

Mamnus.] XLii. rhamne-s:. (M. A. Lawson.) 639 



A shrub, 6-8 ft., or small tree, 20 ft., with coarse spinous or unarmed branches. Leaves 

 lascicled at the ends of the congested branchlets, ^-2 in., oblong or elliptic-lanceolate 

 or obovate, acute or rounded at the apex, minutely tomentose beneath, entire or faintly 

 serrate. Flowers few, shortly pedicellate, fascicled in the axils of the leaves. Petals 

 flpathulate. Ovary 3-4-celled. Fruit \ in. long, obovpid-globose, 2-4-celled, 1 or 2 

 -01 the cells often abortive. — Boissier mentions only the small obovate-leaved plants, but 

 in many specimens the large and small leaves occur together. 



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. R- dahuricus, Pall. FL Eoss. ii. t. 61; armed, leaves glabrous, 

 petals 4. DC.Prodr. ii.25. K gloho^u^, Bunge Enum. Chin. 14. R. parvi- 

 lohus, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1857, ii. 150. R. polymorphus, Tutcm. Fl Baik. 

 mhur. I 269. E. virgatus, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i 604; Dm Prodr. 190; Brand. 

 ^or.Flor. 92; var. sylvestrh, Maxim, in Mem. Acad. Imp. Sc. Petersb.x. 11,13. 



^ PUNJAB, at Peshawur, Stewart; Temperate Himalaya, from Jamu and Simla, 

 toBhotan, alt. 4-9500 ft.; Westeen Peninsula, in the' Ghats.— Distrib. China, Japan. 



A tree, 15-20 ft., or shrub, usually much branched, very variable in habit and shape 

 ot the leaves. Branches divaricating, the spines terminating the brandies and so 

 often appearing in the forks. Leaves fascicled at the ends oi the exceedingly cougQ^icl 

 branchlets, f-2 in., obovate, acuminate, to narrow elliptical-lanceolate, slightly pubea- 

 ^nt beneath when young. - Flowers numerous, fascicled in the axils of the leaves. 

 J^tals spathulate. Fruit obovate-obicular, f in. long.— Closely allied to the European 

 ■«. catharticus . It seems hardly possible to define even as varieties the numerous forms 

 «»t have been proposed as species. R. virgatus, var. apnea, Max. in Mem. Acad. 

 ^- fetersb.f is a dwai*f form with scrubby squamose branches and very small 



Var. htrsutus ; a large shrub or small tree, leaves 2 in. B. hirsutus, W. S A. 

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4. 5,. -wigrhtll, W. d- A. Prodr. 164; leaves 3-5 by 1-2 in. 



glabrous, flowers fascicled, petals 5. Wight Ic. t. 159; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 jnal. Gm. Ixx. : Lalz. dc Gibs. Bonib. Fl. 50. ^ Ceanothus Wightiana, }i'alL 



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' " ESTERN Peninsula ; from the highest hills of the Concan southwards to the Nil- 



S^iiris. Ceylon; in the elevated parts of the Central province. -; .:r . / 



A large glabrous shrub, the younger parts drying black. Leaves elliptic or narrowly- 



^ ^Iliptic, shortly acuminate, closely serrate, subcoriaceous. Pedicels much shorter than 



"^« petiole. Petals cuneate-obovate, with a short apiculus, flat. Styles 3-4, diverging. 



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purpureas 



XX. 44: leaves 3-5 



"^y 1-2 in. glabrous, flowers fascicled, petals 0. Brandts For. Flor. 91. 



^'estern Himalaya; from MarrI to Kumaon, alt. 4500-10,000 ft. 

 , * iiiiJdle-sizcd unarmed tree. Branches purplish, with white spots ; the young 

 '^aves pubescent beneath otherwise glabrous. Leaves ovate, shortly acuminate, closely 



and finely, serrate, membranous. Flowers 2-3 ; pedicels \ in., nearly as long as the 

 petiole. Fruit ou pedicels A in., the size of a pea, subglobose, bitter and purgative. 



,^- a. trlqueter, WaU. in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey /lu 376 (uncler 



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 disposed in racemes 



^^^ANJAB, injthe Salt range ; Western Himalaya, from the Jhelum, alt. 3-4000 ft., 



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, 4 shrub, the young tranches pubescent. Leaves elbptic-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 



1^,"te or subacuminate, closely seiTate, the old leaves pubescent on the nerves only. 



f*°»er« sbortiv pedicellate, fascicled on the leaflets (very rarely leafj tenches, pu- 



W n??' -A««^ broadly obovate; emarginate. 



^V^ilich says of this species that the fruit is acutely 3-comered 



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Fruit J in , obovoid, 3-lobed.— Although 



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