Coccocypselum
(from kokkos, fruit, and kypsele, a vase; in allusion to the form of the fruit). SYNS. Sicelium, Tontanea. ORD. Rubiaceoe. A genus of creeping soft-wooded stove plants. Peduncles axillary, solitary, and in the alternate axils, each bearing a few-flowered head, surrounded by a short involucre. Leaves opposite, on short petioles; stipules subulate, solitary on both sides. The species are of easy culture in a mixture of peat and sand. Increased readily by separating the creeping stems.
C. campanuliflorum (bell-flowered). fl. bright pale blue, in axillary or terminal heads; throat yellow. l. roundish oval, hairy, stalked. Brazil, 1827. SYN. Hedyotis campanuliflora. (B. M. 2840.) C. cordifolium (heart-shaped-leaved). fl. white, pubescent, disposed in almost globose heads; peduncles ultimately equalling the petioles in length. l. cordate, obtuse, hairy. Brazil.
C. metallicum (metallic-leaved). fl. white. l. with a metallic lustre. Guiana, 1866.
C. repens (creeping).* fl. blue, almost sessile, collected in the axils of the leaves; heads few-flowered; peduncles very short while bearing the flowers, afterwards becoming more elongated. May. l. ovate, pubescent on both surfaces. West Indian Islands, 1793. Annual.