By Mr. James Traill. 



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the first called Stapelia Chinensis, the latter Stapelia Cochin- 

 chinensis, the first from Canton, the last from the mountains 

 of Cochinchina. Upon an examination of the description 

 of the flowers of the S. Cochinchinensis, that plant evidently 

 belongs to another genus distinct from either Hoya or As- 

 clepias. The flowers of the specimen are certainly those of 

 a Hoya, and therefore cannot belong to Loureiro's S. Co- 

 chinchinensis ; the branch and leaves may be those of his 

 S. Cochinchinensis, for they agree with the description ; the 

 flowers and branch of the specimen perhaps therefore belong 

 to different plants. The flower is not that of H. carnosa, and 

 may possibly be from the plant which Loureiro calls S. 

 Chinensis, and if so, that species must be considered as 

 distinct from H. carnosa, and this supposition is further con- 

 firmed by the consideration of Loureiro's description of the 

 leaves of S. Chinensis, which he makes lanceolate, whilst those 

 of H. carnosa are ovate. The leaves attached to the branch 

 in the specimen are shaped like those of H. carnosa, but they 

 are nearly sessile, so that were they belonging to Hoya, they 

 could not be referred to H. carnosa, whose leaves have long 

 peduncles. The result of this examination which Mr. Brown 

 has been so obliging to make for me, therefore, is, that the 

 S. Chinensis of Loureiro is not H. carnosa, but another 

 species of Hoya, perhaps not since observed. 



The Hoya carnosa has occasionally produced ripe seeds in 

 this country, from some of which young plants have been 

 obtained. One, which was raised in the garden of Charles 

 Hampden Turner, Esq. of Rooksnest, in Surrey, (by whom it 

 has been presented to the garden of the Horticultural Society) 

 has somewhat paler flowers with smaller and thinner leaves. 



