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ficient of the basal auricular lobes existing in Nephroica. Its 
leaves are 2^-4|- inches long, 13-17 lines broad, on a petiole 
3 lines long. The ^ panicle is 3-6 lines long; the rachis is 
somewhat slender, striated, glabrous; its alternate branches, 
1 line long, are also glabrous, the bracteoles alone being pilose ; 
the pedicels 1 line long. 
9. Holopeira fusiformis, nob. ; — ramis strictis, foliis late fusi- 
formi-oblongis, utrinque valde acutis, apicem versus constrictis 
et breviter acute acuminatis, e basi 3-nerviis, nervis ultra 
medium margin! parallelis cum nervis alteris paucis e costa 
divergentibus inter se curvatim nexis, venis transversim pa- 
rallelis, valde reticulatis, utrinque glaberrimis, supra lucidulis; 
petiolo brevi, glabro, limbo 12-plo breviore : panieula^J axil- 
lari, puberula, petiolo sequilonga, ramosa ; ramis imo bracteo- 
latis, flores 3 pedicellatos bracteolatos gerentibus ; floribus 
glabris ; sepalis 9, ruguloso-bullatis, extus gradatim minori- 
bus, exterioribus bracteiformibus, 3 interioribus orbiculatis, 
subplanis, carnosis, margine membranaceis et pellucido punc- 
tatis; petalis 6, minimis, 6-plo brevioribus, carnosulis, cu- 
neato-oblongis, apice profunde emarginatis aut obtuse sub- 
2-lobis, concavis, lobis basalibus nullis ; staminibus 6, pe- 
talis subamplexis et paulo longioribus : paniculis $ petiolo 
aequilongis ; sepalis petalisque marium similibus ; staminibus 
sterilibus 6, brevibus; ovariis 3, gynsecio stipitato insitis, 
gibboso-ovatis ; stylo ovarii fere longitudine, latiusculo, pro- 
funde canaliculate, subito reflexo et curvato. — In Java : v. s. 
in herb. Mus. Brit. (Horsfield). 
This species, with mueh the character of the two preceding, 
has its leaves still broader, and is distinguished from both by 
the minute sizCj and especially by the shape, of its petals. Its 
leaves are 4-4^ inches long, If-lg inch broad, on a petiole 
3-4 lines long. The panicle is 6 lines long, with about six 
alternate very short branches, less than a line in length, and 
each bearing three nearly sessile flowers on its apex : the $ pani- 
cles are of the same length, with the same number of branches 
and flowers. 
37. Diploclisia. 
This genus was proposed by me, in 1851, for a small set of 
plants of which the Cocculus macrocarpus, W. & A., is the type. 
It differs from Cocculus, Nephroica, and Holopeira in habit and 
the structure of its putamen and seed. These differences are so 
manifest that it is difScult to conceive how it was possible that 
such experienced botanists as the authors of the ‘ Flora Indica ^ 
