Summary[edit] Description: English: First description of Hoya linearis and Hoya lanceolata: page 130 from Prodromus florae Nepalensis :sive Enumeratio vegetabilium quae in itinere per Nepaliam proprie dictam et regiones conterminas, ann. 1802—1803. Detexit atque legit d. d. Franciscus Hamilton, (olim Buchanan) Accedunt plantae a. d. Wallich nuperius missae /Secundem methodi naturalis normam disposuit atque descripsit David Don. Londini : J. Gale, 1825. Date: 1825. Source: http://www.botanicus.org/title/b11715108. Author: David Don (1799—1841).