Crossword-Solution: HOYA 4 letters, 50 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

With _Hoya carnosa_, on the other hand, a depending shoot, without any developed leaves, 32 inches in length, and consisting of seven internodes (a minute terminal one, an inch in length, being counted), continually, but slowly, swayed from side to side in a semicircular course, with the extreme internodes making complete revolutions.

There is no difficulty in understanding how a spirally twining plant could graduate into a simple root-climber; for the young internodes of _Bignonia Tweedyana_ and of _Hoya carnosa_ revolve and twine, but likewise emit rootlets which adhere to any fitting surface, so that the loss of twining would be no great disadvantage and in some respects an advantage to these species, as they would then ascend their supports in a more direct line.

The woods were full of a wonderfully beautiful creeper, a delicate pink and white _clerodendron_ which grew in large bunches; there was also a very pretty _hoya_ (wax flower) scrambling up the trees.

The city of Baza was situated in a great valley, eight leagues in length and three in breadth, called the Hoya, or Basin, of Baza.

Hoya, heavy and indolent, trails across and dangles from the rocks; the river mangrove dispenses its sweetness in an unexpected locality; and from the heart of the jungle come wafts of warm breath, which, mingling with exhalation from foliage and flower, is diffused broadcast.