[Plate 23.] 
THE OYAL AND THE PALLID HOYAS. 
(HOYA OVALIFOLIA AND PALLIDA.) 
from Tropical India, belonging to the Natural Order of 
§?pmfit Characters. 
L TEE OVAL HOYA,— Leaves fleshy, narrow, oval, 
3-nerved, rolled back at the edge. Peduncle rather 
shorter than the leaf, and smooth. Corolla fleshy, with 
ovate acute segments. Coronet-lobes acute, revolute at 
edge. Left-hand figwre. 
I. HOY A OVALIFOLIA, 
Foliis carnosis angustis ovali- 
bus trinerviis margine revolutis, pedunculo folio paulo bre. 
viore glabro, corolla carnosa glabra laciniis ovatis acutis, 
cor once foliolis acutis margine revolutis. Fig. sinutr. 
Hoya ovalifolia : Wight and Amott, contributions to the Flora of India, p. 37 ? 
II. TEE PA LLID HO Y A.— Leaves fleshy, ovate, feather- 
veined, turned back at the edge. Peduncle rather shorter 
than the leaf. Corolla fleshy, smooth, with ovate acute 
segments. Coronet-lobes acute, revolute at edge. Right- 
hand figure. 
II. HOYA PALLIDA. 
carnosis 
• * 
margine revolutis, pedunculo folio paulo breviore glabro, 
carnosa glabra lacmns 
acutis margine revolutis. 
dextr, 
Hoya pallida : Lindley in Botanical Eegister, t. 951. 
JOE the knowledge of the first of these species we are indebted to the Chat 
it flowered in June last, from among Mr 
Indian collection. Along with it is 
represented on the right hand the Pallid Hoya, which blossomed at Chatsworth at the same time, 
comparison of the two figures will show their differences better than mere description. 
The Pallid Hova was ori<rinaUv observed at Syom whence, in 1825, materials were supplied for a 
figur 
unkn 
but the Chatsworth plant now 
specimens 
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