Holboellia khasiana T. K. Paul & Nayar in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 27: 105. 1986 & in Fasc. Fl. India 19: 32, f. 6. 1988.

Climbing shrubs, monoecious; bark of mature stems and brancbes striated; apical portions of stems glabrous, often twining. Leaves alternate, digitately 4 - 5-foliolate; petioles 1.5 - 4 cm long; petiolules 4 - 8 mm long; leaflets ovate-elliptic, long acuminate at apex, becoming spinulose in dried leaves, entire and slightly revolute along margins, 3 - 6.5 x 1 - 3 cm, coriaceous, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary, fasciculate racemes, longer than petioles. Flowers unisexual, actinomorphic, bracteate; pedicels 3 - 5 mm long. Sepals 6, biseriate, 5 - 8 x 1 - 3 mm; outer 3 sepals ovate-lanceolate; inner 3 linear, glabrous. Petals 6, minute or indistinct, nectariferous. Male flowers: Stamens 6, free, sessile; anthers ca 2 mm long; pistillodes minute. Female flowers: Staminodes minute. carpels 3, free, about as long as the sepals, oblong, glabrous. Fruits not seen.

Distrib. India: Meghalaya (Khasi hills).

Endemic and rare.

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