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wide; upper side glabrous or slightly pubescent, under more or less pubescent 
or sometimes tomentose ; petioles inserted at the margin, or sometimes slightly 
intramarginal: male racemes 3-4, shorter than the petiole; sepals orbicular, 
unguiculate ; column of stamens longer than the entire and externally hairy 
cup-shaped corolla: female racemes usually in pairs, sometimes solitary and 
forked, in flower scarcely so long as the petiole, in fruit often much longer 
than the leaf; drupes hairy.— Wight! cat. n. 39—2; leaves more or less pube- 
scent; petioles marginal or nearly so.—C. convolvulacea, Willd. sp. pl. 4. 
p. 863.— DC. prod. 1. p. 101; Spr. syst. 3. p. 911; Wall.! L. n. 4979.—8; 
leaves almost quite glabrous, decidedly peltate, ovate-orbicular, truncate at 
the base.—C. hernandifolia, Wall.! L.n.4977. a, b, d, and perhaps most of the 
others, (not of Wilid.)—C. glabra, Roxb. hort. Bengh. p. 74.—C. Pata, Roxb. 
in E. I. C. mus. tab. 187.—C. convolvulacea, Roxb. hort. Bengh. p. 74 (as to 
the provineial name Pata, but not the plant of Buch. Hamilton in the Calcutta 
garden.)—Braunea menispermoides, Wi/id.? (as to the female.)—y; leaves 
teniform rounded, villous, not peltate: male flowers on slender small-leaved 
floral branches.—C. orbiculata, DC. Prod. 1. p. 101; Spr. syst. 3. p. 911.— 
—C. cocculus male, Ham.! in Wall. L. n. 4857. g. (under Cocculus villosus.) 
—3; leaves ovate-orbicular, truncate at the base, softly villous, peltate ; male 
Tacemes from the axils of the older leaves.—C. hirsuta, DC. prod. 1. p. 101; 
Spr. syst. 3. p. 9310.—C. mauritiana, Ham.! in Wall. L.4980. a, (not b-f.)—— 
Widely distributed throughout the Peninsula. 
Specimens from the same stem vary exceedingly. C. Pareira chiefly differs 
y the obovate sepals without an unguis, and the staminal column so short as 
to be nearly concealed within the cup-shaped corolla. According to Hamil- 
ton’s herbarium, it is the male plant in Wall. L. n. 4857. g. which comes from 
hurinbari; the female, from Muniyari, is Cocculus villosus. C. mauritiana, 
Wall. L. n. 4980. b!, d!, f!, and perhaps c, e, (but not a) is Cocculus incanus, 
Colebr. in Linn. Soc. Trans. 13. p. 57. Perhaps C. mauritiana, Pet. Th. and 
DC. is not distinct from 3, but we have not seen it. 
ORDER VI.—BERBERIDE. Venin. 
Sepals 3-4-6, deciduous, in a double row, accompanied externally 
With petaloid scales. Petals hypogynous, equal to the sepals in number 
and opposite to them, or twice as many; often furnished in the inside 
with an appendage at the base. Stamens hypogynous, equal in number 
to the petals and opposite to them: anthers bilocular, the cells opening 
elastically with a valve from the bottom to the top. Ovarium solitary, 
 Unilocular, containing 2-12 ovules, which are erect, or attached late- 
rally to the inner margin, and forming there one or two rows: style 
Sometimes lateral, short: stigma orbieular. Fruit baceate or capsular, 
Indehiscent. Albumen fleshy or horny. Embryo straight, in the axis 
of the albumen : radicle pointing to the hilum : cotyledons flat.— Leaves 
alternate, without stipules. 
I. BERBERIS. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 253; Gert. fr. t. 4l. 
_ Sepals 6, with three external close pressed bracteas. Petals 6, usually with 
two distinct glands at the base. Stamens 6. Stigma orbicular, depressed, 
Sessile or very rarely with an evident style. Fruit a berry with 1-9 seeds.— 
bs. Primary leaves abortive and usually changed into thorns; second- 
ary leaves fascicled in the axils of the others. Flowers yellow. 
