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634 XLiT. RHAMNEiE. (M. A. Lawson.) [Zizyphus. 



.'A shrub or small tree, with rigid spreading boughs and stiff branches, which are 

 often unarmed, the whole plant quite glabrous. Prickles usually geminate, the straight 

 one often over 1 in. long, stout. Flowers few, l^ascicled in the axils of the leaves. 

 Petals cBcullate. Disk thin, ohscurely 5-lobed. Ovarij 2-celled ; styles 2, ^t*^^ J^ 

 the middle. Fruit globose or oblong, succulent, red or black, shining. — Z. nitidaj Koxb., 

 of China, is said to have a yellow fruit. - \ ; ui • .. ' niVx>n \^- 



6. Z. ozypbylla, EdgeW. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 43 ; armed, leases 

 1-2 in. obliquely ovate acute or subacuminate glabrous on both sides, 

 fruit eUiptic | in. long. £ra7idis Far. Fl. 85. Z. acuminata, BoyU IlL h 





.168 {name only). 



. Hazarah, Falconer; Temperate Himalaya, in Sirmor and Garwhal, ascending to 



6000 ft, Falconer, Fdgeworthj &c. ■' . .;v.>\ v.. ' «^ 

 A shrub or small tree, 25-30 ft., resembling Z, vulgaris in habit; whole P^^^y*!^^'! 

 glabrous. Prickles usually geminate, the straight one 4 in. long, slender. ^f«je 

 finely crenate-serrate.. J^'lowers fascicled in the axils of the leaves. Petals ana aisK 

 as in Z vidgaris. Fruit 1-celled, l-seeded, subfieshv, black, very acid ; stone ttnu ana 

 crustaceous, flattened/' -' ^'-"■■'■- -^ ' > ' ' - '■ '^ '' 





>v^ 7. Z. CCnoplia, i/i7Z. (?art7. i)ic«. N'o. 3 : 



very obliquely ovate-lanceolate acute with ash 



long silky appressed fulvous hairs beneath, fruit i in. diam. BO. rroar. u. 



Bon Prodr. 190 ; 



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zi; jioaso, i^i. ijict. i. 611 : Wall. Cat. 4246; JJon rroar. ^»^'^ ";r 17 

 Protfr. 163; Balz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 49; Thwaites Enum. 74; ^««f/.' 

 Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixix. ; Brandis For. Fl. 86. Z. albens, BoxIj. J^l; ^^-J: 

 «^^7. u, Z. celtidifolia, X>C. Pro^r. ii. 20. Z. ferruginea, ^^^^f „f 'S' 

 tt,,4246 B,i7i_pa)'<. Z. Napeca, Boxb. Fl. Jnd.i. 612, nf JW-^" ^^ 

 Nov. Sr>. 159.i!;Z. pallens, Wall. Cat. 4247?. Z. pedicellat-' ^nU. ijo^ 

 4243. Z. rufula, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 643. Z. scandens, 



Boxb. 



'fi^W^-V^^MMl' Cat. nm'- Ehamnus"(EnopL„, ^^ ~. - .., .„..„.-. ^ 



. ^Throughout the hotter parts of India, from the Panjab and the N.Wj. Himalaya 

 Assam and southwards to Ceylon and Malacca.— Distkib. Tropical Asia 

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A Bhrub with straggling often climbing branches, the young ones stri^ose of. °^^" 



covered with a rust-coloured pubescence! Leaves crenate-serrate. 1^^"^%^°']: J^ 



very short, recurved. Cymes under J in. long. Flowers glabruus 'within. ,p"^ ^t* 



tn angular, cucullate. Ot^ary 2 -celled ; styles 2, united to above the imdclle. ^ 

 1- rarely 2-celled, black and shining, globose or obovoid ; stone woody or bony. . 



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Flowers in pedunculate axillary 





a Z. xylopyrus, WiUd. Sp. PI. 1104; armed or on ^^^ joujf ^ 

 branches often unarmed, branches inflorescence and fruit covered wu 

 short greyish tomehtum, leaves 1^-3^ in. broadly-elliptic orbicular qr 



^^ate glabrous and^ark above covered with a soft P^e^ubescenct bene^g 



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Iruit lA-1 in. diam. Roxh 



Prodr. ii. 21; W. S A. Prodr. i62: Balz,' dh Gibs. Bof>. ^-^'^ 

 UwaitesBnum. 74; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. And. Gm. Ixviii. ; ^^^'fjleata, 



Fl, Ind, : 

 iica. Roxh 



Schult, iiyst, V. 338; BC. Prodr, iL 21. > Z. ruminata, ^^^'^V^LvrttS, 

 gai. 4236. Z. rotundifuUa, 7iWt iVW. Sp, im. aBX^s^^^^ ^^^^^ 



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^Nobth-West India, Boyle, ^d^eicortA.;'NiP>L,'#flKw:;i,- Banda KaJ ^^^^^ 

 OuDE, ascending to 2000 ft. ; Behab, Western PeninsijlI; from the topcat 

 wards. Cetlon, in hot dry places. ' " %.^^i i^s *'" " , T.ni-^s slig''*'^ 



A large straggling shrub or stftaB^ tree, often gregarious, deciduous. ^^"^ tf on* 

 obh^ue, rounded or subcordate at the base, serrulate. PrickUs usually gen"" 



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