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short trunk, its branches being pendulous and sometimes sar- 
mentous. It is distinguished by its bright-green, polished, 
lanceolate leaves, which are noted for their three long principal 
nerves parallel with the margin and extending far towards the 
apex, where they anastomose with a few short nerves branehing 
from the midrib. The leaves are 4-5| inches long, 1-1| inch 
broad, acute at both extremities, on a petiole 3-5 lines long, all 
quite glabrous. The panicles are very numerous, especially on 
the young branches, where they form a thyrse-like infloreseence; 
the flowers are small and glabrous. 
8. Holopeira Australis, nob. ; — Menispermum Australe, Zucc. 
MS. ; — ramulis striatis, glabris, nigris ; foliis oblongis, imo 
cuneatis, a medio sursum attenuatis, valde acutis, cuspidato- 
mucronatis, e basi 3-nerviis, nervis margin! parallelis et ultra 
medium productis, lateralibus supra medium ortis, utrinque 
plurimis, divaricatis, mox inter se anastomosantibus, venis 
crebre transversis, valde reticulatis, marginibus cartilagineis 
valde reflexis, utrinque lucidis, pallide viridibus, concoloribus, 
glaberrimis, nervis venisque supra fere immersis, subtus cras- 
sioribus et prominentibus ; petiolo glabro, sulcato-striato, 
superne canaliculato, limbo 10-15-plo breviore : panicula ^ 
axillari, brevi, ramosa, petiolo 2-plo longiore ; ramis paueis, 
alternis, brevibus, imo bracteolatis, apice flores 3 breviter pe- 
dicellatos gerentibus; sepalis 6, imo 2-bracteatis, ovatis, car- 
nosis, mai’ginibus membranaceis et pellucido punctatis; pe- 
talis 6, sepalis dimidio vel triplo brevioribus, subrhomboideis, 
imo cuneatis, ultra medium in dentes 4 majusculos pro- 
fundiuscule incisis, dentibus subsequalibus, aeute 3-anguiari- 
bus, 2 intermediis erectis, lateralibus inflexis; staminibus 6, 
petalis 2-plo longioribus, filamentis compressis, submembra- 
naceis. — In Java et Japonia : v. s. in herb. Hook. J', Java 
(Lobb), Java (Horsfield, 245), Japonia (De Vriesse) : in herb. 
DeCand. ^ (Zollinger, 1640), $ (Zollinger, 3184) : in herb. 
Lindley. (J, Japonia ? (Siebold). (Annol840,in hort. Monach. 
cult, sub nom. a Zuccarini impositum “ Menispermum Aus- 
trale.”) 
The last-mentioned specimen appears to have been cultivated 
in Munich, from a plant brought from Japan by Siebold; and 
with this I find the dried specimens from Java quite correspond. 
Though mueh resembling the preceding Nepal species in general 
appearance, it differs in having much broader, more coriaceous 
leaves, and a much shorter inflorescence, in whieh the flower is 
somewhat larger; its sepals are ovate, fleshy, and pellucid- 
punctate ; and its petals are somewhat angularly 4-lobed at the 
summit, the lateral lobes being inflected, and they are quite de- 
