Zizijj/lllS. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 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 ;• \\ bite, fleshy lamina ; but at this period not connect- 

 ed round its margins, as before maturity. Embryo erect ; 

 cotyledons two, nearly five-nerved. Radicle inferior, oval, 

 just within the umbilicus. 



13. /. microphylla. R. 



Shrubby; brcmchlels hilarious, flexuose. Thorns stipula- 

 ry, one straight, the other recurved. Leaves ovate, three- 

 nerved, serrulate, woolly underneath. Flowers fascicled. 

 S/ it/ iiki two- (left. 



Jujubas zizyphvs zeylanica. Pluck. Aim. 199. t. 197. 



Rhamnus numnmlaria. Burnt. Ind. G], 



Common on barren uncultivated lands on the Coroman- 

 del 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. Bar/c covered with a light coloured, almost 

 white pellicle. Thorns stipulary, the upper one straight, 

 Blender, 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. Flowers collected in the axills of the leaves, short- 

 pedoncled. Calyx tomentose on the outside. Petals short- 

 clawed, oval. Stiyma two-cleft. 



14. Z. Napeca. Willd. spec. i. 1104. 



Shrubby, climbing. Leaves obliquely cordate, serrate, 

 three-nerved, downy underneath. Thorns stipulary. Nuts 



two-celled. 



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