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oblongis, incumbentibus, radicula tereti supera ad stylum spec- 
tante 4-plo longioribus. 
Frutices scandentes Asia et Africa intertropica ; folia petiolata, 
ovafa,sapius dense pubescentia,Z—^-ner via; paniculse axillares, 
ramosa, folio breviores, rarius longiores ; racemi $ axillares, 
pauciflori. 
1. Holopeira villosa, nob. Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. vii. 42; — Coc- 
culus villosus, DC. Syst. i. 525, Prodr. i. 98; Hook. ^ Th. 
FI. Ind. i. 193; — Cocculus Aristolochise, DC. Syst. i. 520, 
Prodr. i. 97 ; Pluk. Aim. t. 13. f. 2, p. 61, t. 384. f. 5 ; — 
IMenispermum villosum, Lam. Diet. iv. 97 ; Roxb. FI. Ind. 
iii, 812; — Menispermum birsutum, Linn. Sp. 1469 {non 
Roxb.) ; — Menispermum myosotoides, Linn. Sp. 1469 ; — 
ramulis striatis, subglabris, junioribus tomentosis ; foliis 
ovatis ellipticisve, imo subcordatis, rotundatis, obtusis aut 
subcuneatis, apice obtusis, emarginatis et mucronatis, e basi 
5-nerviis, supra puberulis vel hirsutis, subtus dense cano vel 
cinereo tomentosis ; petiolo pubescente, tereti, limbo 5-6-plo 
breviore ; panicula ^ axillari, pubescente, petiolum sequaute, 
apice breviter 3-ramosa, ramis 3-floris, floribus breviter pe- 
dicellatis ; sepalis 6, exterioribus angustioribus, 3 interioribus 
paulo longioribus, cuneato-ovatis, intus puberulis, extus longe 
pilosis ; petalis 6, dimidio brevioribus, fuscis, cuneato-oblongis, 
apice breviter rotundato-bilobatis, lateribus auriculato-lobatis, 
lobis inflexis, lineis interruptis glandulosis pictis, extus lon- 
gissime pilosis ; staminibus 6, petalorum longitudine : pani- 
cula ? axillari, simili, sepalis et petalis ut in staminibus 
effoetis 6, dimidio brevioribus ; ovariis 3, petalis sequilongis ; 
stigmate tereti, crassiusculo, horizontaliter reflexo, apice leviter 
canaliculate. — In Indiae peninsula : v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn., 
Madymangolam (Wall. Cat. 4957 a, g) : in herb. Mus. Brit., 
Mangalore, Mysore (Buchanan) : in herb. Hook., E. Ind. 
(Dr. Carey), Courtallam (H. & Th.) ; $ , Bhorkurheree plains, 
Ganges (Dr. Thomson); ?, Moostaphabad (Dr. Thomson), 
Delhi (Dr. Th. 34), Moorderabad, et $ (Dr. Thomson), 
N.W. India (Boyle), ibidem $ (Boyle). 
A plant which seems abundantly distributed, and to vary in 
the form of its leaves, according to their age : the older ones 
are 3 inches long, 1| inch broad near the base, with a basal 
sinus 1 line deep ; the younger leaves are 1^ inch long, rounded 
at the base, forming a regular oblong oval. There is a specimen 
collected by Dr. Boyle, probably in the Punjab, the leaves of 
w'hich are almost lanceolate, tapering gradually from a rounded 
base to a narrow obtuse apex, 1^1| inch long, 5-7 lines broad 
near the base, on petioles 1^-2 lines long, all more or less pu- 
