8 MENISPERMACEAE. [Cocculus. 
pubescent. Petals bifid or sharply bidentate, auriculate at the base. 
em. Cymes 3-flowered, all pedicels of even length, 1—11/2. Drupe 
fleshy, bluish, the putamen annular and perforate, the styliferous apex 
touching the base, with a dorsal = and 2 lateral furrows, transversely 
rugose. — Walp. Rel. Meyen. p. — Nephroica Ferrandiana, Miers, 
in Contrib. to Bot. III. — Gray, oe U. §. E. E 
ii! and proba eh oe islands. M. & B.’ s thas ~~ (without pape 
rs paunn has targer, broad-oblon with 3—5 bas rves, 
he flowers wit sepa In pla ww prt Puna! aweti: git leaves are mucro neni 
aren there are 3 all cycles of sepals. 
3. C. lonchophyllus, Hillebr. — Stem twining, pubescent. Leaves 
glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, but generally contracted at the base, even 
cuneate, in female specimens occasionally cordate, mucronate, 2— 2"/2! 
10—12”, on petioles of 3—6”. ale fl. many in a compound cyme. 
Sepals ciliate, 6 in 2 cycles, those of the outer minute, 1/3 or 1/4 as large 
as the inner ones, which measure 1”, Petals with a cuneate base, ae 
ed below the middle and shortly bidentate, seit entire. Fem. fl. Cym 
3-flowered. Sepals 6—9, besides 2 bractlets, in 3 cycles, aah stint 
one sepal wanting in any or all cycles. Stamens 6, abortive. Carpels 6, 
stipitate, with recurved styles, often all maturing, Deiat fleshy, the 
putamen annular, laterally banter tuberculate at the back, not keeled. 
— Holopeira lonchophylla, Miers, in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. XIX, 
no. 109, and Contrib. to Bot. II. 
Maui! Kula and Honuaula. 
4. C. virgatus, sp. n. — Stems rather stiff and trailing, pubescent, as 
is the inflorescence. Leaves subcoriaceous, ovate to cordate, obtuse and 
mucronate or subacute, with 3—5 basal nerves, pubescent iets 
11/2—21/2' & 1—11/4', on petioles of 6”. Male fl. many in compound cymes, 
appearing like foliose panicles. Sepals 5— = in 2 or 3 cycles. Petals 
bidentate, auriculate at the base. Fem. fl. Cyme simple, longer than the 
petiole. Sepals 6 in 2 cycles, of nearly even shape and size. Stamens 
abortive. Carpels 6, with recurved styles. Drupes dryish, stipitate horse- 
shoe-shaped, the styliferous apex at some distance from the base, not 
keeled at the back, transversely rugose. 
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nate, the 8—9 sepals yor the petal are sprssaereg and vba hdd neem 
Here must also be te mentioned the Order urease to which belong the Custard-Apples, 
Anona Cherimolia » Mill., from the Ecuadorian 
- §guamosa, L., from the W. an 
and the Soursop, A, murie ata, L., also Sek ibe w. ‘Indies, fruit trees in general cultiva- 
tion, the first one eS as an escape. 
+ cee ay 
Nelumbium speciosum, Willd., which 
covers some ponds in the nelghbernosd of tion oeart a native of China and the East. 
