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RHAMNE^. V. Berchemia. VI. Ventilago. VII. Segeretia. 



Zizyphus floribundus, Wall. fl. ind. 2. p. 368. Flowers small, 



white. 



Biindle-fli 



Fl. May, July. Shrub rambl. 



v^. S. Native of the East Indies, in forests and other uncul- 

 tivated places, amongst the mountains, very common in the north 

 of Bengal. Roxb. cor. 1. t. 76. Flowers numerous, small 



Q -r* - / ,j^ . ./ ' ^ - --* ^^.>^^^. ^*^v^^«. wv^*. i. L. (V. X luwcio iiuiijcruus, small. 



u ^^,^^^'^^^'^, (Brogn m mem. rhamn. p. 50.) unarmed, greenish-white. This plant is generally dioecious. The smell o 

 smooth, clmibmg; leaves oblong-ovate, acute, glaucous, quite - - - -_x & / 



entire; racemes terminal, simple ; flowers fascicled. ^.^. G. 

 Native of Nipaul, about Gosainsthan. Zizyphus flavescens. 

 Wall. fl. ind. 2. p. 367. Flowers white. 



Yellowish Berchemia. Fl. July. Shrub cl. 



4 B. calopiiy'lla; climbing; armed with solitary, short, 



recurved prickles ; leaves ovate-oblong, smooth, glossy, 3- 



nerved, veinless, minutely crenulated ; corymbs terminal, pani- 

 cled. ^ - -- . - - - 



me nowers is very ottensive, not unlike that of Sterculia fce'tida. 

 While young tlie stem and flexuous branches are striped with 

 white lines, which elegantly contrast with the smooth green bark, 

 not unlike what is observed in A'cer striatum. This is most 

 probably the Funis vhnhiaUs of Rumph. amb. 3. t. 2. 



Var. /3, denticidata (Willd. in nov. act. berl. 3. p. 417.) 



T? 



^. S. Native of Pulo-Pinang. Zizyphus calo- 



leaves crenulated, pubescent beneath. 

 East Indies near Samulcotta. 



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. S. Native of the 



phylla. Wall. fl. ind. 2. p. 367. 



Beautlfi 



Fl. Jan. Shrub cl. 



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Stems ereet. 



5 B. lixeVta (D. C. prod. 2. p. 23.) branches downy, un- dicels in fascicles. 



armed; leaves ovate, repand, netted beneath; flowers herma- 



* G^- Native of China. Rhamnus lineatus. Lin. 



phrodite. 



Far. y, hracteata (Heyne, mss.) floral leaves long, villous. 

 Tj . ^. S. Native of Silhet in the East Indies. 



Madras Ventilago. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1822. Shrub cl. 



2 y. cixera'scens ; leaves full of parallel veins, oval, acute, 

 quite entire, smooth, cinereous beneath ; racemes terminal; pe- 



I2 . ^- S. Native of Java. Rhamniis cine- 

 rascens? Blum, bijdr. 1141. 



amoen. 4. p. 308.— Osb. it. 219. t. 7. Leaves of a beautiful 



Cinereous Ventilago. Shrub cl. 



yellowish-green colour beneath, with red veins 

 Zirterf-leaved Berchemia. 



Flow 



whitish. 



Fl. June, July. Clt. 1804. Sh. 8 ft. 



6 15.? Poirettia'na (D. O, prod. 2. p. 23.) branches pubes- 

 cent ; stipulas small, spiny ; leaves ovate, netted ; flowers solitary ; 

 fruit roundish. T2 . S. Native of the East Indies. Rhamnus 

 lineatus, Poir. diet. 4. p. 473.— Phik. aim. 1. p. 122. f. 4, 



PoiretVs Berchemia. Shrub 6 feet. 



7 B.Loureiria^na (D. C. prod. 2. p. 23.) branches smooth, 

 procumbent, with scattered prickles ; leaves ovate, somewhat 

 crenated, flat ; flowers 10-petalled, pentandrous ; drupes oblono-- 

 ovate, scabrous, 2-celled. Tj . G. Native of Cochin-china, m 

 hedges and among bushes. Rhamnus lineatus. Lour. fl. coch. 



3 V. oBLONGiFOLiA (Blum. bijdr. 1144.) leaves oblong, acu- 

 minated, obliquely rounded at the base, serrated, tomentose in 

 the axils of the veins beneath ; racemes interrupted, leafy. I2 •^' 

 S. Native of Java. 



Oblong-leaved Ventilago. 



Shrub cl. 



Cidt. See Berchemia for cvdture and propagation. 



M 



her of the Royal Agricultural Society of Paris, a vegetable 

 ^physiologist). Brogn. mem. Rhamn. p. 52. 



Lin. syst. 



Mo 



Calyx pitcher-shaped, 

 5-cleft (f. 4. F. a.). Petals 5, convolute or cucullate (f 4. F. e.). 

 Stamens bearing ovate, 2-celIed anthers (f. 4. F. c). Disk 



DrunP .111 ro f^7^'-«^!^'"te, numerous on the peduncles. fleshy, cup-shaped, girding the ovary. Ovary almost immersed 

 diurTtIc decoction of the root is deobstruent and m the disk, 3-celled (f. 4. F. d.). Style short, thick (f. 4. F. ^.). 



Fruit unknown. Stigmas 3, sessile, or 3-lobed. — Shrubs with 



diuretic. 



Loureiro's BcrcJiemia. Shrub 8 feet, trailin^r. 



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N.B. B. Burmanniana, D. C. prod. 2. p. 23., Rhamnus, &c. 

 Burm. zeyl. p. IDS. t. 88. belongs to Euphorbiacea; not far from 

 /inarachne. 



Cult. B. voluhilis will grow in any common soil, and is well 

 adapted for bowers or trellis-work. It may be increased by 

 ripened cuttings, and slips of the root, planted under a hand- 

 glass, or by laying down the young shoots. The other species 

 will grow freely in a mixture of loam and peat, and ripened 

 cuttings will strike root in a pot of sand, under a hand-glass. 



slender branches, which are usually splnescent. Leaves nearly 



opposite, on short petioles, lanceolate, or oblong, serrated, 



feather-nerved. Flowers small, solitary, or glomerated, disposed 



in simple or branched, interrupted, stiff, spreading, axillary, or 

 terminal spikes. 



S]iiny. 



1 S. THEE^sANs (Brogn. in mem. rhamn. p. .53.) branches 

 divaricate, spiny at the apex ; leaves ovate, smooth, serrulated ; 

 flowers somewhat panicled, glomerated, in terminal spikes. \ . G. 

 Native of China. Rhamnus theesans, Lin. mant. 207. R. thea, 

 Osb. itin. 232. Flowers greenish ? The poor in China make 



VI. VENTILA'GO (fro™ rcntilo, lo be exposed .o wind, and use of .he leave/of i plTnUnsiead of Tl.e'^, ue i^rprobaWy 

 ag.. to dr,ve away ; m allus.on to the fru.t bemg winged, which from its astrinsenev and Lrfnme ThL !ll ^ T !' ^ ^ 



p. 223. t. 49. 

 p. 38. 



Lin. syst. 



causes them to be scattered away by the wind). Gsert. fruct. 1. 



Brogn. mem. Khamn. p. 50. D. C. prod. 1. 



Pentdndria, Monogynia. Calyx spreading, 5- 

 cleft (f. 4. D. c). Petals 5, obovate, convolute (f. 4. D. a.). 

 Stamens exserted (f. 4. D. i.). Anthers ovate, 2-celled. Disk 

 fleshy, flat. Ovary immersed in tbe disk, 2-celled. Style com- 

 pressed, short, bidentate (f. 4. D.^".). Fruit indebiscent, woody 



from its astringency and perfume. They call it Tia. 



/5 ^ . 



Cours. hot. cult. 6. p. 258. 



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Dum. 



(^ 



D. h.), 1 -celled, 1 -seeded, with the upper part drawn 



out into a wing (f. 4. D. ^•.).— Large, climbing shrubs, with 

 stiff smooth branches, alternate, short-stalked, coriaceous, smooth 



Tea Segeretia. Fl. May, June. Clt. ? Shrub 4 feet. 



2 S. spicaVa (Brogn! in mem. rhamn. p. 53.) branches cy- 

 hndrical, smooth, lateral ones spiny ; leaves lanceolate, acumin- 

 ated, serrulated, quite smooth, with 2 stipulas at the base of 

 each ; spikes simple, stiff, divaricate, axillary, and terminal. 



►2 . S. Native of Peru. 



AS^/cafe-flowered Segeretia. Shrub 4 feet. 



3 S. Blu'mii ; leaves veiny, nearly opposite, ovate-lanceo- 

 Jate, acummated, ratlier cordate at the base, serrulated, shining 



serrulated leaves, which are oblique at the base, and with the abovr vn nr .' ^'^^^'^V «* tne base, serrulated, shining 



flowers disposed in long axillary racemes, which a e eithe .n^i! tlXlTU^^'l ^furfuraceous beneath ; spikes axillary, fib- 



flowers disposed in long axillary racemes, which are either soli- 

 tary, twin, or in threes. 



I V. Madraspata'na (Gaert. 1. c.) leaves bifarious, ovate- 

 oblong, serrulated ; racemes disposed in terminal panicles, h . 



Native of the East Indies and Java. ¥hrmnus'SrmiX Roth 

 nov. spec. 153.? Blum, bijdr. 1140. 



Blume's branched Segeretia. Shrub 6 feet. 









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