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bescent ; but I can perceive no difference in the structure of the 
flowers. The panicles, both ^ and ? , are not more than 3 lines 
long in each axil ; but as these approach the end of the branch, 
owing to the fall or deficiency of the leaves, the branch assumes 
the appearance of a long slender terminal raceme ; the sepals 
are pubescent inside, thickly pilose outside; the petals are 
more than half their length, narrowly oblong, having a sharply 
cuneated base, with long, subobtuse, erect apical lobes, shortish 
inflected lateral lobes, and clothed outside, especially towards 
the base, with long, spreading, pilose hairs; they are somewhat 
thick and fuscous, marked with very dark lines, and are alto- 
gether very different from those of the following species. The 
putamen is pale yellow, crustaceous in texture, with a very thin, 
broad, laminated peripheric ridge, and a large open condyle, 
with broad apertures and a large hole in the middle of the thin 
lamina which separates its two hollow chambers. 
2. Holopeira Iceviuscula, nob. ; — Menispermum hirsutum, Roxb. 
[non Linn.) FI. Ind. iii. 814; — Cocculus sepium, Caleb. Linn. 
Trans, xiii. 58, tab. 6. fig. 2; — raraulis tenuibus, scandenti- 
bus, cano pubescentibus ; foliis oblongis, in adultis imo cor- 
datis (in junioribus obtusis), e basi 5-nerviis, supra glabrius- 
culis (in junioribus tomentosis), subtus cano vel flavido 
tomentosis; petiolo tenui, cano tomentoso, limbo 6-plo bre- 
viore : panicula J'axillari, brevissima, petiolum sequante, pauci- 
flora; sepalis cuneato-oblongis, extus longe pilosis, intus 
glabris ; petalis cuneato-ovatis et fere rhomboideis, lobis api- 
calibus late rotundatis, lateralibus perspicue auriculatis, in- 
flexis, basalibus nullis, pallidis, oranino glabris; filamentis 
glabris : ? panicula simillima, sepalis et petalis marium, illis 
pilosis, his glaberrimis ; ovariis 3, glabris, gynsecio piloso 
insitis. — In Iqdiaorientali : v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn., hort. Calc, 
cult. (Wall. Cat. 4957), ibidem (4957 b, c,D,E,r): in herb. Mas. 
Brit., Ind. or. (Konig), (Wight, 42) ; ^ (Roxb. sub Men. 
hirsutum) : in herb. Lemann., Aurungabad (Griffiths) ; Sum- 
buhlpoor (Griffiths) : in herb. Hook., Soane River (Hook. 208) ; 
cj et $ , Concan (Law). 
Roxburgh, in describing this species at full length, was right 
in keeping it distinct from his Menispermum villosum. Cole- 
brook^s description is verbatim that of Roxburgh’s. There is 
little difference in the size and shape of the leaves ; but in the 
flowers, both male and female, the petals are always paler, much 
shorter, broader, and nearly rhomboid, more transparent, marked 
with yellowish glands, the apical lobes broader and more obtuse ; 
they are, besides, invariably destitute of hairs — a very marked 
distinction. The putamen is less ci’ustaceous in texture, similar 
