mUertia.] II. DILLENIAOE^. 17 



subulate. Sepals 6 to 10 lines long, outer ones tenui-acuminate, inner ones 

 subovate or lanceolate-ovate. Petals not incised at the top. Stamens 200 to 

 300, filaments about 2 lines long, slender, a few reduced to staminodia. Styles 

 about 2 lines. Carpels acute. 



Hab. : Bockingham Bay. 



Specimens of this species have been several times forwarded to me as a suspected poisonous 

 plant. 



21. H. oenotheroides (like evening primrose), F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 37. 

 Plant perfectly glabrous, branches angular. Leaves narrow or linear-lanceolate, 

 2 to Sin. long, 2 to 4 lines broad, rarely broader, pale underneath the base, not 

 broadly stem-clasping, margins entire recurved, apex acute. Peduncles about 4 

 lines long. Bracts subulate-linear, about 5 lines long. Sepals about 8 lines 

 long, the outer ones subulate-acuminate. Petals about 10 lines, obcordate, 

 bilobed. Stamens about 110, filaments 2 lines long. Anthers scarcely 1 line. 

 Staminodia capillare about 60. Carpels 4. 



Hab. ; Gilbert Eiver, R. Daintree. 



22. H. Bennettii (after F. Bennett), Bail. Ql. Agri. Journ. June 1899. A 

 spreading shrub from 6 to 18in. high, quite glabrous, branches angular. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, 1^ to 3|^in. long, 2 to 4 lines broad, slightly expanding and 

 shortly clasping the stem at the base, veins obscure, pale on the under side, 

 margins revolute, apex subulate. Peduncles terminal on the branchlets, somewhat 

 flattened, 6 to 12 lines longs, bracts at the base short, clasping the peduncle, the 

 one close under the flower narrow lanceolate, 3 to 4 lines long, often patent. 

 Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 6 to 8 lines long, 8 to 4 lines broad, the inner ones the 

 broadest, with more scarious margins. Expanded flower nearly 2in. diameter. 

 Petals obovate or broad-cuneate, with minute mucro in the centre but scarcely 

 showing lobes, about 8 or 9 lines long and nearly as broad. Stamens numerous, 

 filaments about 2 lines long. Anthers oblong, obtuse opening laterally, about 

 I line long ; only a very few of the outer filaments wanting anthers. Carpels 3, 

 glabrous, 3-ovulate.. Seeds globose, brown, 1^ line diameter. 



Hab. : Irvinebank, F. Bennett, who says that the plant is known locally as the " Arsenic 

 Plant " and that it is considered exceptionally poisonous to stock. 



4. ADRAST.ffiA, DC. 



(After the Goddess). 



Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens 10, or occasionally fewer, in a single series, 

 ' filaments dilated and regularly cohering in a short tube round the pistil. Carpels 

 and fruit of Hibbertia. 



The genus consists of only one species, with the habit of a Hibbertia or Candollea. — Benth. 



1. A. salicifolia (willow-leaved), DC. Syst. Veg. i. 424; Benth. Fl. Amtr. 

 i. 46. Branches rather slender, apparently erect, the young ; ones silky-hairy. 

 Leaves linear or linear-oblong, mostly with a minute fine point, f to IJin. long, 

 often bordered by a few remote and minute callous teeth, glabrous above when 

 old, more or less silky underneath. Flowers small, sessile in clusters of small 

 leaves in the older axils. .Sepals lanceolate, very acute, nearly 3 lines, long. 

 Petals scarcely longer, obovate- oblong, obtuse. Anthers oblong, longer than the 

 filaments. Carpels 2, glabrous, l-ovulate. — Hibbertia salicifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. 

 i. 161. 



Hab. : In the southern swamps of the colony. 

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