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* HIBBERTIA dentata. 2. 
Toothed-leaved Hibbertia. . 
POLYANDRIA. 7RIG YNIA. 
Nat. ord. Macnourx. Jussieu gen. 280. Div. Genera Magnoliis af- 
finia. MeL EZ : alte bef 
Ditventace®., Decand. syst, nat. 1.395. Tribus, 2%, 
Dillenea. rates} 
HIBBERTTIA. Foliola calycina 5 persistentia. Pet. 5. Stam. inde- 
finita, libera, inter se subsequalia; anth. ovales aut oblong terminales ; 
germ. 1-15, spits 2-5; styli filiformes, divergentes*aut incurvi; capsule 
membranacez dehiscentes, ‘szepius 1-2-sperme; rariis polyspermez; seme. 
exarillata. . 
Suffrulices ramost sepius erecti, rariis procumbentes aut volubiles ; folia 
alterna, subcoriacea, integra aut dentata, brevissimé petiolata. Flores flavi 
terminales solitarit subsessiles aut pedunculati,, Decand. loc. cit. 425. 
Div. IT. Germinibus 1-8 glabris.-- ; 
H. dentata, foliis oblongis acuminatis glabris aristulato-serrati 
dunculatis trigynis, caule volubili, Decand. l. c. 426. 
Hibbertia dentata. Brown ined. | 
(@.) pedicellis glabris. ish 
Caules sarmentosi teretes glabri; fol. petiolata oblonga acuminata,. serra- 
turis exsertis aristulatis distantibus hinc indé dentata, coriacea, ada Juniora 
subths viz ac ne vie pilosa; pedunculi 1-flori folio breviores hispidi deflext ; 
bractez ecu Be membranacee ; flores paulo munores quam in H. 
‘volubili; foliola calycina in acumen aristatum desinentia extus villosula; pet. 
obovata calyce paulo longiora; stam. calyce breviora; germ. 3-glabra; styli 
Jiliformes, divergentes acuti. Var. 8 non differt nist foltis magis serratis, pe- 
dicellis calycibusque glabris aut vix pilosis. Dec. 1. ©. Pedunc. solitarius, 
‘pilosus, primo terminalis, indé axillaris; bractee parve scabro-ciliate. Cal. 
‘rotatus, subduplo brevior corolla, foliolis cordato-ellipticis mucronatis sub- 
S, ‘floribus pe- 
-inequalibus. Cor. rosaceo-rotata, lutea, diametro subbiuncialt, petalis ob- 
_longo-obcordatis. Stam, 2plo _ breviora calyce : anth. continuo-terminales, 
compresso-ovales, recurvate, secundim marginem dchiscentes. Germ’. alba, 
ovata, stylo caudato-continuo aquante stimina, puncto stigmatoso. simplici. 
Folia subovato-v. elongato-oblonga, 2-3-uncialia ciliata mucronata, dentata 
dentibus inequaliter distantibus aliquibus mucronato-productis, subtus pilis 
brevibus antrorsum aduncis scabro-villosa; petiolus villosus, pluriés brevior 
lamina, subalatus, canaliculatus. ' : c 
Of the Dilleniacew, the ordinal head under which we 
find the present genus in the volume by which the arduous 
enterprize of arranging and describing the members of the 
vegetable creation according to affinity has just been opened, 
we find no species was known in the time of Gasper Bauhin, 
probably not even in that of Tournefort; Linnzeus was ac- 
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