Chiococca
(from chion, snow, and kokkos, a berry; the berries of C. racemosa are white, hence it is called Snowberry). Snowberry. ORD. Rubiaceoe. Stove evergreen shrubs, generally with a climbing habit. Racemes axillary, opposite, simple, or panicled. Leaves opposite, ovate, or oblong, acute, glabrous. They thrive in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand. Cuttings strike root freely in sand, under a hand glass, in heat.
C. anguifuga (snake-defeating). fl. white; racemes panicled. June. l. ovate, acuminated; stipules very short, broad, each ending in a short point. h. 3ft. to 4ft. Brazil, 1824.
C. racemosa (racemose).* fl., corollas at first white and scentless, but at length becoming yellowish and sweet-scented; racemes many-flowered. February. l. ovate, lanceolate, smooth; stipules mucronate. h. 4ft. to 6ft. West Indies, 1729.