MUNISPERMACER. 
Menispermads. 
No 96. 
COCCULUS PALMATUS. 
CotumBa Puanr, Columbo, 
Place—aAfrica. 
Quality—Bitter. 
Power—aAntisceptic, tonic, 
Use—Indigestion, diarrhoea, fevers, cholera. 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. 
Natural Order. Sarmentacer—L. Menispermacex.—J. 
Crass XXII. Diecta. Orper Hezandria. 
Willd. Sp. Pi. 824. Woody. Med. Bot. V. 21. Stephenson and Churchill 160. Loud. 
Ency. Pl. 844. U.S. Dis. 261. Griff. Med. Bot. 103. Per. El. Mat. Med. If. 733. | 
Beach. Fam. Ph. 662. Kost. Mat. Med. 453. Wood, Class Book, 151. Lind. Flor. 
Med. 369. De Candolle. Syst. Nat. I. 515. 
Genus COCCULUS. 
From Coccus, the name of the well known dyers’ insect, and has been applied to this 
Genus on account of the resemblance which has been found to exist between that 
insect and the scarlet berries of the plant. 
Synonymes.—Colombo [F-}, Kolusiboveutiel [G.], Columba (t}, ], Raizade Colombe 
{ Sp.], Kalumbo [ Port. ], Kalumb [ Mozambique], Columbo vaye. (Tan.] 
THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS, 
Catyx. Sepals, three-cight in a double series, two-four in each, 
imbricated in zstivation, hypogynons, deciduous. 
Corotia. Petals, one-eight, hypogynous, — as many as the 
pele, rarely wanting or none. 
