A 





* 



1524 



HOVEA* chorozemaefdlia 



Chorozema-leaved Hovea. 



MONADELPHIA, or DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminos.e. Trib. Loteee De Cand. {Introduction to the 

 ural system of Botany, p. 86.) 

 HOVEA.— Supra, vol. 4. fol. 280. 



H. chorozemafolia ; foliis laneeolato-oblongis sinuato-spinosis mucronatis 

 coriaceis glabris, stipulis spinescentibus, calycibus villosis. — De Cand. 

 prodr. 2. 116. 



Plagiolobium chorizemaefolium. Sweet, fl. australas. t. 2. 



Plag. ilicifolium. Ejusdem loci. 



Frutex erectus, densus, sempervirens . Rami murini,pubescentes. Folia 



ovata, v. oblonga, sinuato-spinosa, rigida, utrinque glabra, subtus reticulata. 



Racemi 2-4-flori, villosi, foliis breviores. Flores intense cyanei. Calycis 



labium suprernum indivisum. 



King George's Sound, in New Holland, that country 

 from which so many noble Banksias, Dryandras, and other 

 fine evergreen plants, have been introduced, and which, 

 although in most places too sterile for the purposes of man, 

 seems to be " a paradise of pleasant flowers," is the native 

 spot of this charming shrub. It flourishes in that frostless 

 country among picturesque hills, described by Mr. Nind as 

 " studded and capped by immense blocks of granite, and 

 strewed with a profusion of beautiful shrubs, among which 

 the splendid Banksiae grow to a large size, while Kingia 

 and Xanthorhaea, or the Grass-tree, are abundant." 



Our drawing was made in April last from a plant in the 

 possession of Mr. Lowe, which was exhibited at one of the 

 meetings of the Horticultural Society. It is a very healthy 

 greenhouse shrub, scarcely less remarkable for the beauty 

 of its foliage than for the rich, and for New Holland plants 

 very unusual, colour of its blossoms. 



Young cuttings will strike in sand under a bell-glass. 



J. L. 



* See fol. 1423 



