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_ CoccoLopa PuBEscENsS. Downy, or Great-LEAvEI 
Sra-stpE Grape. Leather-coat Tree. 
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Class and Order. 
OcranpriA TRyayni. 
( Nat. Ord.—Potyeonea. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium 5-partitum corollatum. Nux monosperma 
perianthio baccato tecta. : ? 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Coccotoza* pubescens ; foliis orbiculato-cordatis maximis 
subsessilibus infra pubescentibus, racemis fructiferis 
erectis (?). ; 
Coccorogza pubescens. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 523. Willd. Sp. 
Pl. 0.2, p. 457. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 421. 
Spreng. Syst. Veget. 0. 2.p.252. ney 
CoccoLopa grandifolia ; foliis subrotundis, integerrimis, ru- 
gosis. Jacq. Amer. 113. Be ee er 
Scortia, arbor Americana amplissimis foliis aversa parte 
nervis extentibus hirsutie ferruginea refertis. Leather- 
coat Tree Barbadensibus nostris. Pluk. Phyt. Tab. 
222. fig. 8. pessime. 
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Descr. According to Jacquin, this becomes an ineligant, 
upright Tree, between sixty and eighty feet in height, 
dividing aboye into not more than two or three bran ches. 
Leaves very large, some of which attain to two feet in dia- 
meter, orbicular with a cordate base, entire, dark green and 
glossy above, covered with more or less of a short, fer- 
ie down beneath, where the nerves are of a lighter 
colour, and very prominent. The whole leaf strongly reti- 
culated. There is scarcely any petiole, but at the base of 
the disk, which is formed by the confluence of the nerves, 
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* xonnos, seed, and roBos, @ lobe: from the lobed seed, not fruit, as stated in 
No. 3130. (Hensi.) 
