Cocculus. | MENISPERMACEAE. 7 
superior. — Climbers. Leaves alternate, undivided, usually with palmate 
nerves, or peltate. No et Flowers usually small, in cymes, racemes 
or fie 
considerable tropical ey both in the New and the Old World, a few species 
extending int orth America and northern Asia and a rather greater number into 
uthern Africa and Anata! a. 
1. COCCULUS, DC. 
Flowers dioecious. Sepals 6 or 9. Petals 6, generally auricled and 
embracing the stamens. Male Stamens 6, free, the anthers terminal, 
globular, 4-lobed, opening by traxiavexse slits. Fem. fl. Carpels 3 or 6, 
ith excentric erect or recurved styles. Drupes curved, obovate or rounded, 
laterally compressed, the scar of the style near the base. Putamen fra- 
gile, crescent- or ring-shaped and often perforated laterally. Embryo much 
curved, with albumen, the cotyledons linear, flat, much exceeding the 
short radicle. — wers in axillary cymes or panicles, the female in- 
ae generally 3-flowered. 
1 genus, Drag Indo-Chinese, but extending also into Africa and Australia, 
with ae N. A n species. 
The orgie agus are pec eculiar in having typically 3 cycles of Aa of which, 
however, one or the other is often poamae iy. and 6 carpels. The differences between 
male and female plants are not limit o the ssewpaeok sp eg Bape fen to the 
sepals, mode of inflorescence, and, it couse seem, som ven the shape of the 
leaves — circumstances which render nl acetates of he pa stat exceedingly 
difficult. ae name: «Huehue» or «Hue 
Petals e ‘ ; é : : : < 1. €. integer. 
Petals Lori or bidentate: 
Drupe annular 
Petals iameitade at paar base . A % 2 5 3 : . C. Ferrandianus. 
Petals cuneate at the : ; ‘ i ; C. os ge 
Drupe scremibesaedoek pe carinate . C. virgat 
1. C, integer, sp. n. — Stem twining, ail pubescent, with a hairy 
cushion in the axillas between the petioles and supra ary peduncles. 
Leaves membranous, nearly glabrous, ovate, acute, with 3—5 basal nerves, 
—3' X 11/4—11/2', on petioles of 6—8". Male fl. in a compound su 
paniculate cyme which does not exceed the petiole, the peduncle 3—4”. 
Sepals 9—7 in 3 cycles, those of the outer very minute, the inner obovate 
or rounded, 1'/2", Petals narrow lanceolate, auriculate near the base and 
drawn out into a long entire apex. 
Lanai! on the highest ridge. 
2. C.Ferrandianus, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freyc. p. 477, tab. 101. — Stem twining, 
retrorsely hispid or pubescent, most so in the axillas. Leaves ovato- 
or elliptico-lanceolate, acute, rarely subcordate at the base, with 
3 b. x 
—12”, on petioles of 4—6”. Male fl. many in a compound cyme not 
exeoatiine the petiole. “Sepals generally 6 in 2 cycles, but sometimes 7—8, 
