 branches prominently angled. Leaves oblong-ovate, 1 to nearly 2in. long, 

 3 to 7 lines broad, much tapering towards a petiole of , about a line 

 long ; midrib very prominent, lateral veins patent and distinct, margins 

 recurved. Peduncles axillary near the ^nds of the branches, flattened, f to fin. 

 long, with a narrow bract close under the calyx. Sepals 3 or 4 lines long, outer 

 ones acute, inner ones obtuse, and wider. Petals broadly obovate, about i^in. 

 long. Stamens numerous. Carpels 8, at first silky then rather echinate, 2- 

 ■ovulate. 



Hab. : On summit of Mount Harold, off Tringilburra Creek, and Walsh's Pyramid, Mulgrave 

 Elver. 



10. H. melhanoides (Melhania-like), F. r. M. Fragm. iv. 116. An erect shrub 

 of 8 to 4ft. ; thinly clothed with a stellate pubescence, branches angular. Leaves 

 If to 3in. long, 5 to 9 lines broad, oblong-lanceolate, quite entire, smooth, 

 glaucous, and somewhat scabrous on the under surface. — Petioles very short. 

 Peduncles solitary, very short, slender, angular. Bracts If to 2f lines long. 

 Outer sepals 4 to 6 lines, 1 -nerved, almost lanceolate, inner one ovate or roundish. 

 Petals obcordate, stamens 40 to 60, filaments 1 to If line long. Staminodia 

 few. Anthers f to 1 line. Style scaly below the middle. 



Hab. : Eookingham Bay. 



11. H. lepidota (scaly), R. Br. in DC. Syst. Veg. i. 432 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 i. 31. Branches stiff but slender, covered as well as the leaves and sepals with a 

 close silvery or slightly rusty tomentum, consisting of minute peltate scales with 

 scarious edges. Leaves linear, rather acute, mostly f to fin. long, concave, the 

 margins not revolute. Flowers rather small, on pedicels of 1 to 3 lines, solitary 

 or 2 or 3 together in the axils. Sepals broad, very obtuse, about 2 lines long, or 

 3 when in fruit, the 2 outer rather shorter. Stamens about 12, mostly, but not 

 all, on one side of the carpels, with several small staminodia outside. Carpels 2, 

 scaly-tomentose, 2-ovulate. 



Hab. : Northeote, B. C. Burton. 



12. H. vestita (clothed), A. Cunn. Herb. ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 31. Branches 

 elongated, decumbent or erect, clothed as well as the young leaves with short 

 spreading hairs. Leaves narrow-linear, obtuse, 3 to 4 lines long, rigid with 

 recurved margins, often glabrous when full grown. Flowers nearly sessile, in 

 clusters of floral leaves shorter than them, the inner ones passing into §mall lin^a^r 



