PopuLaR AND GEOGRAPHICAL Notice. This very interesting 
plant would appear to be native of several of the islands of the Indian 
Archipelago, having been found in Java, in the eastern part of which 
it was found by Dr. Horsfield, at no great distance from the sea-shore, 
(where it bears the name of Kappal) and also in the island of Lucon, 
where it was discovered by Father Camel, and since by Mr. Cuming. 
It has been made the basis of a new genus by Mr. Bennett, who 
deemed it preferable to take this step to erecting an additional section 
in the genus Hoya, to which it is akin. Independently of the points of 
structure in the flower, by which it differs from that genus, it presents 
certain peculiarities of habit which serve further to distinguish it. It 
does not send out roots from its stem, as the species of Hoya do, nor 
is the flower possessed of that property of secreting a saccharine juice, 
forming a limpid coating to the stigma, as may be observed in the 
Hoya carnosa and others. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTure. Sent by Mr. Cum- 
ing from Manilla, in 1837, to Messrs. Loddiges, in whose stove it 
flowered for the first time in 1838, and again last year, when our 
drawing was made. Dr. Lindley says, “ It seems to be nearly parasiti- 
cal in its habits. Messrs. Loddiges grow it in the Orchidaceous house, 
_on the block of wood upon which it was imported : this is placed in a 
pot, and surrounded by earth. It will grow in any light soil, the chief 
thing in its cultivation being a warm and moist atmosphere.” No 
means have yet succeeded in multiplying it. 
horn ion Or THE Nam 
Cyrroceras from evprog KuRTOS, curved, and eps ene a horn, from the 
curved state of the horn of the Paste ents of the er 
Syn E. 
CyRTOcERAS REFLEXUM. Bennett, et Horsfield’s Plante Javanice rariores, 
p. 90, t. 21 : 
Hoya cortacgea. Lindley: in Botanical Register, 1839, t. 18. a mistake, cor- 
cted in Miscell, 1840, p. 7. 
