POLYGONACEZ. 
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COCCOLOBIS. 
FLoweErs perfect or rarely unisexual by abortion; calyx 5-lobed, the lobes imbri- 
cated in estivation; corolla 0; stamens 8; disk annular; ovary 3-angled, superior, 
1-celled ; ovule solitary, erect. Fruit a nutlet, included in the thickened calyx-tube 
or in its lobes. Leaves alternate, entire, stipulate. 
Coccolobis, Browne, Nat. Hist. Jam. 209 (1756). — Lin- 
neus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1007 (Coccoloba) (1759) ; Gen. 
ed. 6, 196. — A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 82. — Endlicher, 
Gen. 308. — Meisner, Gen. 316.— Bentham & Hooker, 
Gen. iii. 102. — Baillon, Hist. Pl. xi. 391.— Engler & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. pt. i. 33. 
Guiabara, Adanson, Fam. Pl. ii. 277 (1763). 
Campderia, Bentham, Bot. Voy. Sulphur, 159, t. 52 
(1844). — Bentham & Hooker, Gen. iii. 102. 
Uvifera, Otto Kunze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 561 (1891). 
Trees or shrubs, occasionally scandent. Leaves alternate, usually coriaceous, entire, orbicular, ovate, 
obovate or lanceolate, petiolate, persistent ; stipules inclosing the branch above the node with broad or 
narrow membranaceous truncate lobed or acuminate persistent or caducous sheaths. Flowers articulate 
on short or elongated ebracteolate pedicels in one or few-flowered fascicles subtended by a minute bract, 
and surrounded by a narrow truncate membranaceous sheath or ochreola, each pedicel and those above 
it in the fascicle being surrounded by a similar sheath; fascicles gathered in short or elongated 
terminal and axillary racemes or terminal panicles inclosed at the base in the sheath of the nearest 
leaf, and sometimes also in a separate sheath. Calyx cup-shaped, five-lobed, the lobes ovate, rounded, 
thin and white, spreading ; after anthesis thickening and inclosing the nut in the tube or in the lobes. 
Stamens eight, rarely seven or nine, introrse, exserted or included; filaments filiform or subulate, 
dilated and connected at the base into a ring or short discoidal cup adnate to the tube of the calyx ; 
anthers ovate, attached on the back below the middle, versatile, two-celled, the parallel cells opening 
longitudinally. Ovary free, sessile, ovoid or oblong, three-angled, contracted into three stout terminal 
styles ; stigmas slightly or conspicuously dilated, entire or three-lobed ; ovule solitary, rising from the 
bottom of the cell on a short or elongated funicle, orthotropous ; micropyle superior. Fruit ovoid or 
globose, rounded or acute and crowned at the apex with the persistent often connivent lobes of the 
calyx, rounded or abruptly narrowed at the base; exocarp fleshy, crustaceous or dry, more or less 
adnate to the thin crustaceous or bony wall of the nutlet often divided on the inner surface near the 
base into several more or less intrusive plates. Seed erect, subglobose, acuminate at the apex, three to 
six-lobed, sessile or stipitate ; testa membranaceous, porulose, dark red-brown and lustrous. Embryo 
axillary in more or less ruminate farinaceous albumen; cotyledons suborbicular, white, cordate, flat or 
involute on the margins; radicle short, superior, cylindrical, erect or incumbent, ascending, turned 
toward the hilum.’ 
Coccolobis is confined to the tropics of the New World, where about one hundred and twenty 
1 By Lindau (Bot. Jahrb. xiii. 121) the species of Coccolobis are 
grouped in the following sections : — 
Rurc1a. Inflorescence few-flowered. Many-branched shrubs 
with small leaves. 
PanicuLaT&. Inflorescence panicled. Trees with ample leaves. 
Eucoccotosa. Inflorescence racemose, simple or fascicled. 
Nut included in the thickened tube of the calyx. Trees or 
shrubs with ample leaves. 
CampperiA. Inflorescence simple or fascicled ; bracts growing 
Nut chiefly included in the thickened lobes 
of the calyx. Trees or shrubs with large leaves. 
dark ; ochreole lax. 
