JUNE, 1849, 
ILLUSTRATIONS, 
HOYA BELLA—Tue seavtirut Hoya. 
yee old well-known Hoya carnosa, with its pendulous corymbs of 
wax-like flowers, replete with honey, and filling the house it 
inhabits with its rich but peculiar fragrance, is too well known to need 
description. 
Many newly-discovered species have of late years been introduced, 
and some have flowered ; but with two exceptions none have equalled 
the old favourite above mentioned. 
Our present subject, however, is superior in every point of view; 
the flowers, for delicacy and beauty, surpass all the kinds yet known. 
The habit of the plant is not climbing, nor does its general growth at 
all resemble that of H. carnosa; the branchies are slender, numerous, 
and thickly clothed with small leaves, scarcely so large as those of the 
broad-leaved Myrtle, and not much unlike them in form. 
The flowers are not only beautiful individually, but the corymbs are 
viewed to great advantage, from the circumstance of so large a pro- 
portion of green foliage forming a dense back ground ; the petals are 
of a very pure white, and beautifully frosted ; the central corona of 
fructification is of a rich carmine purple, and forms a very striking and 
lively contrast to the petals. Altogether it is a plant of first-rate 
importance in a collection, as the flowers endure in perfection for a 
long time, and are delightfully fragrant. 
NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
BaRKERIA MELANOCAULAN—DARK-STEMMED. 
Orchidacee. 
A graceful little plant. The flowers are borne ona pendant raceme 
from the apex of the stem; they are from twelve to fourteen in number, 
Vou, xvit. No. 30.—W.S. M 
