Dischidia
(from dischides, twice-cleft; referring to the bifid segments of the corona). ORD. Asclepiadeae. A genus of stove evergreen perennial trailers. There are about twenty-four species, natives of the East Indies, Malayan Archipelago, and tropical Australia. Flowers white or red, small, sub-umbellate. Leaves opposite, roundish, thick, fleshy. Stems rooting at the joints. For culture, see Hoya.
D. benghalensis (Bengalese). fl., corollas small, urceolate; umbels few-flowered, from alternate axils, on short peduncles. September. l. oblong-lanceolate, two-edged, flat. India, 1818. (B. M. 2916.) D. nummularia (Moneywort-leaved). fl. very small, in little sessile, axillary or interpetiolar clusters; calyx segments minute, corolla under one-and-a-half 1ines long; tube inflated; lobes narrow, longer than the tube; corona segments subulate. August. l. on very short petioles, nearly orbicular, thick, fleshy, not exceeding 1/2in. in diameter. h. 6in. Queensland. A succulent milky-juiced epiphyte, more or less mealy-white.