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HOVEA LANCEOLATA. L.ANCE-LEAVED 

 HOVEA. 



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Clafs and Order. 



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DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 



Generic Characler. 



Cat. bilabiatus : labio fuperiore femibifido retufo. Start, omnia 

 connexa. Carina obtufa. Legitm. feffile, fubrotundum, ventri- 

 cofum, difpermum. Sent, ftrophiolata. Brown in Hort. Kew. 

 Poiretia. Smith in Linn. I'ranf. vol. 9. p. 304. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 



HOVEA lanceolata ; ramis vimineis, foliis lanceolatis mucro- 



natis fubtus pubefcentibus, floribus axillaribus geminis. 

 POIRETIA diverfifolia. hhrb. Bank/.? 



Dr. Smith, in the 9th volume of the TranfaBions of the 

 Linnean Society, dedicated this genus to M. Poiret, " the 

 able continuator of the botanical part of the French Encyclo- 

 pedic, fince it was given up by M. Lamarck." But M. Ven- 

 tenat had, fome time prior to this, eftablifhed another genus in 

 honour of the fame Botanift ; on which account Mr. Brown, 

 yielding to right of priority, thought fit to apply a new name to this 

 genus, which he has dedicated to Anton. Pantaleon Hove, 

 a Polifh naturalift, author of a manufcript journal to Guzerat, 

 in the years 1787 and 1788, preferved in the Bankhan library. 



We regret, however, that Mr. Brown did not rather pre- 

 ferve the name of Poiretia; becaufe Ventenat's genus is 

 little known, and has not, we believe, been taken up by any 

 other author, and being taken out of one long-eftablilhed, 

 would probably, on that account, be lefs agreeable to M. 

 Poiret himfelf. But as the Hortus Kewenfis will be regarded 

 as the moll authentic fource for the nomenclature of the plants, 



cultivated 



