Ziziphus. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA, 613 
to the bottom of the cell, nearly round, compressed, convex 
on the inside, Integuments two; the exterior firm, light, 
brown, and polished ; the inner thin and softer. Perisperm; 
when the seed is ripe, there is only on each side of the em- 
_bryo a white, fleshy lamina; but at this period not connect- 
ed round its margins, as before maturity. Embryo erect ; 
cotyledons two, nearly five-nerved. Radicle inferior, esses 
just within the ambilicus. 
13. Z. microphylla, R. 
Shrubby ; branchlets bifarious, flexuose. Thorns stipula-_ 
ry, one straight, the other recurved. Leaves ovate, three- 
nerved, serrulate, woolly underneath. Flowers fascicled. 
Stigma two-cleft, 
-Jujubas zizyphus zeylanica. Pluck, me 199, t. 197. 
SE 
Rhamnus nummularia. Burm. Ind. 61.- ~ | 
Common on barren uncultivated lands on the Coroman- 
deb coast. - Flowering time the beginning of the rainy sea- 
‘son. | 
Stem scarcely any, but many slender, rigid, bifarious, 
flexuose branches spreading in all directions, and forming a 
small bush. Bark covered with a light-coloured, almost 
white pellicle. Thorns stipulary, the upper one straight, 
slender, but very sharp, and as long as the leaves. The 
under one shorter, and much recurved. Leaves alternate, 
bifarious, very short-petioled, ovate and oval, serrulate, 
above pretty smooth, woolly underneath ; about half an inch 
long, ¥ lowers collected in the axills of the leaves, short~ 
peduneled. Calyx tomentose on the outside. _ meguann 
clawed, oval. — two-cleft, te 
14. Z. apes Willd. spee.i. 1104. | 
-“Shrubby, climbing. Leaves obliquely dordate; serrate, 
ree-nerved, downy underneath,” Thorns eer: Nuts 
two-celled. 
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