BOTANY OF SOCOTEA. 



PHANEKOGAMJ] ANGIOSPERMJL 



DICOTYLEDONES. 



POLYPE TAL^. 



Order I. MENISPEKMACE^. 



A considerable tropical order of, with but few exceptions, climbing plants, 

 occurring in both the old and new worlds. A few species are found in the 

 cooler regions of North America, Eastern Asia, South Africa, and Australia. 



COCCULUS. 



Cocculus, DC. Syst. Veg. i. 515 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 36. 



A small genus of about twelve species, chiefly growing in tropical Africa and 

 Asia, though two species belong to the warmer parts of North America. All 

 climbers except two species, of which one is endemic in Socotra. 



1. O. Leseba, DC. Syst. Veg. i. 529; Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. i. 44; 

 Hook. fil. and Thorns, in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 102. 



Adenodicton phyllanthoides, Fenzl. in Flora 1844, 312. 



Socotra. Not uncommon on the hill slopes. B.C.S. nn. 326, 340, 621, 

 632. Schweinf. n. 713. 



Distrib. Tropical and subtropical Africa to the Cape de Verde Islands, 

 and through Arabia to Afghanistan and India. 



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