(514 PENTANDRTA MONOGYNIA. ZizipllUS. 



Sans. Sookshmwphwltf, B«hookirat«ka, Sookshmwpwtnfka, 

 Doospursha, Mwdhoora, Shavwraliara, Shikh?'pnya, K?/r- 

 kwndhoo, Shrigalwkoli. 



JSeng. 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 trunk, but many 

 laro-e, 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 • o-enerally 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 healing of fresh wounds. 



15. Z. glabra. R. 



Shrubby, scandent, smooth. Thorns solitary, recurved. 

 Leaves ovate-cordate, long, obtuse, pointed, serrulate, smooth, 

 strono-ly marked with three nerves. Drupes oval. 



A native of Chittagong, where it flowers in the cool season, 

 and the fruit, which is about the size of a gooseberry, ripens 

 in May. 



16. Z. incurva. R. 



Arboreous. Thorns paired, one straight and patent, the 

 other incurved. Leaves ovate-obloiig, polished, three-nerv- 



