. MR. M. P. EDGEWORTII—EFLORULA MALLICA. 201 
original specimens with those under the same name in the Linnean 
herbarium, and I find them to be a form much resembling Œno- 
plia, but differing in having more glabrous leaves, longer peduncles 
to the cymes, and double thorns. I see specimens in the Kew 
herbarium almost exactly similar, from the Concan and Ceylon, 
from Mr. J. Walker ; and it will be interesting if botanists on the 
spot, in Ceylon and the Concan, will ascertain if it be a different 
species or only a variety. 
There now remains to me to define the form most abundant in 
the Punjab. Iam not sure that it is anywhere truly wild, though I 
have observed it in the desert, but probably dropped by man or bird. 
This species is immediately noticed on entering the western 
part of the Cis-Sutluj States, where it first appears as a small tree 
(the branches not drooping as the typical wild or cultivated Ju- 
Juba), and with almost smooth leaves. There isa slight pubescence 
in young specimens, but they are almost glabrous when old. The 
fruit is globular and dark-coloured, not orange or red like the wild 
Ber, or green like the cultivated. The leaves are usually roundish 
ovate, more or less serrulate. The inflorescence varies from per- 
fect smoothness to thick tomentum. The cymes are usually short, 
sometimes reduced to a fascicle of flowers as in Lotus. 
At first I had referred this to Lotus, but on comparison I find 
it is quite distinct; and there are no specimens in the herbaria 
leading from one form to the other; while it is diflicult to con- 
sider this form to be only a variety of Jujuba as it has hitherto 
been defined. 
Wight and Arnott define it by the tawny colour of the under 
surface of the leaf; but in the cultivated specimens, as well as in 
other northern wild specimens, the pubescence is almost grey, 
while we see a similar difference in the colour of the tomentum in 
Œnoplia and nummularia. Therefore I believe it is more correct 
to consider it a well-marked varicty of Z. Jujuba. 
ZizypHus JuJUnA. Arbor, foliis ovatis serrulatis v., integris, spinis 
geminis, una longiore rectiuseula, altera uncinata, eymis brevibus, 
petalis unguiculatis concavis integris demum reflexis. 
a. spontaneus, Foliis subtus ferrugineo-tomentesis, drupis sphzricis 
flavo-aurantiacis. 
B. hortensis. Foliis late ovalibus 3-nerviis basi inaequalibus integerrimis 
nervis apice breviter mucronatis, sursum glabris, subtus cano-tomen- 
tosis, cymis subsessilibus ; pedicellis pedunculo longioribus vix petio- 
lum zquantibus, multifloris, alabastris depressis tomentosis sublanatis ; 
drupis ovatis viridibus vel flavescentibus. 
Hortis passim, 
