( 2970 2971 ) 
CoccuLus PALMATUS. CoLUMBO PLANT. 
SEEK EK KEKE KEE EEE EEE REE 
Class and Order. 
Diacia Hexanpria. 
( Nat. Ord —Menispermex. Juss. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala et Petala ordine ternario, bi- rarissime triserialia. 
Stam. 6, libera, petalis opposita. Carpella 3—6. Drupe 
baccate, 1—6, sepius oblique, reniformes, subcompresse, 
monosperme. Cotyledones distantes. De Cand. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Coccutus * palmatus; foliis basi cordatis palmatim 5—7 
fidis subpilosis lobis acuminatis integerrimis, caule 
germinibusque piloso-glandulosis. 
Coccutus palmatus. De Cand. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 523. 
Kjusd. Prodr. v. 1. p. 98. ; 
MENIsPeRMUM palmatum. Lam. Dict. v. 4.p.99. Willd. 
Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 825. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 154. 
Berry in As. Res. (ed. 8vo.) v. 10. p. 389. 
Descr. Root perennial, composed of a number of fasci- 
culated, fusiform, somewhat branched, fleshy, curved, and 
descending tubers, of the thickness of an infant’s arm, 
clothed with a thin, brown epidermis, marked, towards the 
upper part especially, with transverse warts ; internally 
they consist of a deep yellow, scentless, very bitter flesh, 
lled with numerous parallel, longitudinal fibres or vessels. 
Stems annual, herbaceous, one or two proceeding from the 
same root, about the thickness of the little finger, twining, 
simple 
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er ane 
is From the Greek xoxxos, a name given to the kermes of the Oak, which 
the fruit of the original Coccu.us somewhat resembled. 
