614 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA, Ziziphus, 
Sans, Sookshmuphula, Diiokainliik, Sookshmuputruka, 
Doospursha, Mudhoora, Shuvurahara, Shikhipriya, Kur- 
kundhoo, Shrigalukoli, 
Beng. Shea-kool. 
Telinga. Paramie. 
This is the most common species of the genus; it is to be 
found in every hedge throughout India, and always with 
scarcely any thing that can be called a trank, but many 
large, straggling, climbing branches, which are too weak 
to support themselves. Bark dark, rust-coloured, pretty 
smooth; young shoots downy. Prickles always present, 
stipulary, large, and exceedingly sharp; the lower one is 
_ much recurved, the upper one straight. Leaves alternate, 
short-petioled, bifarious, very obliquely ‘ovate, serrate, three- 
nerved ; downy underneath, from one to two inches long. 
- Corymbs axillary, many-flowered. Style two-cleft. Drupe 
the size of a pea, smooth, shining black, marked round the 
base with a circular scar. Nut rugose, obcordate, two-cell- 
ed ; generally one of the cells is obliterated, or abortive. Seed 
solitary, affixed to the bottom of the cell. 
‘The fruit is eaten by the natives; the taste a very pleasant 
acid.. A decoction of the bark of the fresh root is said to — 
promote the —— of fresh wounds, 
16, Z. glabra, R 
_ Shrubby, ansiindenty smooth. Thorns slides recurved, 
eave. ovate-cordate, long, obtuse, pointed, serrulate. agi 
strongly marked with three nerves, Drupes oval. 
A native of Chittagong, where it flowers in the Sook season, | 
and the fruit, which is about the size of a — 
in May. 
16. Z. incurva. R. 
7  Arboreous, Thorns eles one straight and patent, the 
