Scutia.] xLii. RHAMNE^. (M. A. Lawson.) 641 



Wight Ic. t. 1071. Catha zeylanica, G. Don Gen. Syst. ii. 10. Ceanothus 

 circumscissa, GcBrtn. Frud. ii. t. 106 ; Wall. Cat. 4266 ; DC. Prodr. ii 

 n^' ;, zeylanica, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 153 ; Wall. Cat. 42G7 ; 

 iJl'., Frodr. il 30. Celastrus zeylanica, Both in Rom. & Schult. 



7 • \ W ' ^^- ^P- 398 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 9. Rliamnus circumscissus, 

 ^Jnn./. Suppl. 152 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 603. R. lucidus, Roxb. Fl.Ind. i. 605. 

 K. myrtmus, Burm. FL Ind. 60.— Eubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8300. Khamnea ? 

 lucida, Wall. Cat. 4250. r - 



tl, 1?^*'^' ^aZZicA; Western Peninsula, from the Concan southwards; Ceylon, in 

 we hot dry parts of the plains. — Distrib. Mauritius, ^o:c&. 



branches straggling, armed with suboppobite recurved prickles, more rarely un- 

 *^ed. ieave5 |-1 4 in. long, orbicular or obovate entire, or crenate, 



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8. SAGERETZA, Brongn. 



Unanned or spinous shrubs, with slender subscandent or rigid opposite 

 ^ subopposite branches. Leaves subopposite, penninerved, nerves arched 

 blowers very small, sessile on the terminal leafless paniculate branches. 

 y^oiyx 5-fid, tube hemispherical ; lobes acute, keeled within. Fetids 5, 

 ^wed, hooded. Stamens 5, equalling the petals. Disk cup-shaped, lining 

 ^e calyx-tube, margin free 5-lobed, Ovary sunk in the disk, but free 

 ^m it, 3-celled ; style short, 3-grooved, stigmas 3 capitate. Fruit globose, 

 felled, 3-seeded, coriaceous, indehiscent.— Distrib. Species about 11 ; 

 ^tiveg of Central and Eastern Asia, Java, and the hotter parts of North 



. 1- S. hamosa, Brong 



?y2in. pllinfjV-..Kl/^Ti^ oK, 



360 : leaves 4-5 



?y2in. elliptic-oblong shortly acuminate serrate glabrous on both sur- 

 faces. Berchemia ? hamosa, IVall. Cat. 4253. Zizyphus hamosa. Wall, in 



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^^PAL, Wallich; Westebn Peninsula ; Pulney Mis., Fi^A^— Distrib. Formosa. 

 A large shrub, with long straggling glabrous branches, unarmed or with very stout short 



^ leavps 7ii 



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ves. Fruit ? 



2, S. opposltlfolla, Brongn. in Ann. Fat Sc. ser, 1, x. 360; leaves 

 T^ in. ovate-lanceolate acute or subacuminate glabrous and dark green 

 p^v'e covered beneath when young with a dense woolly tomentum. 



-^«*inims filiformis, Both Nov. Sp. 153. K parviflorus, K(€in in no^ii. <v 

 J^^it Syst V. 295 : DC. Prodr. ii. 28. K. rigynus, Don Prodr. 190. 

 ''^zj^Phus oppositifolia, Wall in Roxh. Ft Ind. ed. Carey, u. 370. 



v-JW. Indja and Subtropical Himalaya ; from Peshawnr and R-ijaori eastward to 

 jjj^' alt. 2-5000 ft, ; Westebn Peninsula, from the Concan southwards.— Distkib, 



A shrub or small tree, with loner slender subsarmentose spinous brapches, tomenfose 

 Pj7 young. Leaves with 5-8 patrs of nerves; petiole 4 in. Flowers m large termmal 

 «""cie8, f-^y^n turbinate, { in. long, black, succulent, sweetish. 



.^. S. theezans, Bromn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1 xS60: leaves U-2m. 

 2r °^ elliptic minutely serrate dark green and glabrous above pabescent 

 Juf young beneath. Brandis For. Flor. 95. Sageretia, WaU. Cat. 9010. 

 ^■""nus theezans, Zwi«. J/a«^. 207. 



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