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HOVEA linearis. 
Linear-leaved Hovea. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Corolla irre- 
gularis, papilionacea, Legumen uniloculare bivalve.—P APILIONACEX. 
Brown in append. to Flind. voy. 2. 
HOVEA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 280. 
H. linearis, foliis linearibus subtüs pilosiusculis, leguminibus glabris. Brown 
in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 275. . 
Poiretia linearis. Smith in trans. linn. soc. 9. 304. 
Frutex pube fulvo-fuscá villosus: rami teretes graciles stricti elastici sub- 
flexuosi laxits foliosi. Fol. 3-plo intervallis longiora, sparsa, patentissima, 
lanceolato-linearia, rugulis subtilibus utrinque immerse reticulata, subtàs 
appresse pilosiuscula, margine depressa, recurvo-apiculata, nervo medio 
simplici subtùs pube brevi ferrugineá densá appressá vestito: petiolus fuscus 
teres brevissimus, stipulä parvulá subulatá utrinque stipatus. Flores $ uncie 
subadequantes, lilacino-pallentes, inodori; pedunculi (an veriùs pedicelli in 
pedunculo obsoleto? basi enim coherent) per ramos ramulosque racemos? dis- 
positi, axillares, param longiores petiolis, sepids aggregate bini? —quaterni? 
rariùs solitarii, 1-flori, fusco-hirsuti, bracteà minutá singulorum basi ap- 
pressi. Cal. more pedunculorum pubescens, bracteolis 2 oppositis calyculatim 
subtensus, nutans, bis ferme brevior vezillo, bilabiatus, labiis eguilomgis, 
summo latissime cuneato truncato-retuso, lateribus deflexis, dorso carinato, 
cornubus extremis acutis, imo ad } usque 4-fido segmentis equalibus erectis 
acuminatis. Vex. arrectum, obluto-v. subreniformi-ovatum, retusum, basi 
lamine areolá luted margine radiata extús halone purpureo circumdatá, 
ungue triplo breviore lineari-oblongo: ale porrecte vexillo à margine interiore 
transverse opposite oblonge apice rotundate, ungue brevi simplici: carina 
inclusa paulò exsuperans calcem, obtusa, compresso-ventricosa, apice saturate 
violacea, petalis à margine inferiore conniventibus, unguibus obsolete dicruri- 
bus crure altero brevissimo rotundato, altero angusto duplo breviore lamind. 
Fil. monadelphum breviter aqualitörgue 10-fidum, fissurd dorsali omnind 
divisum: anth. pallid? lutew, lineari-oblonge, erecto-incumbentes. Germ. 
oblongum, viride, glabrum; stylus pluriés longior, albus, glaber, filiformis, 
adscendens capitello stigmatoso minuto concolori pruinoso terminatus. 
Still an extremely rare greenhouse shrub, although in- 
troduced from New South Wales by Mr. George Hibbert, 
as far back as the year 1796. It is one of the two species 
enumerated in the Hortus Kewensis; but has never been re- 
presented by any published figure. Four species of this genus 
are now cultivated in our gardens. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col- 
ville in the King's Road, Chelsea, where the plant is in 
