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* HOYÁ coriacea. 
T'hick-leaved Hoya. 
` PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADACER. 
HOYA. R. Br. Corolla rotata, 5-fida. Corona staminea 5-phylla, 
foliolis depressis patentibus carnosis, angulo interiore producto in dentem an- 
there incumbentem. Anthere membraná terminate. Masse pollinis basi 
affixe, conniventes, compresse. Stigma muticum, vel subapiculatum. Folliculi 
leves. Semina comosa. Frutices aut suffrutices, volubiles, scandentes, 
aut decumbentes. Folia opposita, carnosa v. membranacea. Umbellæ late- 
rales, multiflore. Wight Contributions to the Botany of India, p. 35. 
` 
H. coriacea ; foliis subvenosis ovalibus acutis v. acuminatis coriaceis glabris, 
corolla intús sericeà. Blume Bijdr. 1063? 
Suffrutex. Caulis teres, glaber. Folia glabra, subcoriacea, ovalia, 
acuta, venosa nec nervata, suprà atroviridia, infra pallida. Umbellæ mul- 
tiflore, pedunculate, pendule, axillares ; pedicellis glabris; bracteis minutis, 
squameformibus, tomentosis involucrate. Flores albidi; corolla rotatá, 
reflexá, intus pubescente, basi tomentosá, laciniis linearibus acuminatis. 
Corona staminea glaberrima ; foliolis utrinque acuminatis. Anthere oblonge, 
obtuse, membraná brevi bidentatá terminate. Pollinia erecta, glandulá 
simplici exsulcá. 
A very pretty stove plant, sent by Mr. Cuming to Messrs. 
Loddiges, from Manilla; it flowered for the first time in 
August 1838. 
The genus Hoya is a large one, the species of which 
abound in the southern parts of India, and are but imper- 
fectly known to Botanists. Dr. Wight mentions twenty as 
found in Hindostan and the neighbouring islands ; to which 
Dr. Blume adds nine more. The characters of the latter 
are so very short that it is impossible to ascertain, in the 
* Named in compliment to Mr. James Hoy, for many years the Botanical 
Gardener to the Duke of Northumberland at Syon House. 
April, 1839. H 
