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* COCCOLUBA vireiis. 



Green Sea-side Grape. 



OCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



Nat, ord. Polygonace^. {Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, j9. 221.) 



COCCOLOBA,L. Calyx 5--panitus, semi-infcrus, laclnils Imbrlcatis ; 

 in friictu Incrassatus baccans. Sta^nina 7-10 serie siinplici faucc inserta, fila- 

 mentis basi In urceolum brevissiinum coalitis. Ovarium seml-supcruin, trigynum ; 

 stigmatibus spatbulatis nunc lobulatls. Achcnium basi lobatum, osseuni, calyce 



baccato tectum. Frutices arboresve minores, occidentales. Flores racemosi. 



Fructus subacidi, edules. 



C. virens ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis obtusis basi in petiolum angustatis, raccmls 

 nutantlbus, floribus decandris. 



Folia omninb dejnlata, ovato-lanceolata, semper basi anyustata vec ullo 

 modo basi obtusa vel cordata ; omnia conformia. Racenii virides, nutantes, 

 foliis minoribus cequales. 



The species of Coccoloba are so ill defined in books that 

 it is by no means easy in the absence of fruit to determine 

 them. This in some respects resembles C. obtusifoUa of 

 Jacquin, in others C. microstackya of Willdenow. From the 

 former it differs in the form of its leaves, from the latter in 

 their size and proportion' to the racemes. 



A hothouse plant, communicated from Wormleyi)ury by 

 Sir Abraham Hume, with whom it flowered in August 

 1833. It was called C. excoriata, which is a very different 

 plant. 



We are unacquainted with its native country, but presume 

 it to be the West Indies. 



* From kOKkoc a fruit (in this case seed) and \oj3or a lobc^ in allusion to the 

 lobcd seeds. 



