Tas. 4969. 
HOYA coronaria. 
Coronated Hoya. 
Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEH.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4347.) 
Hoya coronaria, Bl.; caule scandente, ramis robustis, petiolis pedunculis calycibus 
extus foliisque subtus pilis curvatis magis minusve velutinis, foliis sublonge 
petiolatis crasse carnosis apiculatis basi obtusis obsolete transversim venosis 
marginibus subrecurvis, umbellis pedunculatis multifloris, corolla majus- 
cul laciniis triangularibus extus pubescentibus intus glabris, corone sta- 
minez foliolis angulo exteriore rotundatis obtusis. 
Hoya coronaria. Bi. Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. p. 1063 (excl. syn. Herb. Amb.), Rum- 
pkia, vol. 4. p. 31. t. 183. f. 2, et 4. 184. f. 2. 
Hoya grandiflora. Bl. MSS. et Decaisne in De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 635. 
Hoya velutina. Wight, Contr. Bot. of India, p. 35. Wall. Cat. n. 8150. 
Aroy kilampahan, Sundaicé. 
This fine Hoya was introduced to our stoves by the Messrs. 
Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Exotic Nurseries, from Java, 
through their collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb, and it proves to be 
the Hoya coronaria figured and described by Blume, |. c. It is, 
next to Hoya imperialis, Lindl., undoubtedly the largest-flowered 
species of the genus yet cultivated in our gardens. The colour 
of the corolla, though exhibiting no bright or gay tint, has no- 
thing of the lurid character of the species last mentioned ; it is a 
pale sulphur-yellow, prettily relieved by five red spots imme- 
diately around and at the base of the corona staminea. Blume 
appears to have been the first to discover this plant'in moist 
woods and shady banks of Western Java, and was then disposed 
to refer it to the “Corona Ariadnes punicea” of Rumphius, under 
the name of H. grandiflora, in which Decaisne has followed 
him in De Cand. Prodr.; but Blume afterwards corrected him- 
self, and gave of this species a good figure and description under 
the name we here adopt. It is not however peculiar to Java: 
Dr. Wallich detected it in Silhet. The milky juice of the leaves, 
MARCH lst, 1857. 
