[Plate 45.] 
THE TAPEEING SOLLBULLIA. 
(HOLLEOLLIA ACUMINATA.) 
A half-hardy evergreen GUinher.from the NouTii of IsmA^ belonging to thenatural order of L\Kmi\}ikLM>s. 
THE TAPERING HOLLBOLLIA. Leaflets ternate and HOLLBOLLIA ACUMINATA ; folioHs ternatis quinatisq. 
coriaceis oblongo-lanceolatis acuniinatis, peduuculis 
quinate, leathery, oblong-lanceolate, taper-pointed. Flower- 
stalks shorter than the leaf-stalks. Sepals very acute. 
petiolis brevioribus, sepalis acutissimis. 
HoUboUia acuminata : Lindley in the Journal of the HoHkultxcral Society y vol. ii., p. 4 
Tn the mountain woods of Nepal grow two stout cliinbing shrubs named HoUboUia^ by Dr. "\Vallich^ 
after Mr. Trederick Louis Holboell, Superintendent of the Eoyal Botanic Garden at Copeiiliagen, 
'^ an experienced botanist^ and a contributor to Hornemann's Flora Daiiige oeconomica/* Dr.WaUich 
also calls him '' amicus et prseceptor carissimus/'' They belong, with a few other plants, to a small 
natural order named Lardizabalads, the type of which is a Peruvian climber called Lardizabala 
hiternata. Of these HoUboUias, the "BroadJeaved and the Narrow-leaved^ the first has been figured 
in the Botanical Hegider^ for 1846, t. 49. The Narrow-leaved does not seem to be in cultivation. 
WaUich 
shrubs 
from each other. The first 
strongest growing sometimes to a gigantic size. I brought specimens down with me, for the 
Honourahle East India Company's museum, of a trunk, as thick as a good sized arm. Its leaves 
are broad, ovate, either ternate or quinate, about as long as the common petiole, the flowers quite 
clusters 
The 
long petioled leaves ; the leaflets from seven to nine, narrow, or linear-lanceolate, scarcely two- 
tliirds of an inch broad ; the peduncles few flowered, and the flowers attaining, soon after expansion, 
a purplish colour; the berries are not so thick, and of an oblong shape; the seeds reniform. The 
natives of Nepal eat the fruit of both plants, the pulp of which has a sweetish^ but 
taste.'' Mr, Griffith found EollbdUia latlfolia in woods near Churra and Moosmai 
mountains, and confirms Dr. WallicVs account of the fruit, wliich he calls " Bacoc 
oblonj^rae albse purpureo tinctse. — Itinerary Notes, p. 36. 
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