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is then looked upon as a beautiful wood for all forts of 
eabinet-ware ; but it feldom rifes ilraight or regular. The 
Spaniards call it u-jero , and the French raifmier du lord 
de la trier. Introduced in 1696 by Mr. Bentick. All the 
fpecies are either trees or (hrubs bearing their flowers in 
racemes or bunches; except the three lad, they are na¬ 
tives of the Well Indies ; fome on the lea Ihores, where 
they form almolt impenetrable thickets. The fruit of 
the firll fort is frequently eaten by the inhabitants, but 
efpecially by the negroes ; the other forts are chiefly food 
for birds. 
2. Coccoloba pubefcens, or great-leaved fea-fide grape: 
leaves orbiculate, pubefcent. This is an upright tree, 
fixty or eighty feet high ; the head has frequently no 
more than two or three thick branches, but little divided 
and irregular; the bole of the tree is fometimes forty feet 
in length, and puts forth a branch or two about the mid¬ 
dle; the timber is deep red, heavy, very hard, and alfo 
incorruptible, but it is brittle; when ul'ed for polls, the 
part underground becomes hard as Hone; leaves round- 
ilh, cordate, quite entire, very much veined and wrinkled, 
frequently extremely hirfute, fometimes, however, almoft 
fmooth, alternate, few, two feet in diameter, on a ftiort 
petiole Iheathing at the bafe. It is common in the thick 
mountainous woods of Martinico. Browne fays, that in 
Jamaica it feldom rifes above five or eight feet in height; 
and that the berries are not elleemed. Jacquin had not 
feen the flower or fruit, but was informed that the latter 
is eatable. The French inhabitants call it bois d grandes 
feuilles. Jacquin cultivated it at Vienna about the year 
1755 j and Mr. Miller here in 1768. 
3. Coccoloba excoriata, or oval-leaved fea-fide grape, 
or mountain grape-tree: leaves ovate; branches, as it 
were, barked. This grows to a very large fize, and the 
leaves, flowers, and fruits, are all large; the leaves are 
very fmooth and of a lucid green. Browne informs us 
that it grows to a confiderable fize in Jamaica, and is 
looked upon there as a fine timber wood. It was intro¬ 
duced here before 1733, by William Houftoun, M. D. 
4. Coccoloba'nivea, or white fea-fide grape : leaves el¬ 
liptic, acuminate, veined, Ihining above ; racemes almoft 
upright. This tree grows to the height of twenty feet, 
is upright, and the boughs form a head ; leaves quite en¬ 
tire, wrinkled, petioled, alternate, half a foot long; flowers 
finall, yeilowifli ; the calyx becomes thick, fucculent, and 
ihow-white, covering to the middle a three-iided, black, 
Ihining, nut; the fruit is fweet and plealant. The French 
call raifmier de coude. Native of .St. Domingo, Ja¬ 
maica,, and Martinico. 
5. Coccoloba Hoganenfis: leaves roundifh, quite en¬ 
tire, finning, flat; racemes of the fruit ereft. This is a 
fmall upright branching tree, ten feet high ; leaves veined 
coriaceous, only half the lize of thofe on the firft fort. 
Native of Port-au-Prince and Leogane in St. Domingo. 
6. Coccoloba obtufifolia, or blunt-leaved lea-fide grape: 
leaves oblong, very obtufe. This is alfo a fmall, very 
branching, irregular, tree, about 12 feet high, with fmooth 
afli-coloured branches; flowers fmall, white; the leaflets 
of the calyx increafe and become fucculent, clofely em¬ 
bracing a dark Ihining nut, frequently naked at the end; 
however, they continue permanent, not uniting into a 
drupe ; whence this fpecies feerns nearly allied to poly¬ 
gonum : the fruit is allringent. Native of Carthagena ; 
flowering in Auguft. 
7. Coccoloba flavefcens, or yellow fea-fide grape : leaves 
lanceolate-oblong, blunt, with a point. A fmall branch¬ 
ing tree, twelve feet high; native of St. Domingo, at Port- 
au-Prince. 
8. Coccoloba punftata, or fpear-leaved fea-fide grape: 
leaves'lanceolate ovate. A tree fifteen feet high; native 
of Carthagena. 
o. Coccoloba emarginata : leaves cariaceous, roundifli, 
gafli-tmarginated. Native of the Welt Indies. It is gua- 
jabafa foliis rotundioribus of Houltoun’s Catalogue, and is 
in Mygind’s Herbarium. 
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10. Coccoloba Barbadenfis, or Barbadoes fea-fide grape: 
leaves cordate-ovate, waved. The leaves are very coria¬ 
ceous, five inches long ; wood red. 
11. Coccoloba tenuifolia, or fmall fea-fide grape: leaves 
ovate, membranaceous. This is of humbler growth than 
any of the former; the flowers and fruit are (mailer than 
thofe of the other fort. It recedes from the other fpe¬ 
cies in having membranaceous, not coriaceous, leaves; 
the petioles furrounded with a membrane inftead of a fti- 
pule, and not ifluing from their back; racemes termi¬ 
nating and quite Ample ; flowers fcattered and pedicelled. 
Native of Jamaica. 
12. Coccoloba auftralis, or fouthern fea-fide grape: 
leaves cordate-ovate-acute ; flowers polygamous. Native 
of New Zealand ; found at Charlotte iound. It feems ra¬ 
ther to be a polygonum by the drawing in fir Jofeph 
Banks’s colle£lion. 
13. Coccoloba Afiatica, or Afiatic fea-fide grape : fcan- 
dent; leaves oblong-ovate, veined ; racemes terminating. 
Native of Cochinchina, in hedges and among bullies. 
14. Coccoloba cymofa : fcandent; leaves oblong-ovate, 
veined ; flowers axillary and terminating in feflile cymes. 
This has the ilem, leaves, and fruftification, as in the 
foregoing fort; but the flowers are more numerous and 
heaped together in feflile cymes. Found in the hedges of 
Cochinchina. 
Propagation and Culture. The plants of all the forts are 
eafily propagated by feeds, when they can be obtained 
frefti from the places of their natural growth, for none of 
the forts have as yet produced either fruit or flowers in 
England. The feeds fliould be fown in fmall pots filled 
with earth from the kitchen-garden, and plunggd into a 
hot-bed. If the feeds are good, ind the bed of a proper 
temperature of warmth, the plants will appear in five or 
fix weeks, and will be fit to tranfplant in about a month 
after; when they fliould be fhalcen out of the pots, part¬ 
ing their roots carefully, and each planted in a feparate 
fmall pot filled with the like earth, plunging them into a 
liot-bed of tanners’ bark, being careful to (hade them in 
the day-timefuntil they have taken new root; after which 
they fliould be treated as other tender exotic plants, which 
require to be conftantly kept in the bark-ftoye. 
COCCONI'LEA,/. in botany. See Rhus'. 
COC'CULUS INDICES,/ Apoifonous berry, hereto¬ 
fore mixed with malt-liquors to make them intoxicating; 
which practice is now forbidden by aft of parliament. It 
is the fruit of the plant menifpermuni. 
COC'CUS, in entomology, a genus of infefts belonging 
to the order of hemiptera. The roltrum proceeds from 
the bread ; the belly is briftly hehind ; the wings of the 
male are ereft ; and the female has no wings. There are 
forty-three fpecies, denominated principally from the 
plants they frequent. The moil remarkable fpecies are: 
1. The coccus hefperidum, called the green-houfe bug, 
which is oval, oblong, of a brown colour, covered with a 
kind of vaniifh : it has fix legs ; with a notch and four 
bridles at the tail. It infefts the orange-trees and other 
fimilar plants in green-houfes. When young, it runs 
upon the trees ; but afterwards fixes on fome leaf, where 
■it hatches an infinity of eggs, and dies. The male is a 
very fmall fly. 
2. The coccus phalarides. The male of this fpecies is 
very fmall; but its antennas are long for its fize. The 
feet and body are of a reddifh colour, nearly pink, and 
fprinkled with a little white powder. Its two wings, and 
the four bridles of its tail, are (now white, and of thole 
filaments two are longer than the reft. It is to be found 
upon the fpecies of gramen which Linnaeus calls pkalaris 
Canarienfu . The female contrives to make along the 
ftalks of that grals, little nefts, of a white cottony fub- 
ftance, in which (he aepofits her eggs. The finall fila¬ 
ments of her tail are fcarce perceptible. 
3. The coccus cafti, a native of South America, is the 
famous cochinel infeft, fa highly valued in every part of 
the world for the incomparable beauty of its red colour, 
j which 
