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HOVEA linearis. 
Linear-leaved Hovea. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosm. Jussieu gen. 845. Div. V. Corolla irre- 
gularis, papilionacea. Legumen uniloculare bivalve.—=PAPILIONACER. 
rown in append. to Flind. voy. 2. i 
HOVEA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 280. 
HH. linearis, foliis linearibus subtis pilosiusculis, leguminibus glabris. Brown . 
in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 275. 
Poiretia linearis. Smith in trans. linn. soc. 9. 304. 
Fratex pube fulvo-fuscd villosus: rami teretes graciles stricti elastict sub- 
Rlexuosi laxids foliosi. Fol. 3-plo intervallis longiora, sparsa, patentissima, 
lanceolato-linearia, rugulis subtilibus utrinque immersé reticulata, subtas 
appressé pilosiuscula, margine depressa, recurvo-aptculata, nervo medio 
simplici subtas pube brevi ferrugined densd appressd vestito: petiolus fuscus 
teres brevissimus, stipula parvula subulaté utrinque stipatus. ' Flores 3 uncie 
subadequantes, lilacino-pallentes, inodori; pedunculi (an verius pedicelli in 
pedunculo obsoleto? basi enim coherent) per ramos ramulosque racemose dis- 
positi, axillares, partum longiores petiolis, sepins aggregate bini?—quaterni? 
rariis solitarti, 1-flori, fusco-hirsuti, bracted minutd singulorum bast ap- 
pressd. Cal. more pedunculorum pubescens, bracteolis 2 oppositis calyculatim 
subtensus, nutans, bis ferme brevior vexillo, bilabiatus, labiis quilongis, 
summo latissime cuneato truncato-retuso, lateribus defleats, dorso carinato, 
cornubus extremis acutis, imo ad % usque 4-fido segmentis equalibus erectis 
acuminatis. Vex. arrectum, oblato-v. subreniformi-ovatum, retusum, bast 
lamine areold luted margine radiata extis halone purpureo circumdata, 
ungue triplo breviore lineari-oblongo: ale porrectee vexillo d margine interiore 
transverse opposite oblonge apice rotundate, ungue brevi simplici: carina 
inclusa pauld exsuperans calcem, obtusa, compresso-ventricosa, apice saturate 
violacea, petalis a margine inferiore conniventibus, unguibus obsolete bicruri- 
bus crure altero brevissimo rotundato, altero angusto duplo breviore lamina. 
Fil. monadelphum brevitér equaliterque 10-fidum, fissurd dorsali omnind 
divisum: anth. pallidé lutea, lineari-oblonge, erecto-incumbentes. Germ. 
oblongum, viride, glabrum; stylus pluries longior, albus, glaber, filiformis, 
adscendens capitello stigmatoso minuto concolori pruinoso terminatus. 
Still an extremely rare greenhouse shrub, although in- 
troduced from New South Wales by Mr. George Hibbert, 
as far back as the year 1796. It is one of the two species 
enumerated in the Hortus Kewensis; but has never been re- 
presented by any published figure. Four species of this genus 
are now cultivated in our gardens. syste i 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col- 
ville in the King’s Road, Chelsea, where the plant is in 
