Bercuemia. RHAMNEJE. 163 
We have preferred restoring the specific name given by Burman to that in 
Roxburgh, although the latter certainly be more expressive. * 
511. (6) Z. GZnoplia (Mill. :) shrubby, climbing, thorny: branches nearl 
glabrous ; young shoots pubescent: leaves very obliquely ovate, acuminated, 
acute or obtuse or retuse at the base, slightly serrulate or almost quite en- 
tire; under side shortly tomentose, of the young ones rusty-coloured villous 
and silky: eymes short: ovary 2-celled : styles combined to above the mid- 
dle: drupe globose: nut rugose, usually 1-celled, the other cell being abor- 
tive.—DC. prod. 2. p. 21 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 771; Roab.? fl. Ind. 1. p. 611 ; (ed. 
Wail.) 2. p. 360; Wall.! L. n. 4246 ; Wight ! cat. n. 499.—Z. scandens, Rowb. 
hort. Bengh. p. 17 ; Wall. L. n. 1269.—42. Napeca, Roth, nov. sp. p. 159 (not 
Willd.) ; Roab.? fl. Ind. 1. p. 618; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 363.—Rhamnus (Enoplia, 
Linn.?.—R. Napeca, Linn. ?—Burm. Zeyl. t. 61. 
This is certainly Z. Napeca of Roth, and we think also of Roxburgh, al- 
though he does not mention the acuminated leaves: but Dr Wallich has as- 
certained that the plant of that name in all the missionaries’ herbaria is re- 
Sa a present species, and the presumption is, from the continual 
mterchange of specimens and names between them, that Roxburgh had 
the same in view. As to Z. Napeca, Willd., it appears more allied to Z. 
glabrata ; but Rhamnus Napeca of Linnæus is very uncertain. The synonym 
of Plukenet quoted by him resembles Z. sinensis or even Z. vulgaris, and 
Rumph. Amb. 2. t. 37. (not 42, as in De Candolle) is considered by Dr Ha- 
milton to be a species of Eleagnus. 
t 512. (7) Z.? horrida (Roth :) leaves ovate or roundish, obtuse or slight- 
ly acuminated, crenulated ; under side pubescent on the nerves: stipulary 
prickles solitary or in pairs, stout, shining: cymes small, corymbose, dicho- 
à rend and lateral.— Roth, nov. sp. p. 159; DC. prod. 2. p. 20; Spr. 
Syst. 1. p. 770. 
This, if the description be correct, appears scarcely to differ from Z. Na- 
peca, Willd., but in Bones harbarium (from whom Roth received his spe- 
cimens) there is no species of Zizyphus corresponding to the characters of 
either: we may remark, that although Roth does so of all the other species 
he describes, he here takes no notice of the leaves being three-nerved. 
II. BERCHEMIA. Neck. ; DC. 
Calyx 5-cleft, with a hemispherical tube ; segments erect. Petals 5, con- 
Volute. Stamens inclosed within the petals. Anthers ovate, 2-celled. Disk 
fleshy. » annular, flattish. Ovary half immersed in the disk but free from it, 
2-celled. Style simple, short; 2-furrowed, bifid at the apex ; stigmas convex. 
Fruit drupaceous, with a bony 2-celled nut. Seed-coat fibrous, closely ad- 
hering above and on the side next the axis to the putamen, free below and 
on the outer side.—Erect or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, many-nerved > 
nerves oblique, almost simple, pretty close to each other, Flowers in short 
corymbs or umbels from the axils of the upper leaves, or nearly sessile and 
fascicled along slender leafless branches which form a terminal panicle. 
The fruit of two species only is known (B. volubilis and B. floribunda), so that the 
Pinnately nerved aper and ovary not A uten with the disk are the sce nio 
Tacters to distinguish this genus from Zizyphus. Somespecies have so coge im à k 
of Sageretia (the fruit of which is totally unknown), that, independent of the disk 
Which is cup-shaped with an elevated border in S. itifolia and ^ veg u 
mM differs in different species), the number of divisions of the style must be re- 
Sorted to to separate them. . 
513. (1) B. parviflora (Wall. 9 unarmed : leaves alternate and somewhat 
9Pposite, ovate-lanceolate, aeuminated, sharply serrulated, cong ef 
ceous ; upper side shining; nerves beneath and petioles pent : flowers 
Sessile, faseicled, on long filiform panicled branches.—Wa//.! L. n. 4258 ; 
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