Various editors

“ It is a very elegant and ornamental species, its blossoms being beautifully coloured, the upper sides of the leaves glossy green, sometimes transversely wrinkled, the underside and the branches thickly covered with a ferruginous tomentum. ”

“ Hovea pannosa, thus named by its indefatigable discoverer, Mr Allan Cunningham, is a native of Mount Stirling, in the country northward from Bathurst, in the interior of New South Wales, and was raised at the Royal Gardens of Kew from seeds, sent in 1823. ”

“ Descr. Stem erect, rigid, branched, branches clothed with a dense, ferruginous tomentum. Leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, entire, glabrous, dark green and smooth above, with a depressed midrib, below clothed with a dense rusty-coloured down, and marked with a prominent midrib. At the base is a short, downy, petiole; at the point a small tuft of hairs. Stipules linear, very downy. Flowers produced in axils of the leaves, two or three from each of the upper leaves, on downy, short stalks, with a linear-subulate bractea at their base. Calyx very downy, and rusty coloured, two lipped ”