«604 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Rhamnus, 
Leaves sub-opposite, round-obcordate, dentate, polished. 
Umbellets axillary. 
A native of the forests of India, where its long straggling 
branches armed with the most acute, strong, poouiead iti 
give the most cautious travellers infinite pain and trouble. 
Flowering season the months of January, February, and — 
March; the seeds take nearly a year to ripen. 
Trunk short, soon dividing into many, long, straggling, 
scandent branches; with numerous, diverging, alternate, 
round, smooth, armed branchlets. Spines on the lateral 
branches axillary, solitary, rather longer than the petioles, 
coloured, very sharp,anda little recurved ; the leading shoots 
are unarmed. Leaves sub-opposite, short-petioled, round- 
cordate, dentate, firm and polished on both sides; about three- 
quarters of an inch each way. Stipules small, caducous. 
Umbellets axillary, solitary, very small; from ten to twelve- 
flowered, the floriferous axills bear no thorns. Calyx globe- 
campanulate, five-toothed. Petals or scales erescentésha p- 
ed. . Germ ovate, Style scarcely any. Stigma somewhat 
two-lobed. Berry a little depressed and umbilicate, smooth, 
the size of a marrowfat pea, having the base covered by the 
remaining calyx. Séeds five when all come to maturity. 
3. R. virgatus. R. 
~ Shrubby, erect, spines terminal. Leaves oblong-ventri- 
pes ‘portate; Flowers round the base of the young shoots 
, tern; heey gatiacites frame, two or three- 
A mative or f Nepal from. hase Dr. Sackiucn, sent ¢ suet 
to the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1802, where the plants 
grow freely to the size of a very large shrub; they bicends 
in March, and ripen their seed in Setnier ind November: 
| Trunk not very short, distinet from the — all are 
6 62% = 
unarmed twigs, and. short; rigid, saa ieieaen pointed 
branchlets, bark of the old woody patirticinsialtyetnge 2 
