produced from different parts of its twining stem. We have 
used a compost of equal parts of loam, rotten leaves, and_ peat, 
with some flakes of dry-half-decayed dung intermixed, and a 
liberal supply of sand and broken crocks blended with the whole. 
The plant which we exhibited was trained round a low circular 
trellis, not exceeding three feet in height, and independently of 
the expanded truss from which the drawing was made, there 
were several others in different stages upon it. We have also 
one planted in a corner of the stove, which is twining round 
a single wire over the path, and upon this there are trusses of 
flowers ready to expand, having sLEvEN flowers on each. This I 
think will be found to be the best method of treating it, for 
with its long pendant bunches of large flowers, overhead, it is a 
most striking object. Hach individual flower lasts a very long 
sept in bloom, and is highly fragrant in the evening and all the 
night. 
“T send you herewith some of the dried juice of Hoya impe- 
rialis, it hardens almost directly after being taken from the plant, 
and flows so copiously from the wound that I cannot help thinking 
it may be found available for some useful purpose.” —Pince. 
I think this will prove to be the Asclepias Sussuela of Roxburgh, 
from the. Moluccas, who has erred in quoting Rumphius’ 
“ Sussuela,”’ and whose specific name is consequently untenable. 
His character, brief as it is, sufficiently accords, and he describes 
the corolla as “nearly three inches in diameter.” It seems to 
be a free flowerer and fragrant. 
Dxscr. A climber of quick growth, with rounded, downy, dark 
green ranches. Leaves opposite, on short, terete, thick, downy 
Jootstalks, from six to nine inches long, obovato-lanceolate, 
acuminulate, coriaceous, thick, firm, slightly convex above, but 
even (not waved), with obscure, patent, rather distant, parallel 
nerves, dark green above, paler beneath, and downy on the costa. 
Pedunele extra-axillary, much longer than the leaves, terete, 
downy ; flexuose and pendent, terminated by a very large umbel 
of from nine to fourteen fragrant flowers! each three inches in 
diameter. Pedicels downy. Calya of five, downy, very obtuse, 
-oval sepals. Corolla rotate, pale purplish, downy, within rich 
purple-brown, glossy, pale in the centre: segments spreading, 
cordato-trian: the faux elevated, loose around the column. 
Staminal crown \arge, projecting, ivory white, fleshy, glossy: 
Jolioles two-lobed ; outer lobe large, oval, compressed, flattened 
on the back, rather obtuse; the imner forming a sharp erect 
tooth, as long as the outer lobe. 
Fig.1. Flower, the segments of the corolla being removed :—magnified. 
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