506 GAKDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



property of blossoming again upon the same footstalks upon 

 which they had blossomed the year before. They are easy of 

 propagation ; a single leaf half-buried, stalk lowermost, in fine 

 sand, will soon become a rooted plant. They require shade, and 

 should be grown in pots to which a bamboo trellis is attached 

 for their support. 



1. H. carnosa. A native of China ; thrives well in this country ; 

 the most common and well-known of all the Hoyas, as perhaps 

 it is one of the most beautiful ; a vigorously-growing plant with 

 thick oval, pointed, rich deep-green, shining leaves, feather- 

 nerved, the under-surface of a pale-green, against which its 

 blossoms, borne during all the Hot and Kain seasons in succes- 

 sion, are admirably relieved. Flowers in compact even-formed 

 umbels of the most delicate flesh-colour, wax-like, chaste, and 

 glistening. They possess none of the honey-like fragrance 

 which several of the species have. 



2. H. bella. A native of Moulmein, with leaves somewhat 

 larger than those of the Myrtle, but similar in form. Described 

 in Curtis as "' the most lovely of all the Hoyas ; flowers more 

 lively than and differently formed from those of H. carnosa, 

 and most deliciously scented ; the corolla of purer white and 

 corona of a deeper purple, resembling an amethyst set in frosted 

 silver." It is often cultivated in England suspended in a basket, 

 over the sides of which its long lax stems hang down, and have 

 a beautiful appearance when in full flower. A rare plant in 

 Calcutta, where it succeeds very indifferently. 



3. H. Paxtoni. Of this often mistaken for the preceding, but 

 differing from it in its leaves narrowing off to the 'end Mr. 

 Grote had several plants in his garden at Alipore in healthy 

 condition, grown upon a log suspended in the shade, and fas- 

 tened to it with Cocoa-nut fibre. 



4. H. Potsii. A rather extensive climber, with larger leaves 

 than those of any Hoya I have seen, being as much as seven 

 inches long and three-and-a-half broad, of a wedge-form, with 

 three parallel nerves ; flowers of a dull buff colour, not showy ; 

 thrives well about Calcutta, and is one of the species distributed 

 by the Agri-Horticultural Society. 



5. H. mollis. A very extensively climbing plant; flowers 

 thick, wax-like, with a slight purplish stain in the centre, borne 

 in most beautiful compact umbels. Cultivated for distribution 



