Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

TAB. 6531.
WORMIA BUEBIDüEI.
Native of Borneo.
Nat. Ord. DILLENIACE^.•Tribe DiLLKNie^.
Genus WOBMIA, Bottb. ; [Bentk. et Hook. f. Gen. PL vol. i. p. 13.)
WOBMIA Burbidgei s frutex, foliis late ellipticis in petiolum compresiio-alatum
amplexicaulem decurrentibua oblongis obtusis mtegerrimis v. Babsinuatis
crusse coriaceis nervosis, costa ncrvisque utrinque 18-20 patentabas sub tus
ciuasis, pedunculis axillaribus et terminalibus cyraoso-paucifloris floribns
bi-fvitev pedicellatis amplis anreis 3-poU. diam., Bepalis orbicolatis concavis
ina'qualibus, petalis obovato-oblongis disco concavis marginibus late sub-
crispato-nnäulatis, staminibus albidis interioribus longioribus extimis brevibas
setitbrmibus imperfectis, carpellis ad 7 stylis filiibnnibus.
The genus Wormia, a near ally of the familiar Hibbertias
of our greenhouses, consists of about ten species of shrubs
or trees with usually very handsome flowers and foliage,
which extend from tropical Australia through the Malay
Islands and Southern India to the Seychelles. Though
known in Indian Botanic Gardens, the present is the only
one that to our knowledge has ever flowered in Europe. It
is closely allied to Tf\ subsessilis of Miquel, figured in the
Annals of the Leyden Botanical Museum (vol. i. p. 315,
Tab. IX.), but that has larger toothed leaves, flowers five
inches in diameter, and very broadly obovate petals without
the hollow disk and broad crenate margins of this. Coming
from the same country, I was at first disposed to regard
these species as identical, but as the dried specimens from
Banka, sent from the Leyden Museum to Kew Herbarium,
and others gathered in Borneo confirm the accuracy of
Miquel's plate, whicli is, moreover, copied from a drawing
taken from life, I am compelled to keep them distinct.
W. Burbidgei is a native of Northern Borneo, where it
was discovered by the intelligent and successful collector
whose name it bears when exploring the Bornean forests
DEC'EMBEK 1ST, 1880.