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COCCOLOBA DIVERSIFOLIA. 
Various-leaved Seaside Grape. 
~ OCTANDRIA DIGYNIA.—Nar. Orv. POLYGONEE: 
Grn. Cuar.—Calyx quinquepartitus, coloratus. Corolla 0. Bacca calycina, 
monosperma.—W,. 
Coccoloba diversifola ; foliis ramusculorum ovatis, ramorum ovato-cor- 
datis.— Jacq. 
C. diversifolia, Jaco. Am. Bot. p. 114. t.'76.—Wixtp. Sp. Pl. v. ii. p. 458. 
A small tree, reaching in the stove of the Liverpool Botanic Garden to the 
height of eight or ten feet, compact in its mode of growth. Branches 
cylindrical, greenish-brown, the young ones green. Leaves varying from 
 ovate-cordate, as are the greater number, to ovate, as in those growing 
upon the ultimate branchlets; subcoriaceous, smooth, bright green, ra- 
ther shining, glabrous, the margin quite entire, the extremity rather ob- 
tuse, veined, petiolated ; petioles short, flattened above. 
Racemes, or rather spikes, from four to six inches in length, filiform, green. | 
Flowers rather distantly placed, in pairs (vide Fig. 4.), each pair inclosed _ 
in a somewhat truncated, membranaceous bractea, nearly sessile 3 one 
flowering long before the other. Calyx deeply divided into five ovate 
lobes, about half inferior, pale yellow-green, concave, slightly tubercled 
externally, at length reflexed: its zstivation imbricating. Corolla none. 
Stamens eight, scarcely longer than the segments of the calyx, filiform, 
all united into one annular body at the base around the pistil. Anthers 
didymous, pale yellow. Pistil: Germen more than half inferior. Styles 
three, tapering upwards, curved at the extremity, and obtuse at the 
point ; Stigmas obtuse. 
Native of the West Indies (St Domingo, according to 
JACQUIN), and received by Messrs SHEPHERD at the excel- 
lent Botanic Institution of Liverpool under the name of Coc- 
coloba barbadensis. From that species, however, as it is fi- 
gured and. described by Jacquin, Obs. t. 8. who only appears 
to have known the plant without flower, it differs in the even, 
not waved margin of its leaves; and it appears so entirely to 
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