: Tas. 6877. 
HOYA Gnratrrirnait. 
Native of Eastern Bengal. 
Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADEZ.—Tribe MarspEninz. 
Genus Hoya, Brown ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 776.) 
Hora (Euhoya) Griffithii ; frutex glaberrimus, scandens, ramis elongatis flexuosis 
teretibus, foliis 6-9-pollicaribus per paria distantibus breviter petiolatis oblongo- 
lanceolatis oblanceolatisve acutis acuminatisve crasse coriaceis, costa crassius- 
cula, nervis tenuissimis patentibus obscuris, pedunculis axillaribus crassis 
elongatis, umbellis multifloris, pedicellis pollicaribus crassis, floribus 1-1}-poll. 
diam., sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis crassis, corolle sordide rosex lobis crassis 
triangulari-ovatis dorso concavis intus glabris, corone processubus magnis 
as hemisphericis faciebus planis in spinas obtusas stigma superantes pro- 
uctis. 
H, Griffithii, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 59; N. EF. Brown in Gard. Chron. 
1885, vol. ii. p. 334, fig. 74. 
This noble species of Hoya was discovered by the 
indefatigable Indian botanist and collector, Dr. W. Griffith, 
in the Khasia Mountains of Eastern Bengal, between 
Assam and Silhet, upwards of half a century ago; and it 
was again gathered there by Dr. Thomson and myself in 
1850, near Nowgong, at an elevation between 2000 and 
4000 feet above the sea. It is a near ally of the still 
nobler H. imperialis, Lindl., of Malacca, figured at Tab. | 
3397 of this work. A still nearer ally is the beautiful — 
H. coronaria, Blume, a hitherto unfigured species of Malacca 
and Penang, which has pubescent leaves and flowers. 
Flowering specimens of H. Griffithii were sent to Kew by 
Mr. Swan, of Oakley, Fallowfield, near Manchester, in July 
last, with the information that the plant had been at 
Oakley about ten years. Mr. Swan states that it came 
from Northern India, and was originally sent to his 
employer, W. Leech, Esq. It is, of course, a stove plant, 
and as such well worthy of cultivation. 
Descr. A tall quite glabrous climber. Stem slender, 
terete, flexuous. Leaves in distant pairs, four to ten inches 
_ long, very shortly petioled, elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate 
MAY lst, 1886. 
