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shaped: stamens 6, in the male flowers opposite the sepals and 
petals :/ filaments free ér combined into a tube: anthers free, 
adnate, exttorse: ovaries 3, rarely 6-9, linear-oblong, 1-celled : 
ovules ‘numerous: carpels large, as many as the ovaries, pulpy, 
indehiscent or dehiscent lengthwise . within, follicular, many- 
seeded: albumen copious, oily. 
GENUS I. PARVATYA, 
Diccia Monadelphia. Sez: Syst: 
, 
Gen. Cwar. Sepals 6, in two rows, outer row valvate in wsti- 
vation: petals 6, lanceolate, much smaller than the sepals: stamens 
monadel phous in the males with a connectivum apiculated beyond 
the oblong anthers, in the females less free and abortive: ovaries 
3, ovoid, apiculated with the acute oblong style: ovules scattered, 
immersed in hairs, 
(1) P. Brunonrana, (Decaisne.) 
Ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p, 214. 
Syn. Stauntonia Brunoniana, Wall. 
Srec. Cuar. Climbing: branchlets purple :. leaves long-petiol- 
ed, petioles thickened at the base: leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, obtusely or sharply acuminated, rarely obtuse, glabrous, glau- 
cous below : peduncles axillary, fascicled, inserted on a scaly 
tubercle, flexuose, slender: pedicels long, furnished with a linear 
membranaceous bracteole: female flowers nearly twice as large as 
the males : carpels ovoid: seeds nestling in pulp. 
Khasia hills, flowering in October. 
GENUS I. HOLBOLLIA. 
Moneecia Hexandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Named after F. L. Holbdll, Superintendent of the 
Botanic Gardens at Copenhagen. 
Grn. Cuar. Sepals 6, in two rows: petals 6, scale-like: stamens 
free: anthers linear, extrorsely 2-celled: ovaries (rudimentary in 
the males) linear-oblong, filled with pulp, terminated by the oblong 
stigma: ovules numerous, immersed in hairs: carpels indehiscent, 
baccate: seeds solitary in the cells. 
