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* HARDENBERGIA digitata. 

 Finger-leaved Hardenbergia. 



DIADELPHIA DECANBBIA. 



Nat. ord. Fabace.^, or Leguminos^ ; § Phaseole^, Bentham. 



HARDENBERGIA. Benth. Emm. pi. Hugel. p. 40. Calyx campa- 

 nulatus, breviter 5-dentatus, subbilabiatus. Corolla vexillum orbiculatum, 

 subintegrum, basi angustatum, exappendiculatum, vix unguiculatum, alls lon- 

 gius. AlcB oblique obovato-oblongae. Carina alis ultra medium adhserens, 

 et iis bre^dor, incurva, obtusa. Stamina distincte diadelpba ; filamento vex- 

 illari basi recto inarticulato. Ovarium pluriovulatum. Stylus brevis, ad- 

 scendens, subulatus. Stigma capitatum subpenicillatum. Legumen lineare, 

 compressum, intus isthmis cellulosis submultiloculare. Semina stropbiolata. 



Frutices volubiles, Australasici, ssepius glabri. Yolia pinna tiin trifolio- 



lata, vel unifoliolata ; foliolis stipellatis. Stipulse et bractese minutce. Pe- 

 dunculi axillares, imdtijlori. Pedicelli ebracteolati. Calyces glabri. CoroUee 

 ccerulece aut violacece. Bentham de Legum. gen. p. 124. 



H. digitata ,• foliis digitatis, foliolis ovato-oblongis obtusis terminali longiils 

 petiolato, stipulis anguste triangularibus, racemis pedunculatis multi- 

 floris foliis longioribus, vexillo oblato acuto. Bat. Reg. 1840. misc. 

 no. 142. 



H. macrophyUse (Kennedyse ? macropbyllse, 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 me 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. 



