610 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA,. Ziziphus: 
it a troublesome plant in a garden, but at the same time they 
render it easily yeeros if necessary. 
7. Z. Lotus. ieakied Encyclop. iii. 304. [Mlustr. 1. 18h. 
SFu®e 
- Arboreous; spines stipulary, one long alates and ee 
the other recurved. Leaves oval, three-nerved, most. slightly 
crenulate serrate, smooth on both sides, Flowers axillary ; 
style two-cleft. 
Z. Lotus, Willd, i. 1103. 
A native of Persia, &c. ; blossoms in the hot season in the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta. It is readily known from its 
Indian congeners by the whiteness of its bark, and the pale. 
yellow tinge of its long and very slender prickles. 
8. Z. elliptica. R. 
Arboreous. . Thorns paired, the upper one rather incurv- 
ed, the under one recurved. Leaves elliptically oval, serru-. 
late, three-nerved, pale underneath. Corymbs axillary, di- 
chotomous, lowers semi-trigynous, 
A stout straight tree, a native of Travancore, from thence 
introduced by Dr. A. Berry, into the Botanic garden at Cal- 
cutta, where it blossoms,in May and June. 
. Trunk straight, but slightly bent to one side, covered with 
pretty smooth, brown bark. Branches and branchlets nu- 
merous, spreading much while young, and divaricated when 
old. Young shoots slightly villous, and flexuose, Prickles, 
paired and stipulary ; the upper one straighter and pointed. 
forward ; the under one much recurved. Leaves alternate, 
bifarious, short-petioled, elliptically oval with the base ob- 
liquely cordate, finely serrulate, three-nerved, smooth above, 
pale and soft underneath, from one to two inches long. Sti- 
pules subulate, soon becoming the sharp thorns above de- 
scribed. : femme axillary, much shorter than the leaves, 
hotomous, villous, many-flowered. Palate ; 
3 a, as in the genus, _ Paepornies immers- 
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