II. — DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES. 
I. — MEMSPERMACEJS. 
Scandent or twining shrubs, with palmate or peltate alternate leaves, 
without stipules. 
Flowers dioecious, rarely perfect or polygamous. Sepals usually 6 
(rarely 1 — 4 or 9 — 12), imbricate in two series. Male flowers : Stamens 
hypogynous, equal in number and opposite to the petals ; filaments free 
or connate. Female flowers : Staminodes 6 or 0. Ovaries usually 3. 
Ripe carpels drupaceous. Seeds usually hooked or reniform, often 
curved by an intrusion of the endocarp. 
Genera 62; species about 100. 
Distribution : Chiefly in the tropics of both hemispheres. 
1. Cocculus DC. 
Climbers or rarely nearly erect. 
Flowers in axillary panicles. Sepals 6, in two series, 3 inner larger. 
Petals 6, shorter than the inner sepals. Male flowers : Stamens 6, free, 
with 4-lobed anthers. Female flowers : Staminodes 6 or 0. Ovaries 3 ; 
styles usually cylindric. 
Drupes rotundate or obovate, compressed. Putamen tuberculate or 
transversely rugose. Seed horseshoe-shaped ; embryo with linear, appress- 
ed cotyledons in few fleshy albumen. 
Species about 18. 
Distribution : All warm climates. 
1. Cocculus Cebatha DC. Syst. I (1818), 527 ; Prodr. I (1824) 100. 
Cocculus pendulus (Forst.), Diels, Pflanzenf. IV, 94. 
C. LesebaDC. Syst. I (1818) 529; Prodr. I (1824) 99; A. Rich. 
FI. Seneg. I (1831) 13; Hook. Niger FI. (1849) 97 ; Miers in Contrib, 
Bot. Ill (1871) 256; Oliver FI. Trop. Afr. I (1868) 44; Hook.f.et 
Thoms. FI. Ind. (1855) 192; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. I (1872) 102; 
Yolkens, FI. Aeg.-Arab. Wiiste (1887) 86. 
C. ellipticus DC. Syst. I (1818) 256; Prodr. I (1824) 100. 
C. Epibaterium DC. Syst. I. (1818) 530 ; Prodr. I (1824) 100. 
C. lsevis Wall. Cat. 4975 (1828). 
C. glabra W. & A, Prodr. I (1834) 13 ; Miers in Contrib. Bot. Ill 
(1871) 257. 
C. recisus Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3. ser. XIX (1867) 24 n. n.; 
Contrib. Bot. Ill (1871) 258. 
