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cronatis, e basi longe 3-nerviis, cum nervulis 2 alteris mox 
evanescentibus aut inconspicuis, utrinque concoloribus, supra 
glabris, in nervis sulcato-immersis puberulis, subtus in nervis 
pubescentibus, marginibus revolutis, subciliolatis ; petiolo 
tenui, puberulo, limbo 5-7-plo breviore : panicula supra- 
axillari, petiolo longiore, pubescente; pedunculo petiolum 
aequantCj apice 3-ramoso, ramis pedicellos 1-floros 4-6 brac- 
teolatos gerentibus ; sepalis 6, ellipticis, subglabris, margine 
ciliolatis, bracteis minoribus 1-2 circumdatis ; petalis 6, 
paulo minoribus, lineari-oblongis, apice in lacinias 2 acutis- 
simas incisis, fuscis. — In ins. Sandwicensibus : v. s. in kerb. 
De Candolle., Owhyhee (Gaud.); in herb. Mus. Brit., Owhyhee 
(Cook, Third Voy.). 
This species may be recognized by its more or less lanceolate 
leaves. It must not be mistaken for Holopeira lonckophylla, 
from Oahu, to which it bears some external resemblance, 
and with which it has been confounded. Its leaves in the 
typical specimens are acute at the base, 2^ inches long, 8- 
10 lines broad, on a petiole 4 lines long. In Capt. Cookes 
specimens they are nearly the same length, but 10-12 lines 
broad, on a petiole 5 lines long. The peduncle is 4 lines long, 
its branches 5 lines long, bearing about six alternate pedicels 
^ line long. The drupes are glabrous, with a putamen 2^- 
2J lines in diameter. 
36. Holopeira. 
In describing Cocculus and Nephroica, with which Holopeira 
has been amalgamated by the authors of the ‘ Flora Indica^ and 
the ‘ Genera Plantarum,'* I have stated many of the reasons for 
maintaining their separate integrity. Holopeira is distinguished 
from those genera by its broader oblong petals, which are cu- 
neate at base, always obtusely and in a minor degree cleft or only 
emarginate at the apex (not entire as in Cocculus, and not ex- 
tremely acute and deeply incised as in Nephroica), and by their 
lateral lobes springing from the middle on each side (not basal, 
as in those genera) : the stigma is more or less elongated, sud- 
denly reflected over the apex of the ovary, channelled above, with 
crenately inflected margins, and truncated at the extremity: in 
Nephroica the sepals and petals are .quite glabrous, in Holo- 
peira they are frequently clothed with very long sericeous hairs. 
But the chief distinction, one of manifest structural difFerence, 
lies in the very peculiar form of its putamen, which is pale, often 
thinly crustaceous, orbicular, somewhat flattened on the oppo- 
site faces, and there marked with numerous radiating, finely 
