Tas. 5269. 
HOYA SuHeEpPHERDI. 
Mr. Shepherd's Hoya. 
Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEH.—PENTANDRIA DIGyYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5148.) 
Hoya Shepherdi; scandens, caule tereti papilloso, foliis 6-uncialibus linearibus 
y. lineari-lanceolatis deflexis crasso-carnosis supra atro-viridibus canali- 
culatis subtus pallidioribus semiteretibus aveniis ad petiolum geniculatis, 
petiolis brevibus teretibus, pedunculis subaxillaribus clavatis, umbellis plu- 
rifloris albo-roseis, pedicellis clavatis, calycis lobis brevibus triangulari- 
bus, corollz lobis precipue ad marginem villosis, coronz foliolis erecto- 
patentibus. 
We owe the possession of this remarkable species of Hoya 
to Mr. Short, who communicated it under the MS. name of 
H. Shepherdi to the Royal Gardens, where it flowered in June, 
1861; but we are unable to find any described species with 
which it satisfactorily accords, though copious specimens exist 
in our herbarium, gathered by Drs. Hooker and Thomson in 
Sikkim-Himalaya, at elevations of 3000 to 4000 feet, and in 
Khasya. In some respects it agrees with the Hoya longifolia of 
Wallich, in Wight and Arnott’s Contrib. p. 36, and of Decaisne, 
in De Candolle, Prodr. v. 8, p. 637; but the shape of the foliage 
and the large size of the flowers are quite at variance with our 
plant, the corona of which is much more erect. The flowers 
are small, and bear no very distant resemblance to those of 
Hoya Bella, figured at our Tab. 4402 ; but the leaves consti- 
tute its chief distinguishing character: they are as it were ge- 
niculated at the apex of the rather short, terete petiole, or bent 
down suddenly at an angle, and thus become pendent: they 
are from two to (mostly) six inckes long, not more than four 
lines wide, shortly acuminated at the apex, very dark on the 
upper side, and there canaliculate for their whole length, paler, 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1861. 
