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purple. SraMens monadelphous, the sheath split in front. Ovary 
smooth, stipitate, with two or three ovules. 
Porvtar aND GrocrapnicaL Notice. The genus Hovea, rich 
in ornamental species, extends along the South Eastern portion of 
Australia, from Moreton Bay on the East Coast, to King George’s 
Sound, on the south coast, some species being also found in Van Die- 
men’s Land. It is a very natural and distinct group, all the species 
having considerable affinity to each other, and being readily distin- 
guished from other genera by characters necessarily minute in an order . 
so vast as that of the Leguminose, but constant. The flowers are 
always more or less blue or purple, and the calyx is unlike that of any 
other genus, except Platylobium and Bossiza, which have yellow flow- 
ers. The leaves in most of them are variable in form, being much 
broader in the lower part of the plant. The species, which is the sub- 
ject of the present article, is a native of King George’s Sound, and is 
easily known by its narrow pungent leaves. It is one of the most bril- 
liant in colour, and, when well grown, becomes nearly as full of flower 
as the Hovea chorozemefolia. G. B. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. The seeds of Hovea 
pungens were first gathered at King George’s Sound, by Charles 
Baron Hugel, and raised, amongst a great variety of Australian 
plants, collected by him, at his establishment at Hietzing, near Vienna, 
where it first flowered, in the spring of 1837, and was figured in the 
second number of a publication, commenced at Vienna, in imitation 
of the Botanical Register, but which does not appear to have been as 
yet continued. From Baron Hugel Messrs. Rollisson obtained this 
species, and it was at their nursery, at Tooting, that our drawing was 
made. Itis as easy of cultivation as other New Holland Papilionacez. 
DERIVATION OF THE NaMEs. 
Hovea, named by R. Brown in honour of cava Pantaleon Hove, a traveller 
who introduced many eer and Crimean plants to the Kew Gardens. 
Hovea puncens. Bentham, in ates ‘Ereeesvtlss p. 36, Botanisches Archiv, 
ix t. 7. ; 
