Hoya. } ASCLEPIADACE, 699 
ovate, membranous, glandular within. Petals 5, connate in an 
urceolate corolla; mouth contracted; lobes very short, thick, 
valvate : corona of 5 membranous, erect scales, adnate to back of 
staminal column, with entire, notched, or’ 2-fid tips, or with 
recurved arms. Stamens 5, adnate to base of corolla-tube, fila- 
ments connate in a very short column; anthers erect, with mem- 
branous tips; pollen-masses in each cell solitary, compressed, 
erect, waxy. Carpels 2, distinct; stignia flat or conic. Fruit of 
2 small, thick or slender, smooth, acuminate follicles, Seeds 
minute; coma long 
267. Discurp1a Nummutarta R. Br.; F. B. I. iv. 49. 
Sundribuns ; Chittagong. 
A slender herb, rooting on the bark of trees. 
589. Hoya R. Br. 
Twining pendulous, or rambling and rooting, rarely erect, often 
cpt shrubs ; leaves opposite, firmly fleshy or thickly cori- 
Flowers in axillary or terminal umbels. Sepals connate 
in a eae 5-partite calyx, 5-glandular at the base within ; lobes 
ovate or lanceolate. Petals 5, connate in a rotate, fleshy or waxy 
corolla; lobes often convex or spreading and reflexed, valvate in 
ud: corona of 5 large, membranous, fleshy or horny scales, 
adnate to the staminal column, stellately spreading or ascending, 
turgid, or laterally or vertically compressed, often concave on the 
upper surface, margins usually recurved so as to enclose a cavity, 
the inner angle often produced in a tooth or spur erect or incum- 
bent on the corresponding anther. Stamens 5, adnate to base of 
corolla-tube ; filaments connate in a short column; anthers con- 
nivent above the stigma, with membranous, inflexed or ae tips, 
rarely with tips obsolete; pollen-masses solitary in cell, 
erect, pedicelled, waxy. Carpels 2, distinct ; stigma 2 ee flat 
or with an apiculate centre. Fruit of 2, usually slender acumi- 
nate thin-walled, rarely turgid and very thick-walled follicles. 
Seeds very small, ovate or linear-oblong; coma long. 
“Leaves, branchlets, and umbels quite glabrous; sepals ovate; corolla 
Pearly white, -3 in. wide; lobes glabrous within; coronal processes 
longer than corolla-tube; peduncles short or long; leaves 3-5 in. long, 
Winsor elliptic, or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, — flat; petiole 
p. 700] parasitica 
