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HOVE A* purpurea. 

 Purple Hovea. 



MOiXADELPHIA, on UlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Leg uMixos,?;. Trib. Loteoe De C. {Introduction to the 

 natural system of Botany, p. 86.) 

 HO VEA.—Suprd, vol. 4. p. 280. 



H. purpurea ; foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis mucronulatis supra glabris subtus 



tomentosis, pedicellis pitiolo brcvioribus geminis. 

 H. purpurea. Sweet's Flora anstralasica, no. 13. 



Frutox ramosus, dumosus, ramis crassiusculis, teretibus v. leviter avgu- 

 latis, tomentosis. Folia lineuri-oblonga, obtusa, apice mucronulala v. cal- 

 losa, suprd atroviridia, glabra, infra dense nunc ferrugineo-tomentosa ; in 

 spontaneis vix reticulata. Stipuloe minimce, subulatcB, tomentosce. Flores 

 gemini, axillares, pedicellis petiolo brevioribus, tribracteatis ; bracteolis 

 ovatis, obtusis, appressis, ferrugineo-tomentosis : duabus superioribus calyci 

 fere (equalibus, inferiore ininore et magis remold. Calyx dense tomentosus, 

 labio superiore truncato emarginuto, inferiore tridentato. Fiorcs purpurci. 

 Vexillum erectiim, subrotundo-ovatum, emarginatum, basi macula pallidd 

 viridi. Stamina monadelpha. 



A New Holland plant, recently introduced into our 

 Gardens. Our drawing was made in March last, at the 

 Nursery of Messrs. Low and Co. of Clapton, lately Messrs. 

 Mackay and Co. 



It is a greenhouse shrub of much beauty, flowering: 

 freely, and having a neat, healthy foliage. In the summer 

 it will grow in the open air; but it must be removed back 

 into the greenhouse upon the approach of frost. 



* Named in compliment to Mr. Anthony Pantaloon Hove, a Polish 

 gentleman, by whom many rare plants, from the east of Europe and west of 

 Asia, have been introduced to our Gardens. 



