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$ ^^ Peninsula of India. Bengal, (Serampore.) Fl. small, greenish- 

 white, March and April ; fr. C. S. Makes impenetrable hedges. 



2. aculeata, L. {Spreng. I. c. — Lam. ill. t. 861 ; — Gurtn. fr. 1, p. 367. 

 t. 1(j,f. 4.) S -^ W. Indies. Fl. small, greenish- whitish, March and 

 April. 



3. mitis, Willd. H. C. G. in 1814. 



BUGINVILLEA, JuSS. 



1. spectabilis, Willd. sp. 2, p. 348; — Lam. ill. suppl. 5, p. 359. — Tricy- 

 cla spectabilis, Poir. B v^^ Rio Janeiro. August 1839. 



* Mirabilis dichotoma, L. %. Mexico. — M. suaveolens, Humb. "2/. Mexico. 

 Already introduced into Bombay. — M. hybrida, Lepel, %. New Gra- 

 nada. — Oxybaphus oggregatus, Cav. "2^. New Spain. — 0. glabrifolius, 

 Vahl. '4. New Spain. — Allionia violacea, L. Cumana. — A. incarnata, 

 L. © Cumana. — Tricycla spinosa, Cav. b Buenos Ayres. — Reichen- 

 bachia hirsuta, Spreng. 5 Brazil. — Salpianthus arenarius, Humb. ^ 

 Mexico. 



ORDER CLVIIL— MENISPERMACE^, DC— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 214. 



THE COCCULUS TRIBE. 



Twining shrubs, rarely trees, excluding Brannea, Bagalatta and Tiliacora, 

 and adding Cyclea, Arn., referred by Lindl. to 20 genera. Of these, DC. 

 pr. and Spreng. syst., enumerate 26 species for S. America, Mexico and the 

 W. Indies ; 4 for N. America ; 3 for Madagascar ; 3 for Japan ; 3 for Timor ; 

 1 for Senegal ; 1 for Owaree ; 1 for Arabia ; 1 for Egypt ; 1 for Mozam- 

 bique ; 1 for Mauritius ; I for Dahuria ; and 1 for the South Sea Islands. In 

 S. Africa have been discovered 4 species, {Harvey,) ; and in the E. Indies 

 about 60 ; viz. 1 of Anamirta ; 3 of Clypea ; 1 of Cyclea ; 35 of Cocculus ; 

 1 of Epibaterium, (Nephroia, Lour.) ; 1 of Pselium, (Lour.) ; 2 of Gyrios- 

 temma, (Bl.) ; 8 of Cissampelos ; 1 of Stephania, (Lour.) ; 4 of Phyiocrene ; 

 1 of Natsiatum ; 1 of Coscinium ; Cocculus hexagynus, Colebr. belongs to 

 South China. — Properties under the species. 

 Anamirta, Colebr. ( W. and A. pr. \, p. 446.) 



1. Cocculus, W. and A. (/. c. ; — /. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 4 A. panicu- 



lata, Colebr. Linn. soc. trans. 13, p. 52 and 66. — Menispermum Coc- 

 culus, L. ; Gurtn.fr. \,p. 219, t. 70. /. 7.— M. heteroclitum, RojO. 

 fl. ind. 3, p. 817. — Cocculus suberosus, W. and A. pr. I, p. 11 ; — DC. 

 pr. 1, p. 97. — C. orbiculatus, DC. o. c. p. 98 ; excl. syn. Pluk. — C. 

 lacunosus, DC. o. c. p. 97.) 5 ^^ Circar Mountains. The Concans. 

 Fl. small, greenish. In H. C. G. Fl. .-' Seeds ascertained to be an 

 irritating poison to quadrupeds and fishes, owing to the Picrotoxine 



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