612 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Zizip/lUS. 



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 

 durable, and at the same time not very heavy. 



12. Z. Caracutta. Buck. 



Arboreous. Thorns in pairs ; the under one recurved, the 

 upper one straight. Leaves round, serrulate, three-nerved. 

 Peduncles axillary, very short, many-flowered. Style three- 

 cleft. Diitpe oval, with a three-celled nut. 



A native of the southern parts of Mysore, and there known 

 to the natives by the name Karaktitta. 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. Peduncles 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. Nut roundish, a little uneven on the outside, 

 very hard and thick, three-celled. Seeds solitary, attached 



