- 606 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Ziziphus, 
ZI ZI PHUS, Lamarck. 
Calyx five-parted. Corol five- petalled. Germ hid i ina 
crenulate, flat nectary, from two to three-celled ; cells one- 
seeded ; attachment inferior. Drupe superior, nut from one 
to three, or more, one-seeded. Embryo erect, with scanty 
perisperm, or none, 
1. Z. trinervia. R. 
Arboreous, unarmed, Leaves ovate-oblong, three-nerved, ~ 
obtiisaly serrate, glossy. Flowers in axillary fancies Stig- | 
ma two-cleft. Drupes spherical. ee 
A native of Mysore ; from whence Dr. Buchanan sent seed, — 
to the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1800, and in eight years 
the plants therefrom have grown to be beautiful small trees, _ 
of about twenty feet in height, with innumerable branches 
and branchlets spreading in every directions, with extremities 
often pendulous, and crowded with beautiful, dark green, 
glossy foliage. Flowering time in the Botanic garden March 
and April, the fruit ripens in September, October, and No- 
vember, 
- Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, broad-lanceo-— 
late, or ovate-oblong, obtuse, strongly marked with three 
nerves, smooth, firm and glossy, obtusely serrulate, from one 
to five inches long, and from one to two and a half broad. 
Stipules filiform, caducous. Flowers numerous, small, green- 
ish yellow, collected in little axillary fascicles, Seales of — 
the corol small, and shorter than the reeurved stamens: Gerin 
ovate, immersed in the large, convex, fleshy receptacle, two-- 
celled, with one ovulum in each, attached from the base to 
the bottom of the partition. Style scarcely any. Stigma 
two-cleft, divisions short and recurved. | Drupes spherical, 
the size of a cherry, polished, of a lively yellow, one-celled. 
ilp ‘soft, gelatinous and sweet, Nut obovate, -consider-— 
bly flattened, a little rugose, one or two-celled. Seed con- 
form to the cell, of a rownish colour, and rather soft, Em- 
