blossom about February and March. We have never seen 
any other than young small samples. They are always 
much fuller of flowers than any we have seen of Hovea 
Celsi treated of in a preceding article of the present publi- 
cation. 
A shrub, furred with a brownish tawny pile: branches 
round slender straight stiffish elastic slightly flexuose, wid- 
ishly leaved. Leaves three times the length of the intervals, 
scattered, wide-spread, lanceolately linear, minutely wrinkled 
or netwisely marked with fine insunk lines, underneath 
slightly and close-pressedly hairy, depressed at the edge, 
pointed and recurved at the top, midrib simple covered un- 
derneath by a short rust-coloured dense flat-pressed pile: 
petiole brown, round, very short, furnished on each side 
with a small subulate stipule. Flowers about a quarter of 
an inch long, pale blueish lilae, without scent; peduncles 
(or rather perhaps pedicles upon an obsoletely shortened 
peduncle? for they cohere at the bottom) racemosely dis- 
posed upon the main and partial branches, axillary, but 
little longer than the petioles, generally aggregated by 
pairs? or fours?, not often solitary, oneflowered, furred, 
a minute close-pressed bracte at the foot of each. Calyx 
furred in the same way as the peduncles, calyculately sub- 
tended by two opposite bracteoles, nodding, almost twice 
shorter than the vexillum; dips of one length; uppermost very 
broadly cuneate, truncately retuse, bent down at the sides, 
keeled at the back, with two pointed corners at the extre- 
mities; lowermost 4-cleft to about one third of its depth with 
upright equal taper-pointed segments. Vexillum oblately 
or subreniformly ovate, retuse, at the base of the blade or 
broad part marked with a yellow radiately edged spot sur- 
rounded with a purple halo; unguis three times shorter 
linearly oblong: ale pointing straight forwards with their 
upper edges opposite to the vexillum, round-pointed; 
unguis short, simple; carina enclosed, exceeding the calyx 
but little, obtuse, compressedly ventricose, of a deep violet 
colour at the end, petals meeting at the lower edge; un- 
gues obsoletely 2-pronged, one prong extremely short and 
rounded, the other narrow and twice shorter than the 
blade. Filament monadelphous, shallowly and equally 
10-cleft, divided all the way down at the back: anthers 
pale yellow, linearly oblong, from upright lying across the 
points of the filament. Germen oblong, green, smooth; 
style several times longer, white, smooth, filiform, ascend- 
ing, terminated by a minute frosted stigmatose head. 
