The latter appear later than the females : there was full ten 
days between the first opening of the two sexes. 
This genus was named by Dr. Wallich after Mr. Frederick 
Louis Holbeell, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden 
at Copenhagen, “ an experienced botanist, and a contributor 
to Hornemann’s Flora Danie economica.” Dr. Wallich 
also calls him “amicus et preceptor carissimus." It belongs 
to the small order of Lardizabalads, and is the only hardy 
representative of that group. 
Fig. 1. represents a section of one of the male flowers. 
Dr. Wallich gives the following account of the two species 
known to him, viz. 4. latifolia and angustifolia. 
“These two shrubs are easily distinguished from each 
other. The first species is by far the strongest, growing 
sometimes to a gigantic size. 1 brought specimens down with 
me, for the Honourable East India Company's museum, of a 
trunk, as thick as a good sized arm. lts leaves are broad, 
ovate, either ternate or quinate, about as long as the common 
petiole; the flowers quite white, collected in clusters; the 
berries large and ovate, the seeds oblong. The second 
species has long petioled leaves ; the leaflets from seven to 
nine, narrow, or linear-lanceolate, scarcely two-thirds of an 
inch broad; the peduncles few-flowered, and the flowers 
attaining, soon after expansion, a purplish colour ; the ber- 
ries are not so thick, and of an oblong shape; the seeds 
reniform. ‘The natives of Nipal eat the fruit of both plants, 
the pulp of which has a sweetish, but otherwise insipid taste.” 
