XATTBAL EISTOEY OF PLANTS. 



the Indian Berry [fig. l\ and Colombo Eoot (fig. 16), &c. ; but it is 

 now reduced to a far more limited number of species, generally 

 remarkable for their trimerous flowers, with calyx, corolla and 

 androceuni each formed of two whorls. In Cocculu* proper, as in all 

 known Menispermaceie, the flowers are small and dioecious, with a 

 small convex receptacle. If, for instance, we analyse those : 

 carolinus,'- which flourish in our gardens, we usually find 2 in the 



Coccml** carolimus. 



m s 



! V^ £ *)\ 



Fie-, a. 



^. 3. 



Fie- I 



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male flowers (figs. C-4 an outer calyx of three sepals, and an inner 

 calvx of three more, alternating with the former, and like them 



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valvate in the bud and petaloid. Internal to these come three 

 petals superposed to the outer petals, and three more superposed to 

 the inner ones - re all similar to one another, shorter and 



: ticker than the sepals, concave inside, and with their _ - indexed 

 to partially envelope the sir sed stamens. These, forming two 



wd rlsj and all simila: isist ach of a free filament, dilated 



above, and a basifixed introzse four-lobed two-celled anther, of 

 longitudinal dehiscence. 3 The cent. the flower is occupied by 



three or six lit: je bodies, repres _ idimentary carpels. In 



ffist^ ser. 3, six. 19.— 3" L "... 7 



Cockimc': ' — Ef baferimm F - \ar. 



Gf. '-. — Wemdlamdir. W_ Spec. .PL, ii. 



-"— Cecatla FcatSK, jF -T '._; i.-A -.;3., 171. 

 — Leal i ] 173 — ■ ."mlidimm 



- _H, lac cit^ 16. — Ademoc&etc _ . in 



1- — Xepiroiec MlKBS, in Amu. 

 . mL, ser. i _ — if 



loc eit. (ind. : IHploel Mrj ss, Limaeia 



3., PericampyiusllitZ' 7 :idtoeah 



IX.). 



1 DC, S*st.,\. 534; ZV "-.. L 98,1 85.— 

 Memisptrmmm carolimmm L„ Sp-ee^ 14' - - 



iiammm Her: — -tdlamdia jpopmlifolia 



■. -. a D 

 - E-: not constantly, for the :en 



accompanied by three, or even six, others, 

 :;: :..:.:>_. - I. .~ .--. ::-- ._'-'.-. i ' 

 '. :.: -' - -r ' ■ - - .:. t : .: r-. ii :ir .::e: 

 sepals, only differing in their smaller sire. It 

 is the presence of these extra whorls that leads 

 - : doubt the value of the Australian genus 

 7 fkfcxeig nxx, Fngm. Piiff. Am- 



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Hist., ser. 3, six. >7>, un- 

 known to us, but of which Bs>~tp <¥ says, 

 .-.•-■ Jo valde affine, diftVrre videtur imprimis 

 - -- : .: - 



3 Despite outward appearances, there are really 

 only two cells, in each of whicL -act rudi- 



mentary septum perpendicular to the true 



