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Hoya (To the species described on pp)

To the species described on pp. 155-6, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

H. gonolobioides (Gonolobus-like). fl. brownish, rotate, with ovate, obtuse lobes, umbellate; peduncles hispid. l. membranous, cordate-ovate, acuminate, hairy on both sides. Stem fulvous-hispid, climbing. India (?), 1884. A distinct plant.

H. Griffithii (Dr. W. Griffith's). fl. externally pale and rather dull rose-red, with yellowish edges, paler and yellowish within, with three faint pink stripes on each segment, 1in. to 1 1/2in. in diameter, numerous, umbellate on a stout peduncle 1in. to 1 1/2in. long. July. l. in distant pairs, 4in. to 10in. long, very shortly petiolate, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate. Stem flexuous, climbing. Eastern Bengal, 1885. (B. M. 6877.) H. linearis sikkimensis (Sikkim). fl. waxy-white, pentagonally five-lobed, nearly 1/2in. in diameter, in terminal, ten to thirteen-flowered umbels. l. soft, fleshy, terete, hairy. Stems weak and flaccid, pendulous, slender, softly hairy. Sikkim, 1883. A good basket plant. (B. M. 6682; G. C. n. s., xx., pp. 8-9.) H. longifolia Shepherdi (long-leaved, Shepherd's). fl. pale flesh-coloured, 1/2in. in diameter, disposed in globose umbels. l. linear-oblanceolate, acute, 5in. to 7in. long, 1/2in. broad. Sikkim, 1885. A beautiful plant. (G. C. n. s., xxiv., p. 616.)