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XLIII. LEGUM1N0S.E. 
[Templctonia. 
stipitate, with 6 to 8 ovules. Pod nearly sessile, obliquely long, 6 to 8 lines long 
and about 4 broad, the valves very coriaceous and slightly convex. — Dariesia egena, 
F. v. M. in Trans. Viet. Inst. 118 ; Bossiaxi egena, F. v. M. in Hook. Kew 
Journ. viii. 43 ; Fragm. iii. 94. 
Hab.: Given as a Queensland plant by F. v. M. in Census Austr. Plants. 
20. HOVEA, R. Br. 
(After A. P. Hove.) 
(Poiretia, Sm.; Plagiolobium, Sweet; Platychilum, Delawn.) 
Calyx, upper lobes united into a broad truncate upper lip, entire or slightly 
emarginate, the 3 lower ones much smaller, lanceolate. Petals clawed ; standard 
nearly orbicular, emarginate ; wings shorter, obliquely obovate, auriculate on the 
inner side at the base ; keel much shorter, slightly incurved, obtuse, the petals 
slightly cohering. Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side and 
sometimes split also on the lower side, or rarely the uppermost stamens, and very 
rarely the lowest free ; anthers alternately long and erect and short and versatile. 
Ovary sessile or stipitate with 2 or rarely more ovules ; style incurved, rather 
thick ; stigma terminal. Pod sessile or stipitate, turgid, very obliquely globular 
or ovoid, the valves at length entirely separating. Seeds reniform on short 
funicles, strophiolate. — Shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or prickly- 
toothed, glabrous above, often tomentose underneath. Stipules setaceous, minute 
or none. Flowers blue or purple, in axillary clusters on very short racemes or 
rarely solitary. 
The genus is entirely Australian, and easily recognised by the habit, the calyx, the colour of 
the flower and short turgid pod, although it is closely connected with Templctonia, through H. 
longipes. — Benth. 
Ovary and pod sessile. 
Pod glabrous or slightly pubescent. 
Stems erect. Leaves numerous, long, mostly narrow-linear . . . . 1. H. linearis. 
Stems decumbent. Lower leaves ovate, upper ones lanceolate or linear 2. H. lieterophylla. 
Leaves narrowed at both ends 3. H. acntifolia. 
Pod tomentose or villous. Leaves oblong, lanceolate or linear, obtuse at 
both ends 4. H. longifolia. 
Ovary and pod stipitate, always glabrous. Leaves with numerous oblique 
parallel veins. Calyx lower lobes nearly as long as the upper . ... 5 . H. longipes. 
1. H . linearis (linear leaves), R. Br. in Ait. Hart. Kew ed. 2, iv. 275; 
Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 172. Apparently a low shrub, with erect not much-branched 
stems, of 1 to 2ft., closely tomentose or pubescent or at length nearly glabrous. 
Leaves nearly all narrow-linear, 1^ to Sin. long, obtuse with a small point, 
coriaceous with recurved margins, more or less reticulate, quite glabrous or 
pubescent underneath, the lower ones occasionally lanceolate or oblong-elliptical. 
Flowers rather small, solitary or 2 or 3 in each axil, on very short pedicels. 
Calyx about 2 lines long, more or less silky-hairy. Staminal sheath open on the 
upper side only. Ovary glabrous. Pod sessile, glabrous, about 4 lines broad and 
long. — DC. Prod. ii. 115 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1222?; Poiretia linearis, Sm. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 304. 
Hab.: Southern parts of the colony. 
This very much resembles the long linear-leaved varieties of H. longifolia. It appears to be a 
smaller plant, the leaves are not so coriaceous, the flowers smaller and the pod shorter, and 
always quite glabrous. The specimens figured, Bot. Beg. t. 463, and in Paxt. Mag. xii. 75, seem 
to connect this also with the following. — Benth. 
2. XI. heterophylla (various-leaved), A. Cunn. in Hook. FI. r Tasm. i. 93, t. 
15 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 172. Very closely allied to H. linearis, and perhaps a 
variety only, although usually very different in aspect. Stems decumbent or 
prostrate at the base, with ascending or erect slender branches, clothed with a 
