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Tmjphus.] xLii. RHAMNE-E. (M. A. Lawson.) 637 



soUtaiy, recurved, sliort, Lase broad. Flowers densely pubescent, in long pedunculated 

 cymes, forming on the usually leafless branches long terminal panicles. Val^x puberu- 

 wus inside. JKsk 5-lobed, hairy. Ovary 2.celled ; styles 2, united below the middle, 

 'fruU fleshy, with a 1-celled, 1-seeded, very thin crustaceous stone.— Dalzel and Gibson 

 speak of the fruit as being very palatable, and aflFording great support to the inhabitants 

 01 the Ghauts from March to the middle of May. Brandis calls it mawkish and 

 ^cuhar. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, ii. 73, identifies Z. Horsfieldii, Mia. 

 ^l Ind. Bat. i. 643, with Z. glabra, Eoxh., but that species is closely allied to Z. 

 ^apeca, i., if not a variety of it. 





18. Z. ? elegrans, Wall in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 366 ; Cat. 4233 ; 

 an erect nearly unarmed shrub, branches filiform pubescent, leaves \\ 

 Y^ in. obliquely-ovate-lanceolate obtusely acuminate finely crenate quite 

 glabrous witli 3 prominent uubranched nerves, 



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 The flowers and fruit are not known. 







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UKDETERMINABLE AND EXCLODED SPECTE3. 



Z. BxENcmA, WaU. Cat 4249, from Monghir, and Z. globularis, 4248, from Birma 



^e undetermmable. " . " 



**• 1>HUNDER, Boyle 111 i. 168, name only is undetermined. 



Z. Lotus, Lamh; Boxh, FL Ind. i. 610, is ambush allied to Z. nummtdaria, a na- 

 ™ of S. Europe, N. Africa, and Arabia. 





Z. NiTiDA, _ffox6. FL Ind. i. 609, is a native of China. 





Z. Spina-christi, Z^,, 13 a tree cultivated in gardens in N.W. Indi^ allied to Z. 

 ''^juha, it is a native of W. Asia and Egvpt. . - : ^ 



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Shrubs witb armed often scandent brandies. Leaves alternate, penni- 

 ^ervedj nerves straight, parallel- -F/oz^^rsbermaplirodite or polygamous, 

 J^cicledj fascicles disposed in axillary spikes or panicles, or in the axils of 

 the leaves, or clustered at the ends of tbe branches., Calyx%jia^ely 6-fid ; 

 ^P^ hemispherical or turbinate. Petals 5, rarely 6, obovate or cucullate. 

 ■^ lining the calyx-tube, margins free., .0 wry sunk in the disk, but free 

 jomit, 2-celled, narrowed into the bifid style. Frtiit a hard or fleshy 

 ^rune, girt at the base with the calyx-tube ; stone crustaceous or woody, 

 ^celled, 2-seeded. . Seed linear-oblong, albumen fleshy.— Djstrib. Species 

 about 10, scattered through the tropics of Asia, Africa, and America. 



^: S. floribunda, Wall. Cat. 4256 ; leaves 2-4 in. ovate acute, 

 petiole f-i in.j panicles very large terminal. Braiidis For. Fl 91. B. 

 ,J?^ Wall. Cat. 4257 Zizyphus floribunda, Wall, in Hoxb. FL Ind. ed. 



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Eastern Beaoal and Khasia 



j^^KOPicAL Himalaya, from the Jhelum to Sikki'm; E. 



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A large erect or dimbing shrub or small tree. BraricJies glahtons, glatlcbns wlieQ 

 Jjong.' Stipules 2-fid. Floicers sessile or very shortly pedicellate, about 6 m a fascicle. 

 ^%* 5-fid; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute. Fetals 6,^ spathiilate. Fmtt J in. long 

 gPle, cylindric— Very closely allied to if not identical with B. racemdm, Sieb., of 



^aand^ Japan (5ra«Jw}. . -V. r. ^.:,^v>^.^V:'-iin■^''^^ .."^'; - 



• B. flavesceiis, Jfa//. Caf. 4255; leaves 2-3 m. ovate-oblong 



^^te cuspidate petiole | to 1 in., flowers in short^terminal racemes or 

 Wnicles jisually under 3 in. Zizyphus flavesc^ns, WaU. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

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