— 
f 
‘Jacquin, in others C. microstachya of Willdenow. 
1816 
* COCCOLÓBA virens. 
Green Sea-side Grape. 
OCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA, 
Nat. ord. PoLYGONACEE. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 221.) 
COCCOLOBA, L. Calyx 5-partitus, semi-inferus, laciniis imbricatis ; 
in fructu incrassatus baccans. Stamina 7-10 serie simplici fauce inserta, fila- 
mentis basi in urceolum brevissimum coalitis. Ovarium semi-superum, trigynum ; 
stigmatibus spathulatis nune lobulatis. Achenium basi lobatum, osseum, calyce 
baccato tectum. Frutices arboresve minores, occidentales. Flores racemosi. 
Fructus subacidi, edules. 
C. virens; foliis ovato-lanceolatis obtusis basi in petiolum angustatis, racemis 
nutantibus, floribus decandris. 
Folia omnind depilata, ovato-lanceolata, semper basi angustata nec ullo 
modo basi obtusa vel cordata ; omnia conformia. Racemi virides, nutantes, 
foliis minoribus equales. 
The species of Coccoloba are so ill defined in books that 
it is by no means easy in the absence of fruit to determine 
This in some respects resembles C. ig oae of 
rom the 
former it differs in the form of its leaves, from the latter in 
their size and proportion to the racemes. 
A hothouse plant, communicated from Wormleybury by 
Sir Abraham Hume, with whom it flowered in August 
1833. It was called C. excoriata, which is a very different 
plant. 
We are unacquainted with its native country, but presume 
it to be the West Indies. 
them. 
* From xorxoc a fruit (in this case seed) and Aoßoc a lobe, in allusion to the 
lobed seeds. 
