NOTES ON HOYA. 417 



H. carnosa Br. if the two plants were identical, but this can in no 

 sense be accurate, inasmuch as H. carnosa was the first species 

 placed by Brown in his genus Hoy a, and is the Asclepias carnosa of 

 Linn. fil. (Suppl. 170 (1781) ). Traill {I. c. 2^) considers Haworth's 

 plant different from H. carnosa (the Schollera crassifolia of Jacquin, 

 EclogcB, p. 5, t. 2), but flowers were not known, and it is no doubt 

 correctly referred to H. carnosa. 



HoYA puKPURAscENS stauds in Ind. Kew. as of " Teijsm. & Binn. 

 Cat. Hort. Bog. 385 (nomen)." But it was previously described by 

 the same authors in Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. 408 (1863). The word 

 "nomen" should be added to the Ind. Kew. citation from Cat. 

 Hort. Bog. for H, ciliata T. & B. 



H. CuNNiGHAMi {sic) is giveu by Teijsmann & Binnendyck (in 

 Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. 408, and in Cat. Hort. Bogor. 130) as a 

 name under which H. excavata had been cultivated in the Utrecht 

 Garden. It is not in Ind. Kew. 



H. piLosA Seem, is retained in Ind. Kew. as a species, but can 

 hardly be said to have any claim to that position. It first appeared 

 in Bonplandia, ix. 257, as a nomen nudnm, and in Fl. Vit. 163, 

 Seemann says it was ♦• probably only a young state " of E. hi- 

 carinata {australis), ''having the leaves more hairy below." 



It may be well to append to these notes a full description — 

 drawn up by Mr. Hiern from a series of specimens which form part 

 of the collection lately made in Christmas Island for the British 

 Museum by Mr. C. W. Andrews— of the plant briefly diagnosed by 

 Mr. Hemsley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 355, as Hoya ALDRicmi :— 



'' Frutex volubihs, totus fere glaber atque carnosiusculus; caule 

 elongato, m vivo terete, tenaci, parce ramoso ; ramis tenuibus, 

 interdum intertextis ; succo copioso, lacteo ; foliis oppositis, ovatis, 

 apice acuminatis cuspidatisve, basi subrotundatis, glabris, carnoso- 

 coriaceis, planis vel prope apicem decurvis, 8-12 cm. longis, 

 4-5-5 cm. latis, super Isete viridibus, infra admodiim pallidis, basi 

 5-nerviis, nervis lateralibus minus conspicuis ; petiolo crasso, 

 patulo, 6-12 mm. longo, plus minus curvo, laminae perpendiculari ; 

 pedunculis uniaxialibus, rectis, firmis, 2-5-11 cm. longis, prope 

 basim ssepe quasi-articulatis, nonnunquam puberuhs, apice um- 

 belliferis; pedicelhs numerosis, ad 50 in umbella globosa, 12- 

 25_ mm. longis, rectis vel prope basim flexis, secus pedunculi 

 apicem subelongantem dispositis ; floribus pentameris ; calyce pro- 

 fundelobato, 5 mm. diam., ad corollse basim appresso; lobis ovatis, 

 obtusi, valde ciliatis ; corolla alba vel pallide violacea, carnosa,' 

 sub anthesin recurva ; lobis ovato-deltoideis, acutis vel apiculatis, 

 super pubescentibus, infra glabris, minute ciholatis, 5-6 mm. 

 longis ; corona pallide violacea vel purpurascente colore quam is 

 corollae intensiore, prominente, carnosa, 6 mm. diam. ; segmentis 

 substellatis, glabris, oblique ovoideo-conicis ; carpellis fructiferis 

 solitariis, tenuibus, subglabris, 12-17 cm. longis, basi calyce 

 immutato suffultis; seminibus numerosis, apice in coma albida 

 C. 2-5 cm, longa disinentibus. 



