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HOLBOLLIA latifolia. 
Broad-leaved Holböllia. 
B 
MUN(ECIA HEXANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LarRDIZABALACEX. (LARDIZABALADS, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 303.) 
HOLBOLLIA, Wall.—Masc. Calyx 6-phyllus, foliolis crassiusculis 
exterioribus ovatis in sestivatione valvatis, interioribus angustioribus, oblongo- 
lanceolatis concavis acuminatis, tenuiter nervatis. Petala 6 biseriata parvula 
scutiformia, carnosa vel lanceolata membranacea. Stamina 6 libera, fila- 
mentis linearibus, crassiusculis, in tubum approximatis, antheris apiculatis. 
Ovariorum rudimenta 3, subulata v. conoidea carnosa.— Fem. Calyx fol. ut 
in masc. Stamina 6 parvula, antheris abortivis, subclavata. Ovaria 5 dis- 
tincta, conoidea v. oblonga, stigmate sessili, conico, subobliquo terminata, 
ovulis numerosis parieti filiformi seriatim immersis. Bacce polysperme, 
stigmate persistente apiculate. Semina subperitropa v. anatropa testa papy- 
racea fusca, hili cicatricula basi et lateraliter notata; perispermum magnum, 
carnoso-corneum, albidum ; embryo parvulus radicula cotyledonibus sub- 
zequali.——Frutices Indici scandentes, magni, gemmiferi, foliis peltatim digi- 
tatis. Racemi azillares, pauciflori, floribus albis extrorsum purpureo-tinctis, 
Jragrantibus. Bacce purpurea esculente.— Decaisne Mémoire sur les Lardi- 
zabalées, p. 193. 
H. latifolia, Wallich Tentamen Flora nepalensis, p. 24. t. 16. Decaisne Mém. 
Lardisab. p. 194. 
Stauntonia latifolia, Wallich Cat. no. 4950. 
For the opportunity of figuring this rare plant we are 
indebted to L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. of Sketty Hall, near Swan- 
sea, with whom it flowered, perhaps for the first time in 
Europe, on a south wall, without protection, in the beginning 
of last March. Other plants, in the stove and conservatory, 
have shewn no disposition to blossom. 
If only as a new hardy or half hardy climber, it is a plant 
of interest, notwithstanding the greenness of its flowers. But 
it is sweet-scented. Mr. Dillwyn informs us that the female 
blossoms have a faint sweet smell, such as is common in flowers 
of the same colour, but this smell is infinitely more powerful 
in the males, which towards sunset fill the air, in favourable 
weather, for several yards around, with a delicious perfume. 
