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HoVEA PANNOSA. RuSTY HoVEA. 



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C/«ss anrf Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Legumixos.e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. bilabiatus, labio super, semibifido, lato, retuso, inf. 

 tripartite Carina obtusa. Stam. omnia connexa, aut 

 deciino superne plus minus libero. Legumen sessile, sub- 

 rotundum, ventricosum, disperrnum. Semina strophiolata. 

 DC. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 



Hovea* pannosa ; foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis glabris 

 nitidis subtus ramis leguminibusque ferrugineo - to- 

 mentosis. 



Hovea pannosa. Cunningham MSS. apud Hort. Reg. Kew. 



Descr. Stem erect, rigid, branched, branches clothed 

 with a dense, ferruginous tomentum. Leaves linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, coriaceous, entire, glabrous, dark green and smooth 

 above, with a depressed midrib, below clothed with a dense 

 rusty-coloured down, and marked with a prominent midrib. 

 At the base is a short, downy, petiole; at the point a small 

 tuft of hairs. Stipules linear, very downy. Flowers pro- 

 duced in the axils of the leaves, two or three from each of 

 the upper leaves, on downy, short stalks, with a lmear- 

 subulate bractea at their base. Calyx very downy, and 

 rusty-coloured, two-lipped; upper lip arched, obtuse, bifid, 

 lower of three linear segments. Standard of the corolla 

 broad, purple, with a broad, obcordate, pale spot just above 



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* Named by Mr. Brown, in compliment to A. P. Hove, a Polish Botanist. 

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