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1. COCGULUS DC, 



Sepals, petals and stamens G, 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 that the 

 (wrinkled aud 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 bifld, lobes acute. 



G-enus of several species, cliiefly Indian, extending also into Africa and Australasia ; 

 two Korth American species. 



1. C. (Nepheoica) 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, aud obtuse or retuse, or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate and somewhat 

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

 when youug,soon neaiiy 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, Oaliii ; mountains behind Honolulu. Puna and W^aimea, Hawaii. 

 Mountains of Kauai. 



Order III. PAPAVERACE^. 



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

 and sometimes acrid), with regular flowers, lasting but a day, mo.stly 

 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. somnifer-um 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 4-7, 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 



