HORTUS VETTCHII 



This twining stove plant has thick, almost fleshy, leaves, and dense 

 umbels of honey-yellow flowers. 



HOYA COEONAEIA, Blume. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4969. 



Blume was apparently the first to discover this Hoya in the moist woods 

 and shady banks of Western Java, though it was sent to this country by 

 Thomas Lobb, and produced pale sulphur-yellow flowers for the first time 

 in November 1856. 



HOYA FEATEENA, Blume. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4684 ; Fl. des Serres, torn. viii. p. 179. 



A fine stove climber, discovered by Blume in Java, and later in the 

 same locality by Thomas Lobb, through whom it was introduced. 



The honey-yellow or buff-coloured flowers opened for the first time at 

 Exeter during the summer of 1851. 



HOYA LINEAEIS, Wall 



Bot. Mag. t. 6682. 



A curious species, with hairy linear leaves and corymbs of creamy 

 white flowers, first flowered at Chelsea in April 1883. 



HOYA PUEPUEEO-FUSCA, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4520 ; Fl. des Serres, 1850, p. 143. 



Introduced through Lobb, who describes it as a handsome climber 

 common to the woods at Panarang, this denizen of the stoves, with ovate 

 leaves and umbels of peculiar brownish-purple blossoms, flowered in 

 September 1849. 



HYPOCYETA PULCHEA, N. E. Brown. 



N. E. Brown in Gard Chron. 1894, vol. xvi. p. 244; Bot. Mag. t. 7468. 



A pretty little stove Gesneraceous plant, detected in New Grenada by 

 David Burke, through whom the introduction was made. The flowers, 

 singly in the axils of the uppermost leaves, are about 1 in. in length, 

 hairy, of a bright orange colour. 



HYPOCYETA STEIGILLOSA, Mart. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4047. 



A Gesneraceous plant with bright scarlet and yellow flowers in the 

 axils of the leaves ; the remarkable tubular corolla with an inflation on 

 the underside resembling the breast of a " pouter " pigeon. 



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