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subdeltoldeis, apice acutis, acuminatis et aristato-mucronatis, 
medio sinuato-constrictis, basin versus late expansis, margine 
sinuato-lobatis, imo truncatis vel ssepe profunde et late eor- 
datis, rigidiuseulis, a basi 5-nerviis, supra glabris, aut in 
nervis parce pubescentibus, subtus glaucis, pallidioribus, dense 
ferrugineo tomentosis ; petiolo pubescente, limbo dimidio vel 
3-plo breviore. — In Florida, Louisiana, et Texas : v. s. in herb. 
Mus. Brit., Texas (Lindheimer) ; Texas (Wright 2). 
This was first described and figured, in 1732, by Dillenius, 
again mentioned by Linngeus and Willdenow as a species distinct 
from C. Carolinus, and subsequently in 1796 by Lamarck, from 
a plant cultivated in the Jardin des Plantes; but it was not 
adopted by De Candolle or supported by American botanists. 
Although it has many claims to rank as a distinct species, I 
have not ventured to propose it, especially as it has scarcely 
been mentioned, even as a variety, by American botanists. The 
leaves are generally of darker hue, and covered beneath with 
dense ferruginous tomentum; they are l|-3 inches long, If- 
2| inches across the basal portion, on a slender petiole f-lj inch 
long. The drupe is of a bright red colour, much larger in dia- 
meter than the putamen, the pericarp becoming lax when dry. 
2. Cocculus sagittcefolius, nob. ; ramulis teneribus, ferrugineo 
tomentosis ; foliis sagittato-trilobatis, imo in sinum latum cor- 
datis, lobo superiore falcato-lanceiformi, acuminatissimo, lobis 
basalibus latissime rotundatis aut sinuato-truncatis, a basi 
3-nerviis, nervis extus ramosis, coriaceis, supra fusco-virenti- 
bus, subnitentibus, in nervis venisque sparse et obsolete pu- 
berulis, subtus brunneo-glaucis, ferrugineo tomentosis ; pe- 
tiolo tenui, pubescente, limbo 4-5-plo breviore ; paniculis ^ 
in ramulis junioribus solitariis, axillaribus aut terminalibus ; 
petiolo longioribus, pubescentibus, breviter alternatim ramosis, 
ramulis 2-3-floris ; floribus bractea pilosula imo donatis ; 
sepalis 6, 3 externis ovalibus, glabris, imo pilis paucis munitis, 
3 interioribus suborbicularibus, glabris ; petalis 6, sepalo 3-plo 
brevioribus, oblongis, carnosulis, fusco-opacis, glabris, apice 
obtusis, rarius denticulatis, imo inflexo-lobulatis. — In Texas : 
V. s. in herb. Hook., San Felipe (Drummond). 
This is a well-marked species, bearing much analogy with the 
preceding variety, and otfering a transition state between its 
extreme forms and the following species, C. oblongifolius. It is 
a slender climbing plant, with apparently diverging pendent 
branchlets. The leaves are 1^-2 inches long, l^-lf inch across 
the basal lobes ; the terminal lobe, which is two-thirds of the 
length of the leaf, at its origin is 4-6 lines broad, falcate, and 
