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Tan. 92/2. 
HOYA (OrosremMa) Lacunosa, var. pallidiflora. 
Furrowed Hoya, pale-flowered var. 
Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEH®.—PENTANDRIA D1GYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx brevis, pentaphyllus. Corolla rotata, plus minusve alte 5- 
fida, laciniis planis vel reflexis, sestivatione valvata. Corona staminea 5-phylla; 
foliolis depressis, patentibus v. plus minusve gynostegio verticaliter adnatis, car- 
nosis, angulo interiore in dentem anthere incumbentem producto. Gynostegium 
breve. Anthere membrana terminate. Masse pollinis basi affixe, oblonge, 
compress, conniventes, seepius margine pellucidee. Stigma muticum, cum pa- 
pilla media obtusa v. subapiculatum. Foldiculi leves v. appendiculis instructi, 
subpolypteri. Semina cothosa.—Frutices vel suffrutices Indici vel Moluccani, 
rarissime Africani, volubiles, scandentes aut decumbentes ; foliis carnosis vel co- 
riaceis vel membranaceis; floribus umbellatis; umbellis extra-axillaribus, sepius 
multifloris. Decne. 
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Hoya (Olostemma) lacunosa; scandens radicans, foliis mediocribus carnoso-co- 
riaceis ellipticis basi apiceque acuminatis petiolatis obscure penninerviis 
nervis immersis, pedunculis solitariis interpetiolaribus, umbellis multifloris 
planis, laciniis calycinis marginibus carinaque denticulatis, corolle rotate 
carnose velutino-villosee lobis triangularibus demum reflexis, corone sta- 
mineze foliolis navicularibus concavis. 
Hoya lacunosa, Blume, Bijdr. p.1063. Decne. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 638. 
Blume, Rumphia, v. 4. t. 184. f. 2. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4826. 
Orosremma Jacunosum, Blume, Rumphia, 1. c.p.30. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 
v. 1. p.59.f.11, Walp. Annal. Bot. Syst. v. 3. p. 65. 
8. pallidiflora ; foliis enervibus, floribus decoloratis. (Tan. Nostr. 5972.) 
A native of Java, and notwithstanding tbe obsolete nerva- 
tion of the leaves (which latter are broader than usual at their 
base), and the almost colourless flowers, cannot otherwise 
be distinguished from the Hoya /acunosa of Blume, and our 
Tab, 4826, to which we refer for a more full description. In- 
deed, had it not been that the figure was engraved, and the 
plates coloured, before the close similarity was detected, we 
OcTOBER Ist, 1861. 
