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Hoya Porrsir. Mr. Porrs’s Hova. 
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Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Dicynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—AscLepiaDEz. ) 
Generic Character. ve  @ 
Masse Pollinis leves, 10, erecto-conniventes. Anthere 
membrana terminate. Corona staminea pentaphylla, foli- 
olis depressis, angulo interiore producto in dentem anthere — 
incumbentem. Cor. rotata. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Hoya* Pottsii ; foliis cordato-ovatis brevi-acuminatis supra 
trinerviis, corolla supra vix pubescente. 
Hoya Pottsii. Trail, in Hort. Trans. v. 7. p. 25. t. 1.? 
Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 1609. 
Cultivated in the stove of the Bot. Garden of Glasgow, 
where it flowers in May. It is much to be regretted that 
Mr. Trait, in his otherwise valuable paper on the different 
species of Hoya, has not more precisely defined the charac- 
ters between his Hoya Pottsii and H. trinervis. Our plant 
is undoubtedly the H. Pottsit of the Bot. Cabinet, but the 
colour of the flowers is different from that of Mr. TRAILL, 
and in this respect, as well as in some others, it agrees better 
with the trinervis, of which its author says, “ It bears a great 
resemblance to H. Potsii, from which, however, 1t may be 
principally distinguished by its larger and thinner leaves, 
the veins of which are more strongly marked, and also by 
the yellowish colour in the centre of the crown.” May not 
the two be varieties of one and the same plant? In ours, 
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* Named in honour of Mr. THomas Hoy, gardener to His Grace the 
Duke of Northumberland. 
