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The fruit is rather sweet and edible ; it and the bark are used in domestic 

 medicine. 

 21. Odostemon wilcoxii (Kearney) Heller, Muhlenbergia 7: 139. 1912. 



Berberis tmlcoxii Kearney, Trans. N. Y. Acad. 14: 29. 1894. 



Northern Sonora. Southern Arizona and New Mexico; type from Fort Hua- 

 chuca, Arizona. 



Low shrub ; leaflets 3 to .5 cm. long, lustrous ; fruit blue. 



This is referred by Fedde to O. dictyotus (Jepson) Abrams,* and may not 

 be specifically distant from that California plant. 



40. jyiENISPERMACEAE. Moonseed Family. 



Shrubs, usually scandent ; leaves altex-nate, estipulate, petiolate, entire or 

 lobate ; flowers small, dioecious, cymose, the cymes racemose or paniculate ; 

 petals and sepals usually 6 each ; stamens as many as the petals and opposite 

 them. 



Endosperm none; leaves thick-coriaceous, glabrous 1. HYPERBAENA. 



Endosperm present ; leaves never thick-coriaceous. 

 Carpel 1 ; bracts of the inflorescence large, leaflike ; stamens connate. Leaves 



usually peltate 2. CISSAMPELOS. 



Carpels usually 3 ; bracts of the inflorescence small ; stamens free. 



Leaves not peltate; sepals and petals subequal 3. CEBATHA. 



Leaves peltate; sepals and petals unequal 4. MENISPERMUM. 



1. HYPERBAENA Miers, Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 7: 44. 1851. 



Refebence: Diels in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 94: 198-203. 1910. 

 1. Hyperbaena mexicana Miers, Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 19: 94. 1867. 



Known only from the original collection from somewhere in Mexico. 



Scandent shrub, nearly glabrous ; leaves oblanceolate-oblong, 10 to 12 cm. 

 long, acuminate, entire. 



2. CISSAMPELOS L. Sp. PI. 1031. 1753. 



Refebence: Diels in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 94: 283-306. 1910. 

 1. Cissampelos pareira L. Sp. PI. 1031. 1753. 



Cissampelos caapeba L. Sp. PI. 1032. 1753. 



Cissampelos tomentosa DC. Reg. Veg. Syst. 1: 535. 1818. 



CUsampelos acuminnta Benth. PI. Hartv,'. 445. 1840. Not C. acuminata DC. 

 1818. 



Cissampelos benthamiana Miers, Ann. Nat. Hist. III. 17: 144. 1866. 



Tamaullpas to Sonora, Chiapas, and Yucatan. Distributed almost throughout 

 the tropics of the world. 



Scandent shrub, usually densely pubescent, the hairs somewhat stinging; 

 leaves orbicular, reniform, or cordate ; bracts of the pistillate inflorescence 

 similar to the leaves but smaller; flowers very small, greenish white; fruit 

 a red or orange drupe. " Oreja de raton " (Michoacan, Gueri'ero) ; " butua " 

 (Colima. Guerrero, Veracruz); "pareira brava " (Veracruz, Oaxaca) ; " iztac- 

 coanenepilli " (Nueva Farmacopea Mexicana); " bejuco azul," " venadero " 

 (Costa Rica); " picamano " (Nicaragua); "bejuco de mono" (Porto Rico); 

 " alcotfln " (Guatemala, El Salvador); "bejuco de alcotAn " (El Salvador); 



^Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 6: 360. 1910. Berberis dictyota Jepson, Bull. Torrey 

 Club 18: 319. 1891. 



