NOTES ON HOYA. 415 



specimen named by Brown was then in the Banksian Herbarium, 

 where it is still to be found. It appears to be different from any 

 species included in Fl. Brit. Ind., and as only Traill's brief 

 characterization (l. c. 28) has hitherto appeared, it may be well to 

 append the following full description, which has been drawn up by 

 Mr. Hiern from Brown's specimen and from his MSS. : — 



HoYA NicoBARicA R. Br. ex Traill in Trans. Hort. Soc. vii. part 1, 

 p. 28 (1827), and in Herb. Banks ! Stem rather slender, suffruticose, 

 rooting, obtusely quadrangular, glabrous ; leaves oval-ovate, pointed 

 or acuminate at the apex, obtuse or nearly rounded at the base, 

 glabrous, glaucescent, fleshy-coriaceous, 2-4 in. long by 1-2 in. 

 broad, the margins narrowly revolute, the lateral veins slender, 5-7 

 on each side of the less slender midrib, the base not conspicuously 

 trinerved ; petiole stout, glabrous, ^-i in. long, usually bent at or 

 near the apex ; flowers about i in. in diameter when fully expanded, 

 arranged in "beautiful globose umbels" of 1^-2 in. in dian:ieter ; 

 axillary peduncles about 1 in. long, nearly glabrous, persistently 

 thickened towards the bracteolate apex, where they give off a suc- 

 cession of numerous pedicels ; the terminal peduncles abbreviated, 

 with similar tips; pedicels slender, nearly glabrous, about | in. 

 long; bracteoles very short, somewhat puberulous, numerous; 

 calyx 5-partite, short ; the segments equal, ovate-oval, obtuse, 

 minutely apiculate, slightly glandular-puberulous on the back, 

 ciliolate, J^ in. long, membranous, flat ; corolla 5-cleft, the tube 

 scarcely longer than the calyx, cyathiform ; the lobes triangular- 

 ovate, reflected, -jL in. long, very shortly puberulous outside, 

 glandular-puberulous inside ; corona inserted at the apex of the 

 tube of filaments ; the scales 5, divaricate, a httle ascending, 

 ■^^ in. long, rather thick, cartilaginous-fleshy, lanceolate, marked 

 down the lower part of the back with a longitudinal furrow, angular 

 towards the subacute not sphtting apex, furnished inside near the 

 base with a short spur ; staminal tube short ; filaments closely 

 connate; anthers connivent, concealed by the corona, the apical 

 membranous appendages exserted. 



" Nicobar Isles ? Soc. unitat. Fratr., 1785," n. 136. 



There is also in Herb. Banks, a specimen labelled "Malacca, 

 Mr. Robertson, gathered Sept. 1772," of which Brown in his MSS. 

 says, " Flos omnino ut in planta nicobarica." The specimen is poor, 

 but Mr. Hiern has examined a flower, and considers it allied to, if 

 not identical with, H. 7iicobarica Br. 



HoYA PENDULA. 



Sir Joseph Hooker retains this name for the plant figured in 

 Wight's Ico7ies (vol. ii. t. 474),* in favour of which he rejects the 

 earlier H. pendiila of Wight's Contributions, p. 36 (not later than 

 1834), to which he gives the name H. Wightii. There has un- 

 doubtedly been confusion with regard to these plants, and it may 



* The title-page of this volume bears the date 1843, but there is reason to 

 believe that the part containing the plate did not appear later than 1841, 



