Ziziphus, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 609° 
lar, size of a large cherry, smooth, yellow when ripe, ut 
rough, two-celled. Seed solitary, affixed at the base, 
The fruit is eaten by all classes of persons, 
5. Z. vulgaris, Willd. sp. i. 1105. 
Leaves obliquely oval, serrulate, three-nerved, hoary un- 
derneath. Thorns stipulary, one straight, the other recurv- 
ed. Drupe oblong. Nut sharp-pointed, two-celled. 
Z. sativa, Gert. i. p, 202. t. 43. f. 4. 
A pretty large tree, often as large asa full-grown apple tree 
in England, a native of Persia and Hindoost’han ; only found 
in gardens in Bengal, where it blossoms in August, and the 
fruit ripens in January. 
6. Z. nitida, R. 
Arboreous. Thorns stipulary, one projecting, one recurv- 
ed. Leaves obliquely ovate-oblong, three-nerved, obtusely 
serrate, smooth, Fruits sub-cylindric; nuts two-celled, 
Introduced from China inte the Botanic garden at Calcut- 
ta, where it grows to be a small tree, Flowering time the hot 
season. 
Root superficial, sending up many suckers for some yards 
round the tree. Trunk generally crooked. Bark brown, 
pretty smooth; branches few, flexuose, and thin of leaves, 
Spines stipulary, the upper one straight, long, and pointing 
much forward, the other shorter and recurved, Leaves al- 
ternate, short-petioled, obliquely oblong, emarginate, three- 
nerved, serrate, smooth, of a shining green on both sides, 
from one to two inches long. Flowers axillary, few, sallest- 
ed on short common peduncles ; they are small, yellow, semi- 
digynous. Drupe oblong, pendulous and smooth, about a an 
~ inch long, when ripe pale-yellow, Nut lanceolate, pointed 
at both ends, a little compressed, rugose, two-celled, 
The fruits are eaten, but to my taste they are rather insi- 
pid. Innumerable suckers constantly rise from the root 
which ran to a great distance from the parent tree, and make 
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