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HOVEA Ceki, 



Ceis^s Hovea. 



DIADELPHIA BECANDRIA, 



NaL ord, Leguminos^. Jnssieu gen, 345. Div. V* Cor. irregularis, 

 papilionacea. Legumen uniloculare bivalve. 



HOVEA. CaL bilabiatus: labio superiore semibifido retuso. Strnth 

 omnia connexa. Carina obtusa. Legtanen sessile subrotundum ventricosum 

 dispermum, Semina strophiolata. Brown in Hort* Kew. ed* 2. 4^, 275# 



H. 



usculis. Bonpland nau. 8c 



bract;eisq 



obtufiifly 



Frutex altitudinem ^-Q-pedalem in hortis acquirem; caule crassitudine 

 digiti minoris^ prima circa medium in ramos se dividente, cortice cinere(hfusc6 

 subrimoso: rami plurimiy pluries divisiy superne Jlexi^ plus miniis villosL 

 Fol. coriaceo-rigentia^ sparsa^ laxa^ erecto-pateniia^ rkoinbeo-v. ventricoso* 

 lanceolata^ l-^-uncialia tatitudine SAO-Iineariy reticulatO'-venosaf utrinque ob* 

 tusata^ apiculo mutico terminatay $ubtu$ varicoso'nervosa villosague villis in 

 junioribus fpr^sertim ad costam mediam ) Juscescentibus ; petiolus teres^ vil^ 

 losus^ pluries brevior l-amina. Pedunculi numerosi^ in ramts racemose digestif 

 axiUaresy solitarii, laxe pauci-pluri {^-^'i) -Jioriy erecti^ villosip ieretes^ Jiisci^ 

 pluries longiores petiolisj brevtores Jbliis : bracteolse 6in^r appress€e opposito^ 

 laterales ad basin cujusque floris. Fiores violaceo-cyaneif venon^ inodori^ 

 longitudine vix semiunciates^ subnutantes: cal. y brexnor vexillo^ ad §■ drckhr 

 usque i^-Jidus^ fuscescens^ subsericeo^illosus, bilabiatus; labio superiore 

 longiore latissime cuneato u. turbinato^ margine sumtno rotundato entarginaturA 

 media brevi^ dorso obtuse carinato; labio inferiore tridentato aquali recto 

 acuto. Cor. vex. erectum^ patens^ ^labrum^ obcordato-rotundum, valdi majus 

 alis et carina^ summo margine inctso-emarginatum^ macule amnliuscula sub'- 

 didyma alba ad basin^ dorso carinato-plicatum ; viogncbrevi: a\se spathulalo^ 

 oUongtB^ purpureo'violacece^ carinam minorem complectentes et nnh cum e& 

 a$$urgentesj areolant albam vexilli cui accum/mnt altitudine aquantes, apice 

 rotundala: caxina, obtusay compressay ^ petalis 2 partim coh^erentibuSy alapim 

 concoloribusy breve unguicnialis. Stara. monadelpha cum Jissurd dorsali (Vn 

 interdum diadelpkafj ceetertim breviUs divisa, aqualia: anth, breves^ erectce^ 

 lutescenteSy polfine grumoso* Germ, pediceUatunty ovalcy^ breve^ conmressum^ 

 diaphdnuMy albicans ^ glabrumy dispermum; stylus pluries longior iUo subu-^ 

 lato^liformis, giaber, infr^ compressus: stigma capitellum minutum pu^ 

 berulum. 



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Hovea, as far as the genus is yet known, is confined to 

 New Holland. Four species have been recorded, two in 

 the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, one in Curtis*s 

 Magazine, and the present in the work we have quoted. 

 The last was introduced into France by the naturalists of 



the celebrated French expedition to New Holland, under 



