COCCULUS PALMATUS. 
Stamens distinct or monadelphous, equal in number to the Petals 
and opposite to them, or three or four times as many. 
Anthers, innate and consisting of four globose lobes, 
Ovary, usually solitary, sometimes two-four 
Fruit, a drupe, globose-reniform. 
Serbs, lunate and compressed 
THE SECONDARY CHARACTERS, 
Coccutus. Flowers unisexual, dicecious. Ca/yz of twelve sepals, 
in four series, with two three or more close pressed bracteoles. 
Mares. Stamens six, or rarely three opposite to the inner sepals, 
distinct. Anthers two-celled, terminal, dehising, vertically. 
Filaments, either filiform or thickened at the apex. FremaLes, 
Ovaries, three, six or numerous, Drupes one to six or numerous, 
one-celled, one-seeded. Peduwncles axillary or rarely lateral. 
Sepals and Petals ternate usually in two, rarely in three rows. Stamens, six distinct, 
opposite the petals. Drupes barried, one to six, generally oblique, reniform, somewhat 
compressed, one-seeded. Cotyledons distant. 
THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERS, 
Coccutus Patmatus Flowers small, green. Calyx of six 
_ petals in two series with bracteoles. Petals six obovate, half- 
enclosing the oppesite stamens. Anthers terminal, two-celled. 
Ovaries three, united at the base. Drupes hairy. 
Leaves cordate, flve—seven lobed. Lobes entire, acuminate somewhat hairy on 
both sides. Stem and Germ with glandular hairs. 
THE ARTIFICIAL CHARACTERS, 
Crass Diacta. Stamens apart from the pistils in different 
flowers upon different plants. Orper Hexanpria. Herbs, 
exogens, dicecious. Fruit adrupe, Stamens more than ten. 
Leaves peltate. Climbing snffruticose plant. Racemes axillary. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
This plant is a native of the Mozambique, west of Africa. 
Cibo is mentioned as.a locality of it. It there grows: spontane- 
_eusly, and is not. cultivated by the natives. The manner of pre- 
_ paring the root is to remove it from the earth during the dry 
season which is in March, and after washing it to cut it into 
pieces, usually horizontal, and then dry them in the shade. The 
