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paniculse racemosce vel spicatce, axillares, rarissime terminales, 

 solitarice vel interdum plures, scepius brevissima;, (^ multiflorce, 

 $ pauciflora, bracteis minimis donata ; flores minusculi, pedi- 

 cellatij S(Bpius glabri. 



The species referred to this genus are the followiog, which 

 will be fully described in the third volume of ' Contributions to 

 Botany : ' — 



1. Cocculus Carolinus, DC. Syst. i. 524, Prodr. i. 98; A. Gray, 

 Gen. Un. St. i. 72, tab. 28; — Menjspermum Carolinum, 

 Linn. Sp. 1468 ; Lam. Diet. iv. 97; mild, Sp. PL iv. 825; 

 Mich. Fl. Boi\ ii. 242 ; — Wendlandia populifolia, Willd. ii. 

 275 ; Poir. Diet. viii. 796 ; — Androphylax scandens, Wendl. 

 Obs. ii. 38. — In Americse comitatibus meridionalibus : v. s, 

 in herb, variis e Carolina, Florida, Louisiana et Texas. 

 Var. hedereefolius ; — Menispermum hedersefolium. Dill. Elth. 

 223, 1. 178. f. 219; — Menispermum Virginicum, Linn. Sp. 

 1468; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 824; Lam. Diet. iv. 95.— In 

 Florida, Louisiana, et Texas. 



2. sagittifolius, nob. — In Texas : v. s. in herb. Hook., San 



Felipe (Drummond). 



3. oblongifoliusy jyC. Syst. i. 529, Prodr. i. 99; Hsenk. 



Reliq. ii. 79. — In Mexico : v. s. in herb. Hook. (^ et ? , 

 Acapulco ; Sonora alta, J" (Coulter, 656), $ (Coulter, 657) ; 

 Matamoras (Berlandier, 2300) ; Tehuacan, Pueblas (Gal- 

 leotti, 1536) : in herb. Boissier, Mexico (Pavon). 



4. Leaba, DC. Syst. i. 529, Prodr. i. 99; A. Rich. Fl. 



Seneg. i. 13 ; Hook. Nig. Fl. 97 ; Hook. & Th. Fl. Ind. i. 

 192; — Leseba, Forsk. Fl. Egypt. 172; — Cocculus Cebatha, 

 DC. Syst. i. 527, Prodr, i. 99 ;— Cebatha edulis, Forsk. Fl. 

 Egypt. 171 ; — Cocculus Epibaterium, DC. Syst. i. 530, 

 Prodr. i. 100; — Epibaterium pendulum, Forst. Gen. 108, 

 tab. 54 ; — Menispermum Leseba, Del. Fl. Egypt. III. 30, 

 tab. 51. f. 2 & 3; — Menispermum ellipticum, Poir. Diet. 

 Suppl. iii. 657; — Cocculus ellipticus, DC. Syst. i. 526, 

 Prodr. i. 100; — Menispermum edule, Vahl. Symb, i. 80; 

 Lam. Diet. iv. 99 ; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 828.— In Senegalia, 

 Egypto, Abyssinia, et India orientali : v. s. in hei'b. Mus. 

 Brit. ? , Senegal (Perottet) ; Egypt (Wilkinson et Forskal, 

 sub C. edule) ; St. lago Cap. Verd. (Forster sub Epibaterium 

 pendulum) : in herb. Hook., Senegambia (Heudelot), Afr. 

 centr. (Vogel, 39), Abyssinia, Fazokel (Kotschy, 456), 

 Egypt (Sieber), Arabia (Schimper, 354), Ethiopia (Brom- 

 field), ins. Cap. Verd. (Forbes-Brunnen), Scinde (Vicary), 

 Punjab (Dr. Thomson). 



5. glaber, W. & A. Prodr. i. 13 ; — Cocculus laevis. Wall. 



