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where the fifth figure in the bottom row upon the plate men- 
tioned is either a deformed ovary or a monstrous stamen. 
Cocculus is a cosmopolitan genus, some of its species belong- 
ing to the New World; Nephroica is widely distributed through 
Asia and its numerous islands; Holopeira is Indian and African; 
Diploclisia is found in Ceylon, the Indian peninsula, and along 
the Malayan coast. 
Cocculus, DC. — Flores dioici. Masc. Sepala 9, ordine ternario 
alternatim disposita, interiora majora, exteriora minora et 
bracteiformia, obovata, margine ssepius eroso-denticulata, 
aestivatione irabricata. Petala 6, sepalis opposita, biserialia, 
aequalia, sepalis interioribus minora, oblonga, infra medium 
angustiora, imo 2-auriculata, lobis filamenta amplectentibus. 
Stamina 6, subaequalia, unguibus petalorum aflfixa ; filamenta 
petalis paulo longiora, teretia, apice incrassata ; antherce dorso 
introrsum adnatae, rotundato-4-lobae, 2-loculares, loculis col- 
lateralibus connectivo angustissimo interstinctis, utrinque 
rima diagonali bivalvatim hiantibus. Ovaria rudimentaria 3, 
centralia, punctiformia. — Fcem. Sepala et petala masc. Sta- 
mina sterilia 6, petalis involuta, breviora, emasculata vel abor- 
tiva. Ovaria 3 vel 6, ovata, gibba. Stylus brevissimus, ex- 
centricus. Stigma subito horizontaliter deflexum, subteres, 
superne canaliculatum. Drupa 3, transversim ovatae, carnosae, 
stigmate persistente proxime hilum notatae ; putamen osseum, 
reniformi-globosum, subcoinpressum, sulcis radiatis vel tor- 
tuosis exsculptum carinaque peripherica laevi signatum, uni- 
loculare, loculo subcyclico circa condylum gyrato ; condylus 
excentralis, internus, cochlearis, septo integro vertical! in 
locellos 2 vacuos divisus, utrinque meatu parvo externo tri- 
angulari perforatus. Semen loculo conforme, extus convexum, 
intus planum; integumentum membranaceum, facie ventrali 
medio chalazce ad condyli septum affixum ; embryo intra albu- 
men simplex carnosum, fere annularis, cotyledonibus folia- 
ceis, carnosulis, lineari-oblongis, incumbentibus, radicula 
tereti supera ad stylum spectante duplo longioribus et multo 
latioribus. 
Frutices scandentes, intra {rarius extra) tropicos lotius orbis cres- 
centes ; folia alterna, petiolata, ovata, oblonga vel sublinearia; 
paniculae racemosce vel spicatce, axillares, rarissime terminales, 
solitaria vel interdum plures, sapius brevissimce, $ multiflorce, 
$ pauciflorce, bracteis minimis donates ; flores minusculi, pedi- 
cellati, seepius glabri. 
1. Cocculus Carolinus, DC. Syst. i. 524, Prodr. i. 98; A. Gray, 
Gen. Unit. St. i. 72, tab. 28; — Menispermum Carolinum, 
