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Lam. Diet. iv. 99 ; Willd. Sp. PL iv. 828 ; — scandens, ramulis 
gracillimis, virgatis, pendulis; foliis ellipticis vel oblongis, imo 
obtusis, a medio sursum angustioribus, apice obtusiusculis, 
mucronatis, e basi 3-5-aerviis aut triplinerviis, utrinque gla- 
bris et opacis, subtus cano- vel cinereo-glaucis, marginibus 
subrevolutis; petiolo tenui, interdum obsolete puberulo, 
limbo 6-plo breviore : paniculis axillaribus, solitariis vel 
geminis, brevissimis, flores 5—6 fere sessiles in eapitulo 
subgloboso gerentibus, vel in ramis novellis ortis foliis de- 
ficientibus racemum elongatum interrupte spicatum mentieu- 
tibus : paniculis ? axillaribus, solitariis vel geminis, petiolo 
sublongioribus ; pedunculo flores 1-3 pedicellatos minime 
bracteolatos gerente. — In Senegalia, ^Egypto, Abyssinia, ins. 
Cap. Verd. et India orientali : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. $ , 
Senegal (Perottet) ; ^gypt (Wilkinson et Forskahl, sub C. 
edule) ; St. lago Cap. Verd. (Forst. sub Epibaierium pendulum) : 
in herb. Hook., Senegambia (Heudelot), Africa centr. (Vogel, 
39), Abyssinia, Fazokel (Kotschy, 456), Egypt (Sieber), 
Arabia (Schimper, 354), Ethiopia (Broomfield, Kotschy), 
ins. Cap. Verd. (Forbes, Brunnen), Scinde (Vicary), Punjab 
(Dr. Thomson). 
This species is widely diffused (but its limit is confined within 
the extensive northern tropical zone which runs across the con- 
tinent of Africa, Arabia, and part of India) — indeed, almost 
everywhere between Cape Verde and the Punjab. It appears to 
grow in hot, dry, arid places, and to climb on bushes for its 
support. Its leaves are very small, not exceeding 8-15 lines in 
length, and 4-7 lines in breadth, upon a petiole l|-2 lines long. 
The axillary ^ panicles, scarcely exceeding ^ inch in length, are 
furnished with five or six minute flowers, which have nine sepals 
in three decreasing series, the outer bracteiform, all suborbi- 
cular, membranaceous, glabrous, and erosely ciliolated on the 
margin. The ? axillary peduncle is solitary, filiform, 4 lines 
long, supporting one to three flowers on short pedicels, bracteo- 
lated at base ; the flower has also nine orbicular sepals, cilio- 
lated on the margins, six petals, six sterile stamens, and three 
glabrous ovaries. The putamen of the fruit is smaller than in 
the following species, not more than line (rarely 2 lines) in 
diameter ; it is cochleiform with an obtuse basal angle, and has 
scrobiculated depressions on each face, the aperture of the con- 
dyle being large, lunate, and deep. 
5. Cocculus glaber, W. & A. Prodr. i. 13 ; — Cocculus Isevis, Wall, 
in Cat. 4975 ; — Cocculus Leaeba, Hook. ^ Th. [in parte) FI. Ind. 
i. 192; — omnino glaber, caule scandente, ramulis gracillimis, 
virgatis, pendulis, striatis; foliis ovatis vel oblongis, saepe 
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