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HÓVEA* purpúrea. 
Purple Hovea. 
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MONADELPHIA, or DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Ltcuminosz. Trib. Lotee De C. (Introduction to the 
natural system of Botany, p. 86.) 
HOVEA.—Supra, vol. 4. p. 280. 
H. purpurea ; foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis mucronulatis suprà glabris subtüs 
tomentosis, pedicellis petiolo brevioribus geminis. 
H. purpurea. Sweets Flora australasica, no. 13. 
Frutex ramosus, dumosus, ramis crassiusculis, teretibus v. leviter angu- 
latis, tomentosis. Folia lineari-oblonga, obtusa, apice mucronulata v. cal- 
losa, suprà atroviridia, glabra, infrà densó nunc ferrugineo-tomentosa ; in 
spontaneis vir reticulata. Stipule minime, subulate, tomentose. Flores 
gemini, axillares, pedicellis. petiolo brevioribus, tribracteatis ; _bracteolis 
ovatis, obtusis, appressis, ferrugineo-tomentosis : duabus superioribus calyci 
Seré equalibus, inferiore minore et magis remotá. Calyx dense tomentosus, 
labio superiore truncato emarginato, inferiore tridentato. Flores purpurei. 
Vexillum erectum, subrotundo-ovatum, emarginatum, basi maculá pallidá 
viridi. Stamina monadelpha. 
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A New Holland plant, recently introduced into our 
Gardens. Our drawing was made in March last, at the 
Nursery of Messrs. Low and Co. of Clapton, lately Messrs. 
Mackay and Co. 
It is a greenhouse shrub of much beauty, flowering 
freely, and having a neat, healthy foliage. In the summer 
it will grow in the open air; but it must be removed back 
into the greenhouse upon the approach of frost. 
* Named in compliment to Mr. Anthony Pantaleon Hove, a Polish 
gentleman, by whom many rare plants, from the east of Europe and west of 
Asia, have been introduced to our Gardens. 
