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fescens 1 in America. Cocculus vittosus is also considered a sudorific in 

 India. The fruits of C. Leceba are acrid, but the Arabs eat them, 

 and prepare from them a fermented drink which they name khumr 

 ool majnoon. The acid mucilaginous drupes of Chondodrendron convol- 

 vulaceumr are also eaten in Peru, under the name of Uva del monte? 



cularis A. S. H.— C. subtriangularis A. S. H.— 

 C. rotundata Pohl. — C. amazonica MiebS. — 

 C. assimilis Miebs. — C. vestita Tbiaua & Pl., 

 in Ann. sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 44. 



1 Aubl., Ouian., 618, t. 250. — Lindl., Fl. 

 Med., 373. — Rosenth., op. cit., 582. — White 

 Pareira-brava of Guiana. 



2 Pcepp. & Endl., Nov. Gen. et Spec, 1. 190. 



3 Several Abuta have been considered poison- 



ous, only because according to Maetius {Reis., 

 hi. 1155) they enter into the composition of the 

 Woorali poison. This he says is the case with 

 A. rufescens {Cocculus Pahni Maet.), A. Imene 

 Eichl. (in Mart. Fl. Bras., Menisp., 177), and 

 Cocculus toxiferus Wedd., whose flowers are 

 unknown, but which belongs to the genus Abuta 

 or Chondodendron. 



