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1. COCCULUS DC, 



Sepals, petals and stamens 6, the latter two short. Anthers terminal, 

 globular, 4-celled. Pistils 3 -6 in the fertile flowers. Styles cylindrical, 

 pointed. Drupe globular, the mark of the stigma near the base, the 

 ovary in its growth after flowering being strongly incurved, so t^at the 

 (wrinkled and grooved) laterally flattened stone takes the form of a 

 crescent or ring. The slender embryo horse- shoe-shaped. Cotyledons 

 narrowly linear and flat, Flowers in axillary racemes or panicles. 

 Subgenus, NEPHROICA Miers. Petals bifid, lobes acute, 



Genus of several species, chiefly Indian, extending also into Africa and 'Australasia ; 

 two Horth American species. 



1. C. (NEPHROICA) FERRANDIANUS Gaud. (Enum. No. 3.) Stem 

 herbaceous, slender, twining, hairy, with a reflexed pubescence, at 

 length nearly glabrous. Leaves rather coriaceous, ovate and subcor- 

 date, and obtuse or retuse, or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate and somewhat 

 narrowed at the base, 3-5 nerved, l'-3' long, entire, strigose pubescent 

 when young,soon nearly glabrous. Petioles slender, hairy. Peduncles 

 shorter than the petioles ; the fertile few-flowered, the sterile few-many- 

 flowered. Flowers greenish, the petals of the sterile ones auricu- 

 late-inflexed below around the filaments. Fruit blue, about 2' in diam- 

 eter. 



Kaala Mountains, Oahu; mountains behind Honolulu. Puna and Waimea, Hawaii. 

 Mountains of Kauai. 



ORDER III. PAPAVERACE^. 



Herbs, with milky or orange juice (narcotic, as that of the Poppy, 

 and sometimes acrid), with regular flowers, lasting but a day, mostly 

 2 sepals falling when the corolla (of twice as many petals) expands, 

 numerous hypogynous stamens, and a compound ovary with two or 

 more parietal placentae ; in fruit a many-seeded capsule. Embryo mi- 

 nute, in copious albumen. Represented in gardens by the Poppy (es- 

 pecially the P. somniferum or Opium Poppy), which has a radiate crown 

 of many stigmas sessile on the ovary, its placentae projecting to form 

 imperfect partitions ; and in waste places by the Mexican Poppy : 



1. ARGEMONE Linn. [Puakala.] 



Stigmas 4-T, nearly sessile on the top of the ovary. Capsule obo- 

 vate or oblong, opening at the top in short valves between the parie- 

 tal placentae. Leaves usually prickly. 



A small American genus. 



1. A. -MEXICANA Linn. An erect hard glaucous and glabrous 



