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HIBBERTIA pedunculata. 
,; Long-stalked Hibbertia. 
mS 
POLYANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. DILLENIACER. 
HIBBERTIA, Supra, vol. 4. fol. 282. 
§. III. Ovariis 2-4 pube brevi velutinis squamulisve lepidotis. Dec. 
. syst. 1, 480. ; 
H. pedunculata ; foliis lnearibus obtusiusculis margine subrevolutis, floribus 
pedicellatis digynis (tri-pentagynis), ovariis subincanis. Dec. 1. c.—prodr. 
1. 74. 
H. corifolia. Bot. mag. 2672. : 
Suffrutex pedalis, in spontaneis suberectus, in cultis. decumbens. ~Rami 
Jiliformes, teretes, pilost. Folia linearia, sessilia, obtusa, margine subdentz- 
culata, parce pilosa, adultis reflexis. Flores solitarii, terminales, pedunculatz, 
pedunculo filiformi, piloso, colorato. Calyx inferus, unibracteolatus, pentu- 
phyllus, sepalis concavis, pilosis, imbricatis, subinequalibus, nunc margine 
nunc dorso coloratis. Petala lutea, sessilia, oblonga, emarginata. . Stamina 
lutea, simplict serie hypogyna; filamenta subulata ; antheree continue 
(innate), obtuse, introrse, lateraliter dehiscentes. Ovaria 3-5, subrotunda, 
sericea ; ovulis cuique ovario sex, horizontalibus, lateri interior: ovari 
adherentibus, exarillatis: foramine obscuro hilo proximo. Styli subulatz, 
patentes. Stigma simplicissimum.  Carpella membranacea, 3-4-sperma. 
Semina immatura arillo lacero diaphano involuta, testd pallida, fragilr. 
This plate was in the hands of the colourer when the 
last number of the Botanical Magazine reached us, in 
which we find the same plant figured under the name 
of H. corifolia. Weare, however, enabled, from an examina- 
tion of authentic specimens in the Banksian Herbarium, 
to determine that the species is the H. pedunculata of 
Mr. Brown, and, consequently, that it is a native of Port 
Jackson, and not of Nepal, as is conjectured by our 
contemporary. 
This plant offers a beautiful proof of the truth of an 
observation first made, we believe, by Mr. Brown, that in 
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