612 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNDIA. Ziziphus, 
round the base with the remains of the nectary. Nut three- 
celled, three-valved, the valves separating when the nut has 
been sometime exposed to the weather, leaving a centrical 
three-sided receptacle, Seeds one in each cell, orbicular, 
compressed, affixed at the base to the receptacle, 
Cattle eat the leaves, young shoots, and fruit. The kernels 
taste like filberts, and are eaten by the natives, 
The wood of the largest trees is much esteemed by the na- 
tives; being yellowish or orange-coloured, very hard and 
deisbls; and at the same time not very heavy. 
12. Z. Caracutta, Buch. 
Arboreous, Thorns in pairs ; the under one recurved, the. 
upper one straight, Leaves round, serrulate, three-nerved. 
Peduncles axillary, very short, many-flowered, sabi three- 
left. Drupe oval, with a three-celled nut. 
A native of the southern parts of Mysore, and there known 
to the natives by the name Xarakutta, Seeds sent from 
thence by Dr. Buchanan to the Botanic garden at Calcutta 
produced plants, which in four years were about ten feet 
high, with a tolerably erect, stout trunk, and many spread- 
ing crooked branches; covered with smooth, dark ash-co- 
loured bark. The young shoots are round, and villous. 
They blossom in April, and the fruit ripens in December, 
Thorns in stipulary pairs, the lower one recurved, the up- 
_ per one straight, both are hard, smooth, and acute; where 
the flowers are, the thorns are generally deficient. Leaves 
short-petioled, obliquely round-cordate, or nearly round, 
obtuse, or retuse, serrulate, three-nerved ; while young some- 
what villous; from one to two inches long, and nearly as 
broad. Satapaies axillary, very short, bearing many small, 
short-pedicelled, greenish-yellow flowers. Style three-cleft, 
Drupe the size of a large cherry, oval, depressed a little at 
both ends, smooth, dark-brown ; fleshy part tough, firm, 
and yellowish, Mud roundish, a little uneven on the outside, | 
very y hard fed thick, hreeceled, foot, malisers, aici 
