ANAMIRTA

(Lat), n. f. A?n(a*n)-a3-muSr(mer)'tas. Fr., anamirte, Ger., Fischkôrnerstrauch, t., Sp.. anamirta. A genus of arene per a eone plants, established by Cole brook, having druaceous fruit and 6-sepaled flowers which are dicecious, the male aving numerous stamens fused into one parcel, and the female flowers 8 ovaries attached to a hemispherical receptacle. [B, 19.J— A. coceulus [Wight and Arnott],.A. paniculata [Cole brook], A. racemgsa [Cole brook]. Syn.: Menispermum cocculus [Linnæus) (seu lacunosum [Lamarck], seu heteroclitum [Roxburgh], seu nionadelphum {Roxburgh]), Cocculus lacunosus [De Candoile] (seu suberosus [De Candolle)), Tuba baccifera [Rumphius). A species growing in the East Indies. It is a climbing shrub, with light-gray bark resembling cork in structure, thick, coriaceous, cordate leaves having hairy tufts growing from the junctures of the nerves, and paniculate flowers. The reniform drupaceous fruit is the cocculus indicus (q. v.). [B, 19, 172, 212.]