Roxburgh, of any, but manifestly cannot be that, of which we have 
not only an accurate description in the Flora Indica, but a figure m 
the Plants of Coromandel (vol. iii. t. 246, not quoted by Decaisne); 
and the leaves and flowers are totally at variance with our plant. 
It is true that Roxburgh quotes the Cumbulu of Hort. Malab. 
as the same plant, as he has quoted the Corona Ariadnis ot 
Rumphius under his Hoya Sussuela (see under our tab. 4397) with 
which it has no affinity. The plant of Rheede is indeed a faithful 
representation of our species. In my Herbarium I possess what 
is probably the same, gathered by Dr. Thomas Thomson at 
‘Gendwal (but without flower), and closely allied, another, if 
not the same species, identical indeed as to foliage and flowers, 
but in which the bracteas are very long, half to three-quarters 
of an inch, and subulate. 
Descr. Our plant, cramped in a pot, forms a small tree, 
thirteen or fourteen feet high, with few, straggling branches. 
Young branches downy, as are the /eaves, the latter are opposite, 
on long petioles, rhombeo-cordate, that is, with the base cuneate, 
and there, though scarcely visible in the recent state, having two 
orbicular glands, the margin entire or two- to three-lobed, the 
upper side dark green, the lower grey from more copious down. 
Flowers in a thyrsus, large, handsome, bracteated ; dracteas very 
small, ovate, concave, acute. Calyz cup-shaped, too tubular to 
be called hemispherical, but approaching to it, downy. Corolla 
large, dark tawny yellow, paler and very downy externally : tube 
many times longer than the calyx, enlarged upwards: /imd two- 
lipped, spreading: upper lip of two large rounded lobes, lower 
of three large lobes resembling the upper ones, except that the 
intermediate segment is more elongated, broader, and projects 
more forward ; all have the margins reflexed soon after expansion. 
Stamens didynamous; the two longer ones a little exserted. 
Ovary elliptical : style, as it were, jointed on the ovary, included : 
stigma bifid, segments subulate, unequal. 
Fig. 1. Pistil :—magnified. 
