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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Dilleniacece. 
Stems from a span to 2 feet long. Leaves sliort-stalked, often crowded, 1J-4 lines long, ±-l line 
broad, somewhat acute, generally clothed with short stiff spreading hair arising from points, above nerveless. 
Peduncles variable in length, generally short, but sometimes obliterated or frilly an inch long, towards the 
base often but not always provided with one or more minute ciliate channelled subulate bracts. Sepals 
about 3 lines long, generally hairy; the outer ones quite herbaceous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, the inner 
ones ovate or ovate-orbicular, with membranous margin. Petals but slightly exserted. Anthers about as 
long as the filaments, oblong, with attenuate base and slightly emarginate apex, their dehiscence introrse. 
Carpels about 1| line long. Seeds shining, brown, nearly ovate, and 1 line long, with a truncate or lobed 
arillus. 
This species produces its flowers during the spring season. All its specimens contained in our collection 
are trigynous, by which note it differs already from H. pedunculata, H. serpillifolia, and H. aspera, all which 
species however require a new disquisition. 
Hibbertia diffusa, R. Br. in Cand. Syst . i. 429; H. monogyna, R. Br. 1. c. 
Stems erect or spreading; leaves alternate or generally fasciculate, herbaceous, flat, obovate- or oblong- 
cioieate , tapering into the petiole, blunt, entire or few-toothed towards the apex, one-nerved, not distinctly 
veined, either smooth or somewhat downy; on both pages opaque, of equal color, and often glaucous ; flowers 
sessile, terminal, solitary, without conspicuous bracts; outer sepals oblong, inner ones ovate, with membranous 
margin; petals elong*ate-obcordate; stamens numerous; ovaries 2-4, glabrous; carpels one-seeded; seed 
spheroid; arillus fnnged many-cleft, of less than half the length of the seeds. 
On wooded, barren or less fertile mountain ranges, in the eastern part of this colony, viz., from Dande- 
nong to the Upper Yarra, the Rivers Goulburn, Delatite, Ovens, King, and Murray; also in many parts of 
Gipps Land; thence through New South Wales as far north as Moreton Bay. 
A generally dwarf shrub, attaining however sometimes the height of several feet. Branches when 
young tomentose, in age glabrous. Petioles articulated with the prominent lengthened and almost clasping 
cicatrix, which may be regarded as their persistent base. Leaves £-1J inch long, 2-6 lines broad, slightly 
fleshy, blunt, less commonly notched at the apex, not frequently toothed, often clothed with very short crisp 
solitary and fasciculate evanescent hair. Sepals ciliolate, outer ones 2-3 lines, inner ones 3-4 lines long. 
Bracts minute, lanceolate, deciduous. Petals J-J inch long, with narrow base. Stamens 20-36, on one side 
of the flower more crowded than on the other. Anthers oblong, about § line long’, their dehiscence ahnost 
marginal. Filaments linear-setaceous, at last frilly 2 lines long. Styles 3-4. Ovaries with two ovules. 
Carpels globose or ovate, or even ovate club-shaped, tardily dehiscent, 1J—2 lines long’. Seeds spherical, 
shining brown, 1-1^ line long; their deeply-cleft arillus lengthened considerably into a somewhat fleshy 
base. 
ZZibbertia angrustifolia, Salisb. Parad. Londin . 73; Dillenia procumbens, Labill. Nov. Boll 
Plant . Specim . ii. 16, t. 156; Hibbertia procumbens, Cand. Syst. i. 42?; H. virgata, P. Br. in Cand. Syst. 
1. c., Book. Icon. Plant. 267; H. fasciculata, R. Br. I. c.; H. prostrata, Hook. Jour. Bot. i. 246; H. 
glandulosa, Sclilechtend. Linrusa, xx. 626; Pleurandra camphorosma, Sieber in Spreng. Cur. Post. 191, 
Erect, spreading* or procumbent, short-downy, silky-hairy, tomentose or glabrous; leaves alternate or 
moie frequently fasciculate, linear or setaceous-linear, channelled or fat, never revolute at their margin, often 
slightly dilated towards the summit, beneath convex; flowers axillary and terminal, solitary, sessile; bracts 
1—3, scarious, broad-ovate or lanceolate or subulate-lanceolate, cuspidate; outer sepals lanceolate-ovate 
pointed, inner ones broad-ovate *or roundish, all with membranous margin; petals obcordate, with slight 
tei minal sinus; stamens 7-24, partially and obscurely connected into bundles; anthers broad- or oblong-ovate 
emarginate, below the middle not or tardily dehiscent; ovaries 3, rarely 4-5, glabrous; carpels 1-2- rarely 
3-5-seeded; arillus deeply andfmbriately many-cleft. 
