115. (ivNOXYS fragrans. Hooker. A hothouse perennial plant, from Guatemala, with very 
fragrant yellow flowers, appearing in December. Stems trailing. Belongs to Composites. 
tubrodoced by Mr. Skinner. (Fig. 54.) 
Stems long, climbing, perennial, with succulent branches, showing a disposition to root at their base. Leaves rather 
distant, on long petioles, ovate or approaching to lanceolate, acute, of a rather fleshy texture, dark green. The flower- 
heads are rather large, very fragrant, and form a terminal, and in the lower part leafy, corymbose raceme. A coarse 
soft- wooded scandent plant, having a large, thick, fleshy root, of the nature of a tuber. It grows freely in a mixture of 
light loam and peat or leaf-mould, and, by its rapid growth and clean habit, is well adapted for covering trellis- work in the 
hothouse, especially as it is not liable to be attacked by insects. It increases readily by cuttings ; but these, on account 
of their soft, succulent, nature, must not be kept too close, or they will damp off before they produce roots. — Botanical 
Magazine, t. 4511. 
116. Hoy a coin ace a. Blume. A Java climbing shrub, with the habit of Hoya carnosa, and 
umbels of yellowish flowers. A stove plant, flowering in August. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch 
and Co. (Fig. 55.) 
Disco red by Dr. Blume in mountain woods on the western side of Java. Mr. Thomas Lobb detected it in the same 
island, on Mount Salak. Everywhere glabrous. Stem branched, twining, taper. Leaves on short thick petioles, which 
are glandular above at the setting on of the blade, which latter is almost exactly elliptical, or approaching to ovate, acute, 
between coriaceous and fleshy, acute or shortly acuminated, ribbed, with rather indistinct veins. Peduncles longer than 
the leaf, pendent, bearing a large nmbel of numerous flowers, brown in the state of the bud, much paler when fully 
expanded. Pedicels very obscurely villous. Sepals subulate, much 
externally, within pale tawny, and downy. The lobes triangular, acute. Coronet white, with a dark brown eye : leaflets 
ovate, gibbous at the base, obtuse, the apex a little curved down. — Botanical Magazine, t. 4518. 
117. Hoy a ptjupureo-fusca. Hooker. A remarkable twining stove plant, with small umbels of 
riclilv tinted purple and grey flowers. A native of Java. Flowers in September. Introduced by 
Messrs. Veitch and Son. (Kg. 56.) 
Said to be common in the woods of Java. Sir W. Hooker compares it with the Cinnamon-leaved Hoya, and with the 
great-leaved (//. macrophylla) " but in the latter the leaf is reticulated between the nerves, the staminal crown (coronet) 
has the leaflets much more acuminated, and the colour of the flowers is quite different." It is a glabrous twining and 
branching shrub, everywhere (except the corolla) glabrous. Branches often throwing out short fibrous roots. Leaves 
on very thick brownish petioles, 4 to 5 inches long, exactly ovate, acute, or shortly acuminate, thick, fleshy, 5-nerved, the 
nerves all divereinc from the base, and bavin? a planri at *h« t~* 
shorter 
bearing 
Peduncles axillary 
\ dense many-flowered umbel. Corolla rotate, ashy-brown, downy 
and hirsute above, cut into 5 roundish and shortly acuminated lobes. Coronet of 5 ovate, fleshy, rich purple-brown, acute 
leaflets, nearly plane at the top, convex below.— Botanical Magazine, t. 4520. 
118. A otto cordifolius. Bentham. {alias Gastrolobium Hugelii Henfrey.) A pretty green- 
house iegammoitf shrub from Swan Kiver, with glaucous heart-shaped leaves in threes, and large 
yellow axillary flowers. Introduced by Messrs. Knight and Perry. 
This well-known plant, long ago published by Mr. Bentham under the name here quoted, is reproduced as a novelty 
m the Gardeners' Magazine of Botany. It is rather a nice plant, but its grey leaves are a disadvantage, and its yellow 
flowers are too much like those of a Genista. It must rank with Pultenseas and plants of that kind, and requires the same 
•ort of management ; that is to say, it wants to be potted in loose turfy soil, more loamy than peaty, to be grown in a brisk 
heat, with plenty of water applied with a syringe, in order to keep the air damp, and then when the growth is completed 
to be carefully hardened off. If they grow over fast the shoots will hpar in hp «tnnr*>,l . w w *;n *h» 
process 
lengthening 
110, Tropjegloi Beuthii. KlotzscL A tuberous 
Flowers yellow. Introduced by Messrs. Low and Co. 
leaflets 
green 
long a< the calyx. Near Tropoolura brachveeras 
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