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HO’'VEA PUN’GENS. 
PUNGENT HOVEA. 
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NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOSA. 
Artificial divisions Mowsnniemts, 
to which DECAN 
this Plant belongs. OF Lachabe. 
No. 164, 
CALYCIFLORE, 
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GENUS. Hovea. R. Brown. 
so vel semibifido, inferiore minore tripartito. Vexttium explanatu um, ALz& 
oblong vexillo breviores, carind obtusa longiores. Stamina omnia connexa 
vel decimo plus minusve libero, vagina antice vel utrinque ‘fissa. ANTHERE 
alterne ovate medifixa, ei] tofraiat oblong adnate. Ovariem bi- vel tri-ovula- 
tum. Sryxvus adscendens filiformis glaber. Srtiema obtusum, nudum. Lxc- 
UMEN subrotundum obliquum, ventricosum. Srmrna strophiolata. Surrey: 
ticks fruticesve Australasici. Foxta alterna ee Fores axillares pur- 
purei aut violacei. 
SP ES. Hovea PunceNs. View THAM.) Foutts linearibus margine 
é revolutis reticulate Jae ver bees ol rigidis apice D cwitibvaeavealee 
CHARACTER OF THE tena: Heviil Cini tid tip pa: the 
upper lip broad, retuse, or semibifid, the lower much smaller and 
three-cleft. STANDARD spreading. Wines oblong, shorter than the 
standard, longer than the blunt keel. STAMENS all united, or the 
tenth more or less free, the tube split in front, or both front and back. 
ANTHERS alternately oval and versatile, and oblong and adnate. 
Ovary with two or three ovules. STYLE ascending, filiform, smooth. 
Stiema, blunt, naked. Pod roundish, oblique, swollen. SrEps 
with a strophiola. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, HOVEA PUNGENS. STEM erect, 
shrubby, stiff, the young branches downy. Leaves alternate, simple, 
sessile, half to. three quarters of an inch Jong, spreading, linear, stiff, 
ending ina sharp pungent point, the margin revolute, transversely r 
reticulate, smooth or slightly hairy. Strputes stiff, one or two lines 
Jong, subulate. Prpiceis ustally solitary, short, one-flowered, cur- 
yed downwards, bearing at the top two small bracts, similar to the sti- 
pules and close to the calyx, and about half its length. Catyx covered 
with soft appressed hairs, curved, the upper lip very large and trun- 
cate, slightly emarginate, the divisions of the lower lip, narrow, and 
about half the length of the upper one. Coro.ta of a deep violet 
