T a r. f¡. ¡ r o s t r a t a ; ramis brevibus prostratis, fo liis b r e v io r ib u s .-H . p r o s ta ta , Hook. Pourn. Hot. i
2 4 6 , 11. 4 1 3 . (Gunn, 6 4 2 .)
Ta r. 7 . g l a t r a t a ; p r o s ta ta , foliis parvis glabris, ramulis brevissimis. (Gunn, 1 0 2 3 )
0 a o L j “ “ '“'ft' ft'" - '*• tto o u g h o u t th e C o lo u y ; ascen d in g to
2 - 3 0 0 0 feet, L aw ren c e, Gunn, etc. Tar. 7 . L ak e S t. Clair, G » « » . _ { r i . Oct. N o v .) (v v )
D ist b ib . N ew South W a le s and S outh-eastern Austraba.
An erect shrub, from 6 -1 8 iuehes high, fascieulatel, b r a u e h e d .-A -m e fa erect, very leafv, slender; aU parts
perfectly glabrons. or more or leas covered with long white sflky hairs, lem e s in tufts, vm , n a n w . J - 1 inch
long, spreadmg a M e cmved, thick, margins not revolnte, greoved doivn the middle. Flower, large, * inch in
d ameter. SepaU emptical-ovafe, mucronate. FeiuU ohcordate. Stanwn, about twelve, united in bmidles ailernating
L seen' ‘ft« '- S l* '-» » * Ovule, two. F r ?
This entirely agrees with De Oandofle’s character o f H . faseiculata. Dr., and ndth JL . Brown’s specimens in
the British Musemn, and appears the same as Sieber's H . cauplwrosna, which has rather smaller flowers, hut the
same leaves and mmber o f parts. Lehmann (Plant. Preiss. ii. 2 36) mentions this as a native o f York (Western
A u .ti.h a ); do not however find it amongst Drnmmond's plants, bnt there is an allied species, with revolnte marmns
to the leaves, 4-„m that count,,-. The var. prostrata is the common Tasmanian form i it was era-oneonsly eha-
raetermed ongmafly as havmg a solitaiy carpel; it varies from glabrous to silk ,. I have gathered exactly inter-
mediate forms on the sandy flats opposite Hobaidon.
3 . H i b b e r t i a w g a t a (Br. iu DC . Sy st. i. 4 1 8 ) ; glabra, erecta, stricta, ramis tenuibus virgatis
ultim is puberubs, foh is 111 ramubs laterabbus brevissimis sparsis fasciculatis altem isv e an gu ste linearibus
sensim dilatatis obtusis plauis sulcatis, floribus ramis subsessffibus axiUisve foborum sessilibus bracteis ci
b atis ovato-rotuudatis acumiuatis, sepalis ob ovato-oblongis retusis acutis mucronatisve, petalis obeordatis
stamimbus su b -1 0 m phalanges 3 obscure approximatis, ovariis 3 glaberrimis, ovulis 2 ,— D C P r o d r i 7 4 '
[Gnnn, 1 9 4 0 .) ' '
H.vb. On th e road from Georgetown to Currie's Eiver, in sandy soil, Gunn.— m . Oct.)
D i s t r i b . S outh-eastern Australia.
An erect, twiggy, sparingly leaiy shrub, a span h ig h .-D r a a c t o very slender, slightly downy at the tins
Leave, alternate, or fascicled on abbreviated laterMi branchlets. strict, -J -l inch long, narrow and slender g ro o v 4
above; margms not reemved, blunt. Flower, axfllaiy, or sessile on very short !ea^ lateral branchlets. similar- to
those o f H. faspieuUta, hut stamens fewer, about ten, approximated in three (not two, as De Candolle says) bmidlés
- T h i s IS allied tosome Sydney and West Anstralian speeies, but is quite distinct, and most likely confined to Sonth-
eastem Austraha and the opposite shores o f Tasmania, for D e Candolle’s locality of Port Jackson is probably-erroneous;
Brown’s specmens in the British Museum are marked as coming from the sonth coast o f New Ttollm.l
4 . H ib b e r t i a a r ie a e f o lia (H o ok , f i l .) ; glabra, p r o s ta ta , humifusa, ramulis gracilibus asceudent.bus
ciliatis puberuhsve, fohis (parvis) sparsis acieularibus coriaceis rigidis in petiolum brevem angustatis obtusis
margimbus r evolutis Imvibus v , sparse m inute tuberculatis su p em e enerviis costa inferno valida floribus ter
nmahbus sessflibus, bracteis parvis subulatis cihatis, sepalis ob loiigo-obovatis obtusis acutis L mucronatis
g lab n s, petahs obeordatis, stamimbus 1 0 in phalanges 3 obscure approximatis, carpellis 3 viUosis 4-ovulatis
[Gunn, 1 0 2 2 .) (T a b . I I I .)
H a b . Common on th e serpentine formation. Asbestos H ills ; also at Launeeston and Georgetown
e » » s .— (FI. Oct. N o v .) *
E d i t of H . precumiem, but with smaller, more rigid and heath-like leaves, and with very different ovaries
-P r o s tr a te , with rarely creet branches; the latter slender, pubescent or ciliated at the tips, brown. Leave,
è inch long vciy nm-row, quite linear. Uimt, convex above, deeply grooved below from the recurved margins and
strong midrib ; surface quite smooth, or with a few scattered raised points. Flower, terminal, i -A i„eh d i .n .. ,, .
ve iy small. Sepal, coriaceons. Stamins ten. Anther, with the connective traversed by six canals, fail of
large, long, free, hyaline cells, each containing a small bundle o f raphides. Ovaries three, ve iy villous. Ovules four
t o * two or three, obovate or obpyriform; testa in immature seeds brittle, pale brmvu. AriUus in-egidarij cap-
shaped, not t o m ,-T h e structure o f the couneetive o f the anther in this (and probably other species o f the genns)
ts very cimons. In the habit, small braets, few stamens, small foliage, and occasionally scabrid scattered points
on its surface, this plant closely approaches Fleuramlru ripuria, Br. It is also vciy closely allied to II. pedunculata
Br., of Sydriey, bat tbe flowers are sessile. II. erieufolia, Br. MSS. in Mus. Brit., appears to be the same as H f u i
a c a fe fa .-P iA T B III. Fig. 1 and 2, leaves ; 3. back, and 4, front view o f flower ; 5, stamens ; 6, transverse section
of anther, showing the canals in the connective; 7, cells with raphides, 8, pollen; 9, ovarin; 10 and 11 see-
tions o f carpels ; 12, an ovule ; 13 and 14, seeds -.— all magnified.
N o t e . S iU e r tia dentuta, a large-leaved Port Jackson species, is stated p C . Syst. i. 427) to be a native of
D Entrecasteaux Channel,— no doubt through some mistake.
Gen. I I . P L E U R A N D R A , L a b .
Omnia I lib le r ü æ , sed stamimbus unilateralibus.
This genus is not sufficiently distinct from Hibbertia (as at present constituted) to render its adoption auythinsi
but a matter o f convenience. The distribution o f tbe stamens o f Hibbertia into bundles is I'eiy irregular - one buncUe
IS sometimes reduced to a single slameu only, whence the cori-esponding side o t the flower is almost deprived o f stamens,
and from this modiflcation the transition to Fleuraudra is evident. De Candolle's sections ot the venus are
neither natural nor tenable on other gi-onnds, and it is probable that the nmnber o f orales affords the best primary
sections. The stamens are either free or united into a bundle by the bases o f their filaments in the same species, and
even variety; and the tribe Algssoidew, cliai-acterized by the stellate pubescence, appears to be tendered nngatoiy by F
ovula, which has sometimes only simple and at other times steflate hairs ; whence I suspect that different state's of it
are desenhed under different names in the sections Algxwidew and HUberlianw. The comiective o f the anthers presents
the same cimoiis canals, charged with veiy long fiisifoi-m cells, that Hibbertia ericwfoUa does; the ariflns is, as in
that plant, formed from the mici-opylc, and the emhyo, which is extremely minute, is enelosed ii! a coarsely gi-mular
albiunen. (Named from nXsvpa, a side, and avi)p, in allusion to tbe luiilateral stamens.)
I . Pleurandra acicularis (Lab. N o v . HoU. ii. 6 . t. 1 4 4 ) ; suffruticnlus rigidiis glaberrimus, ramis
depressis erectisve, ramulis sulcatis gracilibus, foliis sparsis liiieari-subulatis aristatis p ungentibus enerviis
ob marginem arctissime revolutum dorso 2 -sulcatis p e tio lo brevissimo callo i-amuli ciliato inserto rarissime
sparse scaberulis setulosisve, pecluuculis 1 -floris axillaribus arcuatis foliis longioribus, sepalis oblongis
acutis mucronatisve glabris pubcrulisve, stamimbus 5 - 8 , ovariis 1 - 2 tomentosis 2 -ovu latis.— D(7. S y st. i.
4 2 1 , P r o d r . i. 1 7 3 ; L o n d . J o um . B o t. ii. 4 0 2 . [Gunn, 6 4 1 .)
H a b . Sandy land, Georgetown ; Plinders’ Island ; sea-coast east o f P o r t Dalrymple, Gunn.— (P i. De c .)
D i s t r i b . South-eastern Australia and N ew South Wales.
A small, rigid, wiiy, OyatJiodes-Eke plant, witli (in Tasmanian specimens) stout, woody, gnarled stem, and
slender, twiggj?, grooved branches, 2 - 1 0 indies high, and often depressed.— Zmye« small, scattered, spreading,
harsh, pungent, almost sessile, on a little ciliated protuberance of tbe branch; quite smooth, or with a few scattered
tubercles on the upper convex sui-face ; imder surface marked with two parallel fiu-rows, indicating the mar-
^ gins to be rcvolute and appressed. Flowers ou slender, cma-ed peduncles, inch long (much shorter in specimens
from South-eastern Australia), yellow, ^ inch diameter, Sepals contracted aud swollen at the very base. Petals
obcordatc. Ovaries one or two, very smaU, with long styles. Seeds (in Australian spechneus) two," w ith a brown
testa and dceply-lobed membranous aril.