700 BENGAL PLANTS. [| Hoya. 
*Leaves, oR and umbels more or less hirsute :—[p. 699] 
Sepals rounded; corolla creamy-yellow, °5 in. wide; lobes nearly 
iT yorvel ; coronal processes shorter hen corolla-tube ; 
peduncles long; pedicels villous; leaves 5-7 in. long, elliptic or — 
oblong, cuspidate or acuminate, margins flat ; petiole -5—1 in. 
globulosa. 
ee roca corolla white, -6 in. wide; lobes silkily villous ; 
mal processes as ni as corolla-tube ; peduncles short; pedicels 
aainbly Bae pails 1-5-3 in. Bae ovate, or oe acute, 
margins recurved ; petiole *25—-5 in ndula. 
1268. Hoya PARASITICA Wall.; F. B. I. iv. 57. Aseclepias para- 
sttica 
ssilaiibeind tm Bengal; Tippera; Chittagong. 
A large clim 
1269. Hoya GLOBULOSA “Hodk: £5 0F Re 1. iv. 60. 
4 climber. 
1270. Hora? PENDULA Wight ; B. B. I. iv. 61; E. D. H. 44% 
Asclepias pendula F. I. ii. 36. 
Orissa; Chota Sie 
A rather slender climber. 
590. Ceropegia Linn. 
Twining, less often erect herbs, usually with a tuberous root- 
Fl 
stock ; leaves opposite, sometimes minute or 0. owers often — 
showy, white o enish or purplish, i uncled, 
umbellate cymes, rarely solitary. Sepals very shortly connate 
below in a 5-partite calyx, 5-glandular within ; lobes very narrow- 
Petals 5, connate in an elongated tube, straight or curved, usually 
swollen at the base; throat dilated or not; lobes various, broad or 
narrow, erect or incurved, with cohering tips, often ultimately 
recurved or reflexed, valvate in bud: corona adnate to the staminal 
column, annular or cupular, 5-10-lobed, and with 5 long or short 
inner ligulate processes that are free or adnate to the anthers. — 
Stamens 5, adnate to base of corolla-tube ; filaments connate in @ — 
short column; anthers short, obtuse; pollen-masses solitary in — 
each cell, erect, sessile, with one pellucid margin, waxy. Carpels _ 
2, distinct; stigma depressed or shortly 2-lobed, included. Fruit 
of two terete, smooth, usually slender follicles. Seeds comose. 
