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HOVEA* villdsa. 

 Shaggy Hovea. 



MONADELPHIA, on DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminos-e. Trib. Loteee D. C. {Introduction to the 

 natural system of Botany, p. 86.) 



HOVEA.— Supra, vol. 4. fol. 280. 



H. villosa ; foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis mucronulatis supra glabris reticu- 



Iatis subtus ramisque villosissimis, pedicellis petiolo brevioribus geminis 



calycibusque villosis. 

 H. purpurese similis. Diversa vide tur foliis majoribus, marginibus magis 



parallelis, et foliorum pagind inferiore, ramis, pedicellis, calycibusque 



pilis longissimis intricatis instructis. 



This pretty species of Hovea has been sent us from the 

 Nursery of the Messrs. Rollissons, of Tooting. Like the 

 others of the same genus, it is a native of New Holland, 

 and requires in this country an airy Greenhouse. It flowers 

 in April, and is easily propagated by cuttings. 



Its nearest relationship is with H. purpurea, from which 

 it differs in being excessively shaggy, instead of being 

 merely covered with a very short dense pubescence. The 

 reticulations of the leaves are also much larger and more 

 distinct in H. villosa than in H. purpurea. 



J. L. 



* See fol. 1423. 



