Tas. 4545. 
HOYA CAMPANULATA. 
Bell-flowered Hoya.. 
Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEH.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4397.) 
Hoya campanulata; volubilis, glabra, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis acutis 
subcoriaceis penninerviis, pedunculis petiolo longioribus, umbella multiflora, 
corolla late campanulata 5-lobata lobis brevissimis obtusissimis. 
Hoya campanulata. Blume, Bijdr. p. 1064. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 54. 
Puysosterma ? campanulata. Decaisne, in De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 632. Walp. 
Repert. Bot. p.493. 
Cysripranruus campanulatus. Harsk. Cat. Pl. in Hort. Bot. Bogor. p. 126. 
A very remarkable stove-plant, native of copses in the moun- 
tainous districts of Java, detected by Blume, and imported into 
England by Messrs. Veitch and Sons (to whom we are indebted for 
living plants) through the medium of their collector, Mr. Thomas 
Lobb. We agree with Dr. Lindley that, remarkable as 1s the 
form of the corolla, there is nothing to justify its separation from 
Hoya; and it does not accord with Physostelma of Dr. Wight, 
to which Professor Decaisne has doubtfully referred it. If dis- 
tinct from Hoya, it should bear Harskal’s name above quoted. 
Blume makes a section of it: “ Corolla campanulata, angulato- 
5-plicata, corone foliolis angulo exteriori adscendentibus integer- 
rimis”? It bears its curious, somewhat waxy and pale buff- 
coloured flowers in August. 
Descr. A long-stemmed twining shrub, with slender branches. 
Leaves opposite, oval-oblong, acuminate, scarcely coriaceous, 
penninerved. Petiole nearly half an inch long. Pedunele slen-— 
der, drooping, as is the large capitate umbel. Pedicels very 
slender. Calyx small, of five lanceolate sepals. Corolla large, 
an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in diameter, between 
membranaceous and fleshy, somewhat waxy, buff-coloured, 
broadly and shallow-campanulate, plicate, the margin cut into 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1850. 
