specimens. I have examined these in Wight’s Herbarium, 
and find that the corolla is papillose within and its coronal 
lobes broader and flatter than in the Sikkim specimens ; 
unfortunately, however, these flowers are detached from 
the leaves, and may probably belong to another species 
(H. lanceolata). On the other hand the form of the coronal 
processes is not so constant in some Hoyas, as that species 
can safely be founded on it alone; and I have therefore 
adopted the course of regarding the Sikkim plant as a 
variety of the Nepal one. I need not remind the reader 
that Sikkim and Nepal are coterminous provinces, with 
almost identical vegetation, and that it is extremely im- 
probable, having regard to the distribution of Hoyas, that 
a strictly endemic species of it should exist in Nepal alone. 
The specimen figured flowered in Messrs. Veitch’s es- 
tablishment in October last. 
Descr. More or less hirsute with soft spreading hairs. 
Stems tufted, pendulous, very slender, flexuous, a foot long 
and upwards. Leaves one and a half to two inches long — 
by one-eighth to one-sixth of an inch in diameter, shortly 
petioled, cylindric, subacute, deeply grooved beneath, dark 
green. flowers in a sessile terminal lax umbel ; pedicels 
oue to one and a half inch long. Calyzx-lobes small, hirsute, 
ovate-lanceolate. Corolla half an inch in diameter, white, 
recurved, glabrous within; lobes short, broad, obtuse. 
Coronal processes stellately spreading, obtuse, subcylindric, 
very pale pink.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, corona viewed from above, and 3, from the side:—all enlarged — a 
