1 62 Asclcpiadece. \Hoya. 



with this, nor seen fresh specimens. There is an old drawing in the 

 Peradeniya collection without locality. Vahl's name, Collyrzs, for this 

 genus has priority over Dischidia. 



1 8. KOVA,^ Br. 



Twining or climbing shrubs, 1. thick and fleshy, fl, rather 

 large, in axillary umbels; cal. divided to base, segm. 5; cor. 

 rotate, fleshy, lobes 5, valvate ; column large, conspicuous, 

 stam. 5, connate, anth. membranous, covering over top of 

 stigma, pollen-masses i in each cell, erect, shortly pedicelled, 

 coronal processes large, fleshy or horny, adnate to stam., 

 spreading stellately ; follicles narrowly linear ; seeds small, 

 with long coma. — Sp. 60; 39 in Fl. B. Ind. 



L. narrowly oblong, obtuse . . . i. H. pauciflora. 

 L. oval, acute 2. H. ovalifolia. 



1. H. pauciflora, Wight, Ic. iv. pt. i, 16 (1850). 

 H. IVightiana, Thw. Enum. 199. C. P. 2762. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 56. Wight, Ic. t. 1269. 



A climbing shrub, often epiphytic, stems slender, cylin- 

 drical, giving off numerous adventitious roots, glabrous, the 

 younger ones slightly twining; 1. \\-2\ in., oblong-lanceolate 

 or oblong-linear, tapering or rounded at base, broadly obtuse 

 at apex, glabrous, shining, fleshy, often dotted with purple 

 beneath, petiole \ in.; fl. rather large, on slender glabrous 

 ped., 2-12 in sessile or very shortly stalked umbels, buds 

 depressed, 5-angled ; sep. small, lanceolate, glabrous ; cor. 

 about I in. diam., lobes broad, obtuse, or subacute, minutely 

 papillose and ciliolate, column depressed, coronal processes 

 conspicuous, fleshy, somewhat compressed, concave above ; 

 follicles about 4 in., linear, very slender. 



Forests of the moist region on tree trunks and rocks in the lower 

 montane zone; rather common. Hantane; Ramboda; Maturata; 

 Kitulgala. Fl. March and Sept.; white, column purple. 



Also in Malabar and Travancore. 



A beautiful plant; the name pauciflora is not always appropriate to 

 the Ceylon form. 



2. H. ovalifolia, W. &^ A. /« Wight, Contrib. y] (1834). 

 Thw. Enum. 198. C. P. 2670. 



Fl. 15. Ind. iv. 60. Wight, Ic. t. 847 (not good). 



A twining shrub, stems rather stout, glabrous, thickened 

 at the nodes ; 1. i ^-3 in., oval, tapering to slightly rounded 



* In honour of Mr. Thomas Hoy, 'an intelligent and successful 

 cultivator' at Sion House. Died 1809. 



