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apice gerente ; sepalis 6, ovatis, 3 interioribus duplo majori- 
bus, glabris, carnosis, margiuibus membranaceis et ciliolatis ; 
petalis 6, oblongis, fuscis, carnosulis, apice breviter divari- 
catiin 2-dentatis, marginibus ad medium inflexis, lobis basali- 
bus nullis; ovariis 6, glabris; putamine paulo compresso, 
trochleseformi, condylo subceiitrali, 2-camerato, foraminibus 3 
parvis perforate. — In insulis Sandwicensibus: v. s. in herb. 
Hook. $ , Hue-hue (Hildebrandt, 135); Ohahu (Seemann, 
2281). 
The plants above noticed have both been referred to Cocculus 
Ferrandianus, but they do not accord with Gaudichaud’s original 
species of that name, which belongs to the genus Nephroica ; 
they differ not only in the form of the petals, but in the shape 
of the leaves, which are not lanceolate and acute at both ex- 
tremities ; in Dr. Seemann’s specimen they are broadly obovate, 
and round at the base : they ai’e 2-2| inches long, inch 
broad, on a petiole 6 lines lone;. The peduncle of the raceme is 
3 lines, the pedicels 2 lines long; the drupes are fleshy; the 
putamen has a broad periphery, is rugosely scrobiculated on the 
surface, with two small external apertures in the condyle, the 
intermediate foramen being small but distinct, as in the three 
following species. This and the next species differ from all the 
preceding in having six ovaries, instead of three, in the ? flower. 
6. Holopeira fecunda, nob. ; — ramulis albido pubescentibus ; 
foliis oblongo-ovatis, imo rotundatis, apice breviter et repente 
constrictis, acumine obtuso, mucronulato, e basi 5-nerviis, 
utrinque subnitentibus, in nervis venisque reticulatis pube- 
rulis, marginibus vix revolutis, subtus paulo pallidioribus ; 
petiolo tenui, cinereo pubescente, limbo 4-plo breviore; ra- 
cemis $ e pulvino piloso, supra-axillaribus, solitariis, petiolo 
sublongioribus, cinereo puberulis, 3-6-floris ; pedicellis al- 
ternis, imo bracteolatis, peduuculo dimidio vel triplo breviori- 
bus, floribus bractea donatis ; sepalis 6, ovatis, submembrana- 
ceis, glabris, 3 interioribus paulo majoribus, glabris, 3 exte- 
rioribus interdum bracteaque margine ciliatis ; petalis 6, 
dimidio brevioribus, submem branaceis, apice truncatis et ob- 
solete 2-denticulatis, lobis lateralibus parvis, non inflexis ; 
staminibus sterilibus 6, petalis dimidio brevioribus ; ovariis 6, 
glabris ; stylo brevi ; stigmate longo, horizontaliter reflexo.-^ 
Patria ignota : v. s. in heib. meo (Hort. Kew. cult.). 
This plant I collected many years ago in Kew Gardens ; but 
how long it had grown there, or whence it came, no one could 
tell : it was probably introduced in the time of Ayton. The 
branches are slender, with axils 1-2^ inches apart ; the leaves 
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