the name by which it has been sent to Europe by Dr. Wal- 
lich, to whose indefatigable exertions nearly all we know of 
Nepal Botany is owing. We are sure the general feeling in 
the scientific world is, that this course should be pursued 
in all cases, not involving absolute errors; and we lament 
that the excellent writer of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 
should have been led, in a recent article in that work, into 
the unjust substitution of the name of Paliurus virgatus 
for that of Zizyphus or Paliurus incurvus, by which the 
plant has been sent to Europe by Dr. VVallicb, and is now 
universally known in gardens. Such a measure is certainly 
a most improper return for the liberality and confidence with 
which the treasures of Northern India have been unresery- 
edly transmitted for our advantage. 
A strong shrub, growing 8-10 feet high, and throwing up 
straight, smooth, mahogany-coloured rootshoots, armed 
with strong, straight, compressed, scattered, prickles; which 
on the young branches are hooked. Leaves very long, pin- 
nated, the upper ones bent abruptly back ; stipules small, 
setaceous ; stalk downy, rounded, above furrowed, with a 
few hooked, scattered prickles, which are usually single, 
but sometimes grow in threes; leaflets 5-7, oblong, sessile, 
serrated, above quite smooth and plaited, beneath covered 
with a very dense white down; the last leaflet 3-lobed, and 
often unequally twice serrate; its middle lobe the largest. 
Panicles axillary and terminal, cymose, much shorter than 
the leaves, the uppermost leafless; downy, with a very few 
prickles. Bracts very small, subulate. Calyx velvety, re- 
tuse at base, 5-parted, with ovate, acuminate, entire sepals. 
Petals obovate, bright purple, shorter than the sepals. Fruit 
blackish purple, of the middle size, in form depressed-sphe- 
rical, covered over with a fine bloom ; grains fleshy, with a 
sweet subacid taste. 
J. L. 
