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P L A T E CCCCLXXII.
H I B B E R T I A CRENATA.
Scolloped-leaved Hibbertia.
CLASS XIII. ORDER X.
POLYANDRIA DECAGYNIA. Many Chives. Ten Pointals.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
C A L Y X 5-phylIus. Pétala 5. Stamina mimerosa,
receptáculo inserta. Germina quinqué
vel decern, desinentia in stylis, oligosperma.
E M P A L E M E N T 5-leaved. Five petals. Chives
numerous, inserted into the' receptacle.
Seed-buds 5 or 10, terminating in shafts,
few-seeded.
H I B E E K T I A foliis crenatis, sub-cordatis : floribus
solitariis, axillaribus, luteis, patentibus.
Caulis fruticosus: ramis patentibus, numerosis,
purpuréis.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
H I B B E R T I A with scolloped leaves nearly heartshaped,
Flowers grow singly from the insertion
of the leaves, are of a yellow colour,
and spreading. Stem shrubby. Branches
spreading, numerous, and purple.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
] , The empalement,
2. A petal,
3. Chives and pointals,
4. Seed-buds and pointals,
5. A seed-bud and pointai, magnified.
T H I S is an addition to the genus Hibbertia, but differs from the H, volubilis in having ten pointals
instead of five; and will most likely, when more of the genus are in cultivation with us, form a
section under the title of decagynia, and the original of the genus as pentagynia : a mode frequently
adopted, to prevent that confusion too often attending the formation of new genera. Under this
arrangement the genus of Hibbertia will be considerably enlarged, and certainly no genus more
deserves it than that which bears the name of such a liberal promoter of botanic science.
Our figure represents the entire plant, from the nursery of Messrs, Colville, where it was first raised
from seeds received from New South Wales.
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