DILLENIACEiE. 



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Var. ? y. canescens : foliis spathulatis oblanceolatisve integerrimis emar- 

 ginatis utrinque cinereo-pubescentibus ; sepalis extimis dorso puberulis ; 

 floribus paullo majoribus. 



Hibbertia canescens, Planchon, in Herb. Hook., non Sieb. ex. char. 



Hab. Sydney, New South Wales. Yar. (3, Puen Buen; and y, 

 Hunter's River, New South Wales. 



The stems of the typical H. diffusa are about a span high, from a 

 thickened woody base, very diffuse; the branchlets minutely pubes- 

 cent. The leaves are wholly glabrous, except the very youngest, quite 

 variable in size and form ; the larger an inch long and half an inch 

 wide, dilated-cumiform, tapering into a narrow base, emarginate, and 

 mostly coarsely and obtusely 2-5-toot7ied towards the summit; others 

 are narrowly spatulate, or cuneate, half an inch or less long, only one 

 or two lines wide, and usually entire. Sepals glabrous, or nearly so. 

 Ovaries glabrous. — What I refer to var. j3 has rather more upright 

 branches, which, like the narrower and sometimes oblanceolate, or 

 lanceolate, mostly entire leaves, &c, are clothed with a fine cinereous, 

 but more or less deciduous pubescence. This is no doubt a mere variety 

 of H. diffusa. But it runs into the var. y, which is stouter and more 

 upright, with rather larger flowers ; the leaves all entire, oblanceolate 

 or narrowly cuneiform-spatulate, and clothed with a more cinereous 

 pubescence, which is tardily somewhat deciduous. There is no dif- 

 ference in the flowers, except that the exterior sepals are more or less 

 pubescent outside. It has been gathered by Dr. Hooker and others 

 around Sydney, and is named H. canescens, Sieb., in the Hookerian 

 herbarium : but that species is characterized as having pubescent ova- 

 ries, and leaves pilose above and glabrous underneath. 



5. Hibbertia fasciculata, R. Br. I. c. 

 Hab. Sydney, New South Wales. 



6. Hibbertia Camphorosma. 

 H. pilosula; foliis subulato-filiformibus fasciculatis brevibus quam 



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