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* HARDENBERGIA digitata. 
Finger-leaved Hardenbergia. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Fasace#, or LEGUMINOSÆ ; $ PuaseEoLEA, Bentham. 
HARDENBERGIA. Benth. Enum. pl. Hugel. p. 40. Calyx campa- 
nulatus, breviter 5-dentatus, subbilabiatus. Corolle vexillum orbiculatum, 
subintegrum, basi angustatum, exappendiculatum, vix unguiculatum, alis lon- 
gius. Ale obliqué obovato-oblongee. Carina alis ultra medium adherens, . 
et iis brevior, incurva, obtusa. Stamina distincté diadelpha; filamento vex- 
illari basi recto inarticulato. Ovarium pluriovulatum. Stylus brevis, ad- 
scendens, subulatus. Stigma capitatum subpenicillatum. Legumen lineare, 
compressum, intüs isthmis cellulosis submultiloculare. Semina strophiolata. 
—— Frutices volubiles, Australasici, seepiús glabri. Folia pinnatim trifolio- 
lata, vel unifoliolata ; foliolis stipellatis. Stipulee ef bractez minute. Pe- 
dunculi axillares, multiffori. Pedicelli ebracteolati. Calyces glabri. Corolle 
cerulee aut violacez. Bentham de Legum. gen. p. 124. 
H. digitata ; foliis digitatis, foliolis ovato-oblongis obtusis terminali longiüs 
petiolato, stipulis angusté triangularibus, racemis pedunculatis multi- 
floris foliis longioribus, vexillo oblato acuto. Bot. Reg. 1840. mise. 
no. 142. 
H. macrophylle (Kennedy ? macrophylle, supra t. 1862.); similis, sed 
foliis digitatis et floribus duplo minoribus diversa. 
A new Swan River climber, raised by Mr. Toward in the 
garden of H. R. H. the Duchess of Gloucester, at Bagshot. 
It is clearly distinguished from all the previously discovered 
species of the genus, by its leaflets growing in fives, not in 
threes. Its flowers too are smaller than in any of the other 
species. 
Mr. Toward informs nie that “its fine growth and profuse 
blossoms render it a very valuable greenhouse climber, fully 
^ * Named by Mr. Bentham after the Countess of Hardenberg, a noble 
Austrian lady, sister to Baron Hugel, and in whose garden the plants col- 
lected by her brother in his travels, were carefully nursed until his return. 
