608 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA, Ziziphus, 
forming a large oblong panicle. Corol none. Nectary as 
in the other species. Anthers three-lobed. Germ two-cell- 
ed, one ovulum in each, attached to the bottom of the cell. 
Drupe turbinate, size ofa cherry, yellow. Nut generally one- 
celled. 
4. Z. Jnjuba, Wilid. sp. i. 1104. 
Arboreous. Leaves obliquely-ovate, serrate. Peduncles 
axillary, many-flowered. Thorns stipulary, one recurved, 
the other straight, Muts two-celled. 
-Perim Toddali. Rheed. Mal. iv. 85. t. 41. 
- Malum mdicum. Rumph. Amb, ii. 117. t. 36. 
Beng. Kool. : 
Hind, Bier. 
Teling. Rengha. 
Ona the coast of Coromandel this grows to be a small tree. 
Flowering time the rainy season; the finit npeer nine is 
rains, : 
Trunk seldom straight, yet not much bent. Bark E sisabe 
rous, much and deeply cracked. Branches spreading in 
every direction ; branchlets bifarious, flexuose; young parts. 
a little downy. Thorns stipulary, very sharp; the under 
one recurved, the upper one straight. —Leayes short-petiol- 
ed, alternate, bifarious, obliquely-oval, serrate, with the apex 
often three-toothed, _above smooth, below downy ; from one 
to two aon sets . Flowers axillary, crowded on sub-ses- 
: > Calya ‘one-leaved, spreading, tive-parted, 
aaniar Saal ‘Petals (scales of Linn.) five, wedge*shap- 
ed, apex large, concave, spoon-like, with its margin slightly 
crenulate ; they are inserted on the inside of the divisions of 
the calyx. Nectary saucer-shaped, perforated for the pistil- 
Tum, ‘margin ten-notched. Filaments five, rather shorter 
than the petals, and inserted immediately over them, so that 
‘staal oval anthers rest in their concave apices. “Germ 
fHarrot ety eng? aa be sero l eat i 
s ie ee < Sea sil hee. =} 
3 divisions recurved, Seine” 4 
