COCCULUS. 307 
Oss. It is more agreeable to the laws of organisation to 
refer the outer series to the calyx, the inner to the corolla, 
Ithink the fact of the stamens being distinctly in two series, 
(and consequently their corresponding squame or pet. D. C. 
being so) disproves the idea of the squamæ being petals. 
Petals are usually situated between the calyx and the sta- 
mina, these scales are thus arranged—3 scales, 3 stamens. 
Taking them for petals, we have the following anomalous 
arrangement. A calyx of 6 sepals situated on two distinct 
planes, 3 petals, with three stamens and 3 petals, 3 stamens. 
If they are petals the stamina do not appear to be hypogynous, 
but periginous, universally separating with the scales. 
 lobservedan imperfect development of the ovarium in 
some male flowers. 
2. Cocculus nudiflorus. 
Caulib. scandent. volubil. carnosis. Fol. 0. Racemis ex 
axillis folior. lapsor. 3-4 uncial. multifloris erectis. Pedicellis 
basi bracteatis, floribus majusculis fusco-viridibus. 
. Nepal. 3 minuti, ovati. Pet. 3 iis alternant. multo ma- 
Jore, patentia. — Squamz 6 hypogyna petaloidez quorum 3 
exteriore majore, sepalis opposita, 2 interior minore petalis 
marginibus basin versus involutis. 
Rud. stam. 6, hypogyna, breviss. setacea, squamis opposita, 
apicibus obtuse conicis. 
Carpella 3 distincta, toro dilatato elevato insidentia, sepalis 
Opposita, : 
Stylus crassus breviss. Stigma subreniforme repan- 
dum, l-loeufare, l-ovulat. ovula pendulo ab apicem locule 
versus, foramen hilum prope super. Tegument. ovuli simplex. 
Han. In sepib. Mergue: March, 1835. Masem legi apud 
Motow sed nex exminandum : Feb. 1835. 
BS. The stem presents two separate systems of wood, the 
, Suter fibrous disposed in arches, the ends of which communicate 
one with the other, the fibro vascular or inner, deposited in 
regular bundles, near the pith ; these bundles are quite dis- 
finet, Interposed between the two formations, is lax uncolor- 
