Refugium Botanicum. | (September, 1869. 
TAB. 145. 
Natural Order D1InLENIACE&. 
Tribe H1rppEertiER. 
Genus Hisperria, Andr. 
Sect. PLeuRANDRA. Stamina unilateralia; staminodia nulla; pedunculi 
uniflori ; ovaria 2, seepissime villosa. 
H. stricta (R. Brown). Frutex humilis ramis copiosis griseo-pubes- 
centibus, foliis parvis linearibus margine revolutis, plus minus 
stellato-tomentosis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis pubescentibus, inte- 
rioribus marginibus late membranaceis, petalis obovatis emarginatis 
patulis sepalis excedentibus, staminibus 8—12, carpellis griseo- 
villosis 4—6-ovulatis, stylis filiformibus staminibus equantibus. — 
F, Muell. Pl. Vict. i. p. 15; Benth. Fl. Austral. i. p. 27. Pleu- 
randra stricta, riparia é& ericifolia, D.C. Prodr. i. p. 419—422. 
P. cistiflora, Sieb. Reich. Icon. Exot. t. 79. 
Frequent in several parts of Australia. 
A very variable plant, especially in habit of growth and 
pubescence. ‘The variety from which our figure and description 
are made was received under the name of Hibbertia Reedw. An 
erect copiously branched woody shrub under a foot high, the 
young twigs reddish, and copiously clothed with gray spreading 
pubescence, the old branches gray and denuded. Leaves crowded, 
quite sessile, linear, rigid, a quarter to half an inch long, with a 
bluntish point and persistently revolute edges rolled back to the 
thick midrib, gray-green and abundantly clothed with short 
spreading silvery hairs. lowers abundant, terminal on short 
branchlets, sometimes nearly sessile. Sepals five, ovate-lanceolate, 
pale green, pubescent lke the leaves on the outside, the inner 
ones with broadly membranous edges. Expanded flower half to 
five-eighths of an inch across, the petals pale yellow, broadly 
obovate, emarginate at the apex, when expanded spreading 
almost horizontally. Stamens 6—9, all placed on one side of the 
carpels, the short filaments united at the base. Carpels 4—6- 
ovulate, densely gray-silky, the filiform styles equalling the sta- 
mens. Capsules small, membranous, pubescent. 
Tab. 145.—1, leaf from above; 2, ditto from below; 38, flower closed ; 
4, ditto open; 5, single petal; 6, open flower without petals; 7, sta- 
mens of one flower; 8, pistil of ditto: all magnified.—J. G. B. 
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