ON THE ASCLEPIADE^E. 



and successful cultivator, have been long known 

 to the botanists of this country. I have ad- 

 ded specific characters of the only two species 

 with which I am acquainted; but Hoy a car- 

 nosa probably includes several species, which 

 can only be determined from living speci- 

 mens : it is also to be considered as the type 

 of the genus, Hoy a viridiflora differing in 

 some degree in the structure of its corona, and 

 considerably in habit. 



H. carnosa i foliis ovali-oblongis earnosis, corol- 

 lis barbatis, coronas foliolis subtus sulcatis ! 



Asclcpias carnosa, Linn, suppl. 170. Murr. syst* veg 9 

 ed, 14. p. 260. Willd. sp. pi. 1. p. 1264. Pers* 

 syn. J. p. 275. Sims in hot, mag%. t. 788. Smith, 

 exot. hot* 2. p. 21. t. Jo* 



Stapelia Chinensis, Lout. Cochin. iJ p. 205. fide 

 specim. ab auctore missi in Herb. Banks. 



Hab. In Asiae tropicae variis regionibus, etiam in 

 N6va Hollandia (ubi et in horU Angl. v. v.) 



H. viridiflora, foliis ovatis acuminatis mem- 

 bran aceis corollisque glabris, coronas foliolis 

 exsulcis. 



Asclepias volubilis, Linn* suppl. 170*. Willd. sp. 



pi. 1. p. 1269. Pers. syn. i»/>. 276. 

 Watta-haka-codi, Rheed. Malab. 9. p. 25. t. 15. 

 Hab. Inter frutices in nemorosis Zeylonae, J. G» 



Kcenig, in Herb. Banks, (ubi v. s.) 



