By Mr. James Traill. 



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I. HOYA CARNOSA. 



The following are the names by which this plant has been 

 published by different authors, with references to their res- 

 pective works. 



Asclepias carnosa, Linn.JiL Suppl. I. p. 170. Murr. Syst. 

 Veg. Edit. 14. p. 260. Willd. Sp. Plant Vol i. p. 1264. 

 Sims Bot. Mag. tab. 788. Smith Exot. Bot. Vol ii. p. 21. 

 Tab. 70. Persoon Synopsis, Vol. i. p. 275. 



Hoya carnosa, Brown in Wern. Trans. Vol. i. p. 27. 

 Hortus Kewensis, Edit. alt. Vol. ii. p. 84. Haworth Sy- 

 nopsis Plant. Succ. p. 14. Rcemer et Schultes Syst. Veg. 

 Vol. vi. p. 50. Sprengel Syst. Veg. Vol. i. p. 843. 



Schollia crassifolia. Jacquin, Eclog. Vol. i. p. 5. tab. 2. 



Schollia carnosa, Schrank according to Steudel. 



This plant is a native of China, and perhaps also of the 

 neighbouring parts of Asia. It was first introduced to this 

 country from China into the Royal Gardens at Kew in 1802, 

 as appears by the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis 

 above referred to. The Honourable Mrs. Barrington pos- 

 sessed it about the same period, in her garden at Mongewell, 

 in Oxfordshire, (having received it from the vicinity of the 

 Straits of Sunda,) from whence it was figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine in 1804, and in the succeeding year in the Exotic 

 Botany of Sir James Edward Smith. It was sent from this 

 country by Sir Joseph Banks to the Baron Jacquin, for the 

 Garden at Schonbrunn, in which it blossomed for the first 

 time in 1809. 



The stem is rather darker than others of the genus. The 

 leaves are from two to three inches long, ovate, bluntly 

 acuminate, slightly revolute, pale whitish-green beneath, 



