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are 2-2^ inches long, Ij-l^ ™ch broad: the rachis of the $ 
raceme is 3-5 lines long, the pedicels 1 line long, with their 
basal bracts puberulous ; the floral bract is smaller than the 
sepals, all with ciliate margins ; the petals, half the length of the 
glabrous sepals, are somewhat truncated at the apex, with a 
minute tooth at each angle, the interval between them being 
erose, and they have a small lateral lobe on each side a little 
below the middle, but not inflected. This and two others are 
the only species in the genus with six ovaries in the $ flower. 
7. Holopeira laurifolia, nob. ; — Menispermum laurifolium, Roxb. 
FI. Ind. iii. 815; — Cocculus laurifolius, DC. Syst. i. 530, 
Prodr. i. 100 ; Deless. Icon. i. t. 97 ; Coleb. Linn. Trans. 
xiii. 65 ; Hook. ^ Th. FI. Ind. i. 191 ; — erecta, ramulis de- 
pendentibus, subangulatis, striatis, glabris; folds lanceolatis, 
utrinque attenuato-acutis, apice acutissimis et mucronatis, e 
basi 3-nerviis, nervis lateralibus margine parallelis et longe 
ultra medium productis, cum nervis alternis apicem versus 
utrinque 3, brevibus, divaricatis et arcuatim nexis, venisque 
plurimis transversim divaricatis et parallelis, valde reticulatis, 
marginibus cartilagineis subreflexis, utrinque nitidis et glaber- 
rimis, subtus paulo pallidioribus, nervis prominulis, venis 
subimmersis; petiolo brevi, subtenui, infra carinato, supra 
canaliculato, glabro, limbo 12-plo breviore: paniculis ^ race- 
mosis, supra-axillaribus, folio brevioribus, solitariis, vel ssepius 
2-3 fasciculatis, aut apice ramorum foliis abortis in thyrsum 
majusculum copiosiflorum productis; rachi striata, glabra; 
ramis subbrevibus, alternis aut approximatis, imo fasciculo 
pilorum bracteolatis, apice 3-4-floris ; floribus brevissi'me pe- 
dicellatis et corymbulosis ; sepalis 9, submembranaceis, gla- 
bris, quorum 3 exteriora multo minora, bracteiformia, 3 in- 
teriora obovata, submembranacea, glabra, majora; petalis 6, 
squamiformibus, sepalis 5-plo brevioribus, cuneato-deltoideis, 
apice lobis 2 latis nonnihil divaricatis et introflexis emargi- 
natis, lobis basalibus nullis; staminibus sepalis aequilongis, 
petalis 4-plo longioribus : racemis $ similibus ; petalis sub- 
squamiformibus, imo cuneatis, apice latiusculis et in lobos 2 
rotundatos breviter fissis; staminibus efiPoetis petalis sequi- 
longis, apice emarginatis; ovariis 3, gibboso-ovatis, glabris, 
gynsecio elevato insitis, stylo longissimo, repente deflexo, supra 
late canaliculato ; drupis 3, subglobosis pisi magnitudinis ; 
putamine trochleseformi, peripheria subplano, condylo fere 
central! 2-camerato, foraminibus 3 parallelis subparvis perfo- 
rate. — ^In Himalaya subtropica : v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn, et 
aliorum, Nepal (Wall. Cat. 4965 A et c b $ ). 
This species is described as an erect tree or shrub, with a 
