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HOVEA Celsi. 
Cels’s Hovea. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminos®. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Cor. irregularis, 
papilionacea. Legumen uniloculare bivalve. : 
HOVEA. Cal. bilabiatus: labio superiore semibifido retuso. Stam. 
omnia connexa. Carina obtusa. Legumen sessile subrotundum ventricosum 
dispermum. Semina strophiolata. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 275. 
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H. Celsi, ramulis teretibus, foliis lanceolatis subrhombeis, apice obtusis, 
mucronatis ; pedunculis axillaribus multifloris ; calyce bracteisque pilosi- 
usculis. Bonpland nav. & malmais. 125. tab. 51. 
Frutex altitudinem 4-6-pedalem in hortis acquirens; caule crassitudine 
digiti minoris, primo circa medium in ramos se dividente, cortice cinereo-fusco 
subrimoso: rami plurimi, pluriés divisi, superne flexi, plis minis villosi. 
Fol. coriaceo-rigentia, sparsa, laxa, erecto-patentia, rhombeo-v. ventricoso- 
lanceolata, 1-2-uncialia liciaidine 8-10-lineari, reticulato-venosa, utringue ob- 
iusata, apiculo mutico terminata, subtiis varicoso-nervosa villosaque villis in 
Junioribus a presertim ad costam mediam ) Suscescentibus ; petiolus teres, vil- 
losus, pluriés brevior lamina. Pedunculi numerosi, in ramis racemose digesti, 
axillares, solitarii, laxé pauci-pluri (2-4?) -flori, erecti, villost, teretes, fusct, 
pluriés longiores petiolis, breviores foltis: bracteolx bine appresse opposito- . 
laterales ad basin cujusque floris. Flores violaceo-cyanei, venosi, inodori, 
longitudine vir ae eri be subnutantes: cal. % brevior vexillo, ad § circitér 
usque 4-fidus, Suscescens, subsericeo-villosus, bilabiatus; labio’ superiore 
longiore latissimé cuneato v. turbinato, margine summo rotundato emarginaturd 
media brevi, dorso obtusé carinato; labio inferiore tridentato equali recto 
acuto. Cor, vex. erectum, patens, glabrum, obcordato-rotundum, valde majus 
alis et carind, summo margine inciso-emarginatum, macula ampliuscula sub= 
didymé alba ad basin, dorso carinato-plicatum; ungue brevi: ale spathulato- 
oblonga, purpureo-violacee, carinam minorem complectentes et und cum e& 
assurgentes, areolam albam vexilli cui accumbunt altitudine equantes, apice 
rotundate: carina obtusa, compressa, é petalis 2 partim coherentibus, alarum 
concoloribus, brevé unguiculatis. Stam. monadelpha cum fissura dorsali (v. 
interdum diadelpha? ) ceterum brevits divisa, «qualia: anth. breves, erecta, 
lulescentes, polline grumoso. Germ. pedicellatum, ovale, breve, compressum, 
diaphanum, albicans, glabrum, dispermum; stylus pluriés longior illo subu- 
lato-filiformis, glaber, infra compressus: stigma capitellum minutum pu- 
berulum. 
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Hovera, as far as the genus is yet known, is confined to 
New Holland. Four species have been recorded, two in 
the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, one in Curtis’s 
Magazine, and the present in the work we have quoted. 
The last was introduced into France by the naturalists of 
the celebrated French expedition to New Holland, under 
