Leguminosce^\ FLORA OF TASMANIA. 03 
Obs. Pultencea Bttekioidn (Benth. in Ann. Yienn. Mils. ii. s:>), said to he found in Van Piemen's Land, i* 
unknown to me. 
Gen. VI11. HOVEA, Br. 
Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore lato, rctuso, inferiore minore, tripartite. Vexilhoii cxplanatum. 
Stamina 10, monadelpha, filamento vexillari plus minus libero. Ovarium fc-8-ovulatum. v 
Legumen subrotundum, ventricosum. Semina stropliiolata. — Frutices v. fruticuli ; foliis a! 
cibus, stipulatis; floribus axillarihus, pvq.uct-is r. v'wlacch j pedicellis *JU,i. ■ * 
paucijloris. 
An Australian genus of about twenty known species, more than half m which are confined to the south-western 
part of that continent ; the remainder are South-east Australian, except one or two tropical spe< ics.— Shrubs or very 
small subherbaeeous plants, with alternate, stipulate, simple leaves, and axillary blue (lowers. Calyx two-lipped. 
upper lip lobed or retuse. Corolla papilionaceous. Ovary two- or three-o\uled. Stamens ten, monadelphou-. 
the upper more or less free. Pod orbicular or nearly so, turgid, one- to three-seeded. (Named in honour of .-/. /'. 
Hove, a Polish botanist.) 
1. Hovea purpurea (Sweet, Flora Australasica, t. 13); frutrx erect us, ramis incann-pubeseentibus, 
foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis nuuTonatis subtus iucnno-toincntnsis, tloribus solitariis binisve, < 
toso, legumine orbiculari turgido ferrugineo-tomentoso. — Bot, Rey. I. 1 l-">. 
Var. ft. montana ; minor, glabrata v. ramulis foliis subtus leguminibuaqae dense IV r: 
tosis. {Gnnn, 800.) 
IIab. Abundant tlirougbout tlie Island, in many soils and situations; var. ft on the mountains.- 
(11 Sept. Dec.) {v. r.) 
Disteib. New South Wales and South-east Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
This is one of the most common and variable plants in Fast Australia. 1m in- found from hit. : 
extreme of Tasmania, varying extremely in stature, halm, pubescence, and the h ngth and breadth of the leaves. It 
forms an erect or prostrate shrub, sometimes attaining a height of 6-8 feet, at others not above a foot, Mr. Grain 
has endeavoured in vain to estabbsh some differences amongst its varieties, and I am quite unable to find the smallest 
specific character amongst these.— Branches covered with a hoary or ferruginous pubescence. Leaves \-\\ inch 
long, narrow, linear-oblong, blunt or mueronate ; margins recurved, very coriaceous ; upper surface glossy: under 
densely tomentose. Flotcers bright blue, generally in pairs in the axils ( the leav. -. 
pedicelled. Pods extremely variable in size. Sn/d generally solitary, dark blown.— I have not united the // 
purpurea with fi te unable totraceany character bj 
has longer pods, and the Sowers spin num. oi toe 
Royal Gardens. Kew, assures me that the original //. laneeolah! ,at, ' (1 :it *■<•"'■ 
2. Hovea heterophylla (A. Cunn. MSS. in Herb. Hook.) ; procumbens, 
libus prostratis appresse pilosis, foliis (eodem ramulo) polymorphis breviter late dJipticifl elhptico-oblougis 
lanceolatis v. anguste linearibus acutis mucronatisve marginibus rccurvis subtus appresse pilosis glabratisvt . 
calycibus pedicellisque tomentosis, leguminibus late oblongis pubescentibus glabratisve. 
(Tab. XV.) 
Hab. Abundant in dry and stony places in various parts of the Island, Lawrence, Gunn, etc.— (Fl. 
Oct. Nov.) (*.*.) 
Distrib. New South "Wales and South-east Australia. 
