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HOVEA longifolia. 
Long-leaved Hovea. 
— aaa 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Corolla irregu- 
laris, papilionacea, Legumen uniloculare bivalve. 
HOVEA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 280. 
H. longifolia, foliis elongato-linearibus: subtüs venosis leguminibusque 
tomentosis. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed.2. 4. 275. 
Frutex erectus, rubigineo-villosus; rami sparsi, subverticillato-approxi- 
mati, simplices, teretes, foliosi. Fol. rigentia, laxius sparsa, interdum per 
paria vel fermé vel omninó opposita, decussato-divaricata modóve deflexa, 
petiolata, angusta, lineari-elongata, 2-3-uncialia? latitudine bilineari? cum 
acumine obtuso subtüs mucronato, reticulato-venosa, supra fusco-virentia 
glaberrima lined mediá depressá, margine deflexa, subtüs rufescenti-villasa 
cum costá prominente: petiolus brevis (lineam longus) teres tomentosus. 
Flores inodori, violaceo-albicantes, parvi (2 lineas longi), superné in ramis 
paniculati; panicule foliose elongate; racemuli compositi foliosi subtenso 
folio triplo breviores v. magis, floribus 2 pedicellatis supra basin pedunculi 
positis: pedicelli teretes patentes villosi, bracteà lineari breviore appressá 
subtensi, calyce parüm longiores. Cal. cinereus, tomentosus, bilabiato-cam- 
panulatus, intus glaber, medio feré tenis A-fidus, basi bracteolis 2 oppositis 
auriculatus, labio superiore recto lato retuso, inferiore trifido segmentis acu- 
minatis, lateralibus parallelis patulis, medio subulato deflexo. Vexilli 
lamina hu lade rat arrecto-reflexa, calyci subequilonga, emar- 
ginato-fissa, albicans radiis violaceis sensim evanescentibus picta, cum areolä 
luteo-virenti ad basin; unguis brevis cuneato-attenuatus canaliculatus, viri- 
dis: ale recte, porrecte, à latere superiore imbricato-conniventes, oblonga, 
obtuse, pallidiores, ungue. tenuissimo simplici: carina inclusa, duplo fere 
brevior, falcato-assurgens, ventricosa, attenuata, obtusa, supra intense vio- 
lacea. Fil. monadelphum, medio feré tenús 10-fidum, per dorsum fis- 
sum: anth. sordido-lutescentes, erecte, «equales, lineari-oblonge, polline 
grumoso. Germ. ovato-oblongum, villosum, viride, sessile: stylus rostrato- 
continuus, glaber, adscendens, setaceo-attenuatum: stigma apex obtusum sub- 
pruinosum. 
We are not aware of any published figure of this species. 
It was first observed by Mr. Brown in New South Wales, 
and introduced in 1805. The annexed drawing was made 
at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, where 
the plant flowers in the greenhouse about March. 
An upright reddishly furred shrub; branches scattered, 
nearing each other almost in whorls, simple, round, leafy. 
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