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642 XLii. RHAMNE^. (M. A, Lawson.) [SagerOk. 



The Salt and Suliman Ranges, alt. 2^000 ft., Fleming; Hazaea, Stewart; 

 "Western Himalaya, alt. 3-8000 ft., from Kashmir to Simla.— Distrib. Beluchistan, 



China. \ '' ^ r/ . i ' if 



. A sarmentose spinous shrub with long slender branches. Flowers m long slender 



.interrupted spikes. Spines and flower branches squarrose, or at the ends of the pendant 



. branches. Fruit the size of a pea, globose, succulent, irregularly rugose, dark brown.— 



. The fruit is sweet to the taste and extensively eaten, the leaves are used as a sub- 



Blitutefortea. . ^''' 'll 



Var. diospiry folia ; a scrubby shrub not sarmentose, leaves shorter and broader, 



flower-spikes shorter. S. theezans, Brand. For. Ft, 95. Khamnea? diospynfpiia, 



Wall Cat. 4251.— Ava,TraZZicA. 



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tch. in Joum. Linn. Soc. viii. 62"; leaves 

 entire glabrous above covered with a dense 

 4r-8-nerved very shortly petioled. Bom. i ^ 



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North Western [ndli ; the Salt Kange, Jhelum and Peshawu 

 DiSTRTB. Westward to Persia and Arabia. 



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A scrubby shrub, with numerous spinose pubescent branches. Flowers in *^™^"^ 

 and axillary panicles. Fruit the size of a small pea, ovoid, 3-lobed, succulen^ blacK, 

 with raised longitudinal lines.— The fruit is sweet and much eaten by the Mgtians. 

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 by Don to be East Indian. 



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Erect sTirabs. • leaves alternate. Flowers in very short axillary cjmea 

 Cali/x 5-fid; tube hemispherical' Petals 5, clawed, Springing from tne 

 margin of the disk, hooded. Stamens 5. Z)is/fe fleshy, filling the calyx-tiioe- 

 Owfry sunk in the disk and confluent with it, 3-celled ; style 3-cien , 

 stigmas reflexed. Fruit the size of a pea, subglobose, surrounded below tne 

 middle by the remains of tha PalT7v.+nKo ^.o^Ufi] cells 1 -seeded, tafOi^y 





hole p 



dehiscent.— DisTitiB. Species 10, chiefly tropical American. \, 



1. C. aslatica, Brongn. in Ann. Sc Fat. ser. 1, x. 369; y 

 quite glabrous, leaves 1^-2 in. by f-lj in. acuminate. W. & A. . 

 ^vjht III. 1. 1. 74; Lalz. <k Gibs. Bomh. Fl 60 ; Thwaites Enuin. ro , -— 

 Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixix. C. javanica, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. pt \^£ 

 Ceanothus asiaticus, LamTc. Ill t 129. f. 2: DC. Prodr. ii. 30; ^f^'^n 



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Jrodr. IV 32, Pomaderris capsularis, G. Don Gen. Syst u. 39; 

 Zci/lan. t 48. Ehamnus acuminata, Colebr. in Roxh. FL Ind. i. 615. 



Eastern and Western Peninsulas; from the Concan and Tcnasserim southwa ^ 

 Cestlon, north end of the Isla ^ ^^ , ^ . -..-i:- cW Afnca. ... 



Unarmed. Lpavpn 9. hv 



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NiNSULAs; from the Concan and Icnassenm b^^utM 



md.-DiSTRiB. Java, Borneo, Australia, ^-^VirS inem- 

 in., ovate, subacummate, crcnate-serrate, g^aDr^!* , j,^. 

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and flowers Lispidly-pubescent, leaves 1^-2^ by |-I in. 



^Leaves ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, hispidly-pubeecent on botb siaea. 

 nearly sessile, broadly oval, emarginate, Vevv concave. Fruit f ""'" 



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