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The CoNCAKVat Chorla Ghat, Dalzel. 



7^ "Leaves 3-5 by |-1| in., lanceolate, acute or Bubacummate, crenate, glabrons, with 



about 3^ pairs of costal nerves. Fruit f — Mr. Bentham, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 77, 



"suggests that this may be only a side shoot of V. calycvlata, but the sliape of the leaves, 



the number of the costal nerves, and Dalzel's supposition that the fruit is larger than in 



madraspat 



#^:^ ' ' ' 2. SMITTKIIA, Seeman. 



landent shrubs. Flotoers 





^.^«««v,Ax« wux «.-.o, J. i/i/wc/ o xaav;n;icu ui auiiUciry 111 tilt? cijuia ui i^j^y 



leaves. Calyx 5-fid ; lobes spreading ; tube obconicaL Petals 5, cucullate, 

 broadly emarginate, 2-lobed. Stamens 5, not included in the folds of the 

 petals, filaments incurved. Disk 5-angled^ flat. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, 

 recurved. Fruit a 1-celled 1-seeded capsule, dehiscing down the middle, 

 compressed, not winged. Seed flat, large, exalbuminous.— Distrib. Sp. 2, 

 one Malayan, the other Fijian. ; . ,. .. :,^ . . . k. -, 



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Tenasserim, Heifer. 



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th fulvous hairs. Leaves 3-4 by 1-1 4 in., elliptic-lanceolate, 

 eometimes shortly acuminate, crenate, slightly pilose on the nerves beneath otherwise 

 glabrous. Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves; Fruit (inunature) U by | in., 

 oblong, conaceous, covered with dense silky ful vow > hairs ^ ^ ' /■ -' ^ - - v 







3. ZZZYPKUS, Juss. ..'^.i i^i/- .v; 





►ften decumbetit 



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\vitli Sharp, straight or hooked prickles (transformed stipules). Leaves sub- 

 bifiirious, alternate, usually coriaceous. Flowers fascicled, or in sessile or 

 pedanculated cymes. , Ca^yx 5-fid, -lobes spreading, keeled within; 

 tube broadly obconical. Petals 5, rarely 0, cucullate, deflexed. Bisk 5-10- 

 lobed, flat or pitted, with a free margin. Stamens 5. Ovary sunk 



- — __, „„. „. ^^„„v«, r,±i,ix a lice margin, ^mmens o. ■ %jvary eui«>. 



in the disk and confluent with it at the base, 2-4-celled ' styles 2-4, 

 free, or more or less united. Fridt fleshy or dry, with a woody or bony 

 1-4-seeded 1-4-celled stone. Seed plano-convex, albumen 0, or very 

 scanty.— Distrib. Species about 50, found in tropical Asia and America, 

 and the temperate regions of both hemispheres ''• • ' • " 



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Flowers in sessile cymes or fascicled in the axils of 



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%}; ' Z^P^^y ^^^^' ^^<^t, m. 318; usually armed, leaves 1-2^ by 

 t-2 m elliptic-ovate ovate or suborbicular dark green and glabrous above, 

 covered beneath with a dense woolly pale-coloured tonientum, fruit 

 fc* ^ .^' P^' ^''^^^- "• 21 ; RoxK FL Ind. i 608 ; WaU. Cat 4244 ; 

 iii.t ^h^^^").}^^^ ^^'J/'^ ^^- t' 99; ^ook Journ. Bot. i. 320, t. cxL 

 (1834) ; Dah. ikGihs. Bomb. FLid ; ThwaUes Enum, 74 : Bedd. Fl SylvaU t. 

 cxlix, ; Bom. FL Onmt ii, 13 : Brandis For. Fl<yr. 86, t 17. Z. maun- 



l^]^^l ^^'**. ^^^^- ^^ ^«^- G^* 4245: DC. Prodr. ii. 21. & Sororia, 

 hchidt. Syst. V 337; i) 6\ ProcZr. ii. 21. vZ. trinervius, i?o<A iTov. >Sp. 168, 

 excl. var. ^. RhamnUS Jujuba, LinM Fl. ZeyL 36 ; i?Ae^6 iZorf. ifaZ. iv. t. 40. 



^ ., Throughoirt India, fVom tlie N.W, frontier, SiNDH,and^1)ase ^)f th^ ^ 



,:., ^Kvix)x. -and Malacca; wild and eitensively ouItivated.—DisxBiB.: AflFghani|tan, 



tromcal Afiica, Uie Malay Archipelago, China, Australia. -.f:^...,ti ^ ^^^^^ ^ ^" ' - 

 AsmaU tree 30-50 ft.; young branches and flowers covered witt a dense fiiscous 

 tomentum. Pnckles solitary and straight, or geminate and then one shorter and 

 recurved. Cymes^ in. long. Calyx glabrous within. Petals subspathulate, very con- 

 cave, reflexed. Disk of lOcrooved lobes. Ovarii 9,o(^]UA - ftUlpq 9. united to the 



Ovary 2-celIed; stvlea 2, united 



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