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COCCOLOBA DIVERSIFOLIA. 
Various-leaved Seaside Grape. 
OCTANDRIA DIGYNIA._Nat. Ord. POLYGONEM. 
Gen. Char — Calyx quinquepartitus, coloratus. Corolla 0. Bacca calycina, 
monosperma. — W. 
Coccoloba dwersifolia ; foliis rarausculorura ovatis, ramorum ovato-cor- 
datis. — Jacq. 
C. diversifolia, 5xcq. Am. Bot. p. 114. t. 76 Willd. Sp. PL v. ii. p. 458. 
A small tree, reaching in the stove of the Liverpool Botanic Garden to the 
height of eight or ten feet, compact in its mode of growth. Branches 
cylindrical, greenish-brown, the young ones green. Leaves varying from 
ovato-cordate, as are the greater number, to ovate, as in those growing 
upon the ultimate branchlets ; subcoriaceous, smooth, bright green, ra- 
ther shining, glabrous, the margin quite entire, the extremity rather ob- 
tuse, veined, petiolated ; petioles short, flattened above. 
Racemes, or rather spikes, from four to six inches in length, filiform, green. 
Flowers rather distantly placed, in pairs (vide Fig. 4.), each pair inclosed 
in a somewhat truncated, membranaceous bractea, nearly sessile; me 
flowering long before the other. Calyx deeply divided into five ovate 
lobes, about half inferior, pale yellow-green, concave, slightly tubercled 
externally, at length reflexed : its aestivation imbricating. Corolla none- 
Stamens eight, scarcely longer than the segments of the calyx, filiform, 
all united into one annular body at the base around the pistil. Anthers 
didymous, pale yellow. Pistil: Germew more than half inferior. Styles 
three, tapering upwards, curved at the extremity, and obtuse at the 
point ; Stigmas obtuse. 
Native of the West Indies (St Domingo, according to 
Jacquin), and received by Messrs Shepherd at the excel- 
lent Botanic Institution of Liverpool under the name of Coc- 
coloha harhadensis. From that species, however, as it is fi- 
gured and described by Jacquin, Obs. t. 8. who only appears 
to have known the plant without flower, it differs in the even, 
not waved margin of its leaves ; and it appears so entirely to 
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