4 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Thus circumscribed/ the genus Coccuhs includes some twenty 

 species, 2 all inhabiting all the warm regions of America, Asia, 

 Africa, and Oceania. 3 They have slender stems, woody at the base, 

 rarely erect, more frequently sarmentose and climbing, covered 

 with alternate simple petiolate exstipulate leaves, sometimes peltate 

 or cordate at the base. Their flowers form axillary supra- axillary 

 or lateral, or more rarely terminal racemes, simple or more frequently 

 ramified, and then consisting of little cymes, with each flower axil- 

 lary to a usually caducous bract. 



The Moon-seeds (Fr., Menispermes, 4 figs. 5-11) have all the charac- 



Menispermum dahuricum. 



tfH0S 



Fig. 6. 

 Hale flower (\). 



Fig. 5. 

 Male floriferous branch. 



Fig. 7. 

 Long. sect, of male flower. 



ters of Cocculus ; the same perianth, gynseceum, and fruit. But 

 their male flowers contain a much larger number of stamens, from 



Ann. Nat. Hist, ser. 2, vii. 43 ; ser. 3, xiv. 363. — 

 B. H., Gen., 36, 961, n. 15. — Hypserpa Miehs, 

 in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vii. 40 ; ser. 3, xiv. 

 365. 



l 



/l. Fucocculus. 

 2 ? Tristichocalyx. 



3. Cebatha. 



4. Diploclisia. 



5. Limacia. 

 .. 6. Pericampy his. 



2 Wendl., Hort. Herrenh., t. 16 (Wend- 



Cocculus. 

 Sect. 6. 



landia).— Deless., Ic. Sel., i. t. 94, 97.— A. 

 Geat, Gen. III., t. 28.— Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 

 p. ii. 82. — Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. 

 Suppl., 49; Fl. HongTcong., 12; Fl. Austral, i. 

 56 {Pericampylvs). — 'WAVF., Ann., iv. 126 

 (Hypserpa), 128 (Pericampyltts), 127. 



3 Two doubtful Brazilian species have been 

 described by Eichleb (in Mart. Fl. Bras., 

 Menisp., 183). 



4 Menispermtim T. in Mem. Acad. Par* 

 (1705), 237.— Adans., Fam. des PL, ii. 364.— 



