Tap. 4536. 
COCCOLOBA MacrRoPHYLLA. 
Large-leaved Sea-side Grape. 
Nat. Ord. Potyconnsx2.—Octanpria (v. Decanprita) TRIGYNTIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Perigonium subcoloratum, quinquepar- 
titum, subzequale, demum increscens. Stamina 8, perigonii laciniis exteriori- 
bus geminatim, interioribus singulatim, opposita, uno inter interiora contigua 
sito: filamenta subulata, basi coherentia; anthere globoso-didyme, versatiles. 
_ Ovarium trigonum, basi cum perigonio connatum, uniloculare. _ Ovw/um unicum, 
basilare, orthotropum. Styli tres, distincti; stigmatibus capitatis. Caryopsis 
triquetra, spongiosa, perigonio baccato tecta partimque connata. Semen trique- 
trum, erectum. 2mbryo in axi albuminis farinacei antitropus; cofyledonibus 
latiusculis undulatis; radicuwla supera.—Arbores Americane ¢ropice ; ramis 
vaginatis, foliis alternis sessilibus v. pedicellatis ochreis herbaceis oblique truncatis, 
racemis v. spicis oppositifoliis elongatis, bracteis ochreis conformibus. Endl. 
CoccoLona macrophylla; subarborea elata erecta glabra stricta, caule sub- 
simplici sulcato, foliis cordato-ovatis acutis amplis sessilibus semiamplexi- 
caulibus reticulatim venosis bullato-rugosis ochreis — magnis — inflatis- 
vaginatis membranaceis demum fuscis, racemo denso spicato elongato 
simplici terminali, floribus copiosissimis (rubris), perianthiis 4—6-lobis, 
staminibus 8-12. % 
Cocco.LosBa macrantha, Desf. (Steud. Nomencl. Bot.) 
One of the most striking plants which has flowered in the 
great stove of the Royal Gardens during the year 1850, is that 
here represented, of which plants were long received from 
Paris, under the name of Coccoloba macrophylla of Desfontaines, 
a name which we can find nowhere published save in the two 
editions of Steudel’s valuable Nomenclator; but there its na- 
tive locality is marked as unknown. ‘This is probably South 
America, where the maximum of the species are to be found. 
The name is far from appropriate, for the leaves yield greatly 
in size to the C. pubescens (Bot. Mag. t. 3166), the latter being 
three or four times the size of the present. Our plant, however, 
equals the pubescens in height (our largest plant being twenty- 
three feet high) : it tapers gracefully upwards, is leafy all the way 
up, and terminated at the top by a dense compact thick club- 
shaped raceme of flowers, of which the rachis, pedicels, and flowers 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1850. 
