Diervilla hortensis, grandiflora., florihunda, and versicolor, 

 four most beautiful shrubs, with trumpet-shaped rose-coloured 

 or white flowers, and the habit of upright Honeysuckles. 



Abelia serrata, a white-flowered bush, belonging to the 

 same natural order as the last. 



Viburnum plicaium and tomentosum, two plants resembling 

 our common Gueldres Rose. 



The last plant as yet figured is the Trochodendron arali- 

 oides, an evergreen shrub, from damp shady places in the 

 south of Japan, where it is called Jama-Kuruma, or Moun- 

 tain-wheel, because of the verticillate arrangement of its leaves 

 and numerous stamens ; it appears to be similar in habit to 

 our tree Ivy, 



1. HOYA coriacea. Botanical Register, 1839. t. 18. 



I find that this very rare plant is the Cyrtoceras reflexum 

 of Horsfield's Planta3 Javanica), p. 90. t. 21. Mr. Bennett, the 

 learned author of the genus, and of the greater part of the work 

 in which it appears, distinguishes it from Hoya by " the great 

 comparative elongation of the whole of its sexual apparatus, 

 which in Hoya is as remarkably depressed. The inner angle 

 of the foliola of the corona staminea, which in Hoya forms a 

 mere tooth incumbent on the anthera, is produced in Cyrto- 

 ceras into an erect lanceolate process, twice as long as the an- 

 thera, and equal in length to the external horn, at the base 

 of the foliola." It appears that mutilated specimens, *' appa- 

 rently of the same species, or at least of a very nearly related 

 plant, exist among the collections of Father Camel, in the 

 Sloanean Herbarium, (vol. 231.^ in the British Museum. 

 These were gathered in the island of Lu^on." *' From Dr. 

 Horsfield's notes we learn that the Javanese name of the 

 plant is Kappal, and that it grows in various localities in the 

 eastern parts of Java, at no great distance from the sea- 

 shore." It must not be confounded with the Kapal Kapal 

 of the Philippines, which, according to Father Blanco, is the 

 Asclepias or Calotropis gigantea ; and at all events is an entirely 

 difierent plant of the same natural order. 



Messrs. Loddiges find the plant so difificult to multiply, 

 that they have not yet succeeded in obtaining a duplicate. 



