Mr. Colebrooke on the Indian Species of Menispermum. ~>7 



COCCULUS. 

 Dioicous. Calyx 3-leaved. Petals 3. Nect. (int. cor.) 6 iCales. 

 Stamina 6 or 3. Pistils 3 or 6. Drupes 1—3 (or 1—6), 

 1-seeded. 



Cocculus i?wa?ius. C. 



Menispermum villosum. Roxb. Mss. 



Leaves cordate, entire, villous, mucronate. Panicles axillary, 



shorter than the leaves. 



A large perennial climber, native of Chitagong and Silhet in 

 Bengal ; named in last-mentioned province Sundi-lat. It twines 

 over trees to a great extent, and is in flower and fruit at divers 

 seasons of the year. 



Stem perennial, twining, round. The whole plant villous and 

 soft like velvet. Pubescence white. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 broad-cordate to deltoid and ovate, terminated by a minute 

 dagger point, five-nerved, sub- entire ; posterior lobes of the 

 cordate leaves round in some, and straight in others. Length 

 2 — 4 inches. Breadth somewhat less. Petioles round, half 

 as long as the leaf. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, caducous. 

 Panicles axillary, solitary or in pairs, shorter than the leaves, 

 subglobular. Flowers yellowish-green, inodorous. Bractes at 

 the ramifications of the panicle and base of the pedicel, su- 

 bulate ; a minute one appressed to the calyx. Perianth three- 

 leaved. Leaflets obovate, coloured, villous. Petals three, 

 scarcely longer, spreading, alternate with the calycine leaf- 

 lets. Nectary or interior corol, six scales, small, oval, with in- 

 curved margins. AFilamen ts six, capillary, erect. Anthers 

 two-lobed. Lobes round, opening by circular pores at the 

 summit. Pistil none. ? Filaments six, clavate. Anthersnone, 

 but barren knobs terminating the filaments. Germs three, sub- 

 globular, flattened on the contiguous sides. Style*, from the 



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