Coroita blue. STameENS usually completely diadelphous. Ovary 
perfectly smooth. Pop sessile, or nearly so; broader than it is long, 
and very oblique, perfectly smooth. 
Poputar anp Geocrapuicat Notice. The geographical range 
of the genus Hovea will shortly be stated under Hovea pungens. 
This species is one upon which Sweet, in the Flora Australasica, 
established a genus which he called Plagiolobium; distinguishing it 
from Hovea by the tenth stamen being entirely free from the others, 
as well as by the shorter and more oblique pod; but the former of these 
characters is very uncertain in several species of Hovea, and the obli- 
quity of the pod is more or less observable in all; and if this plant be 
compared with Hovea Celsi and some others, it will be readily acknow- 
ledged that there is nothing in the habit to distinguish it generically. 
Sweet added, in a note, a second species, which he called Ilicifolia, a 
name frequently given in our gardens to Hovea chorozemefolia, but 
we have never seen either cultivated or wild specimens having the 
hairy pod mentioned by Sweet, and we presume, therefore, that unless 
the pod and leaf seen by him were mismatched, this Plagiolobium 
ilicifolium is not frequent about King George’s Sound. The specimens 
named Hovea ilicifolia by Mr. Cunningham, are all referable to the 
present species. 
InTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. The Hovea choro- 
zemefolia was first raised from seeds, collected by Mr. Bagster at 
King George’s Sound, and flowered in 1827. It has since been trans- 
mitted by others, and is not uncommon in our collections. It is of 
great beauty when well flowered; indeed, the spiny-toothed glabrous 
foliage of this shrub makes it ornamental, independently of its 
blossoms. Our drawing was made in March, from a plant belonging 
to G. Glenney, Esq. of Worton Lodge. Although this plant succeeds 
best near the glass in an open part of the greenhouse, full exposure to 
summer showers does it injury. Its soil should be sandy peat and 
loam. Cuttings strike root slowly in sand; the best plants are raised 
from seeds : 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMES. 
Hovea, in honour of Anthony Pantaleone Hove, collector for the Kew Gardens, 
who introduced various Persian and Crimean plants. CuorozEM#rFronia, 
with leaves like those of the Chorozema ilicifolia. 
SyNoONYME 
Hovea ce emer et DE&CANDOLLE: ANE Oe 2, p. 116. Botanical 
Register, t. 1524. 
eben CHOROZEM4FOLIUM. Sweet: Flora Australasica, t. 2. 
