606 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ZlzipllUS. 



ZIZIPHUS, Lamarck. 

 Calyx five-parted. Corol five-petalled. Germ hid in a 

 crenulate, flat nectary, from two to three-celled; cells one- 

 seeded ; attachment inferior. Drupe superior, nut from one 

 to three, or more, one-seeded. Embryo erect, with scanty 

 perisperm, or none. 



1. Z. trinervia. R. 



Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves ovate-oblong, three-nerved, 

 obtusely serrate, glossy, flowers in axillary fascicles. Stig- 

 ma two-cleft. Drupes spherical. 



A native of Mysore ; from whence Dr. Buchanan sent seed, 

 to the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1800, and in eight years 

 the plants therefrom have grown to be beautiful small trees, 

 of about twenty feet in height, with innumerable branches 

 and branchlets spreading in every directions, with extremities 

 often pendulous, and crowded with beautiful, dark «reen, 

 glossy foliage. Flowering time in the Botanic garden March 

 and April, the fruit ripens in September, October, and No- 

 vember. 



Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, broad-lanceo- 

 late, or ovate-oblong, obtuse, slrongly marked with three 

 nerves, smooth, firm and glossy, obtusely serrulate, from one 

 to five inches long, and from one to two and a half broad. 

 Stipules filiform, caducous. Flowers numerous, small, green- 

 ish yellow, collected in little axillary fascicles. Scales of 

 the corol small, and shorter than the recurved stamens. Germ 

 ovate, immersed in the large, convex, fleshy receptacle, two- 

 celled, with one ovulum in each, attached from the base to 

 the bottom of the partition. Style scarcely any. Stigma 

 two-cleft, divisions short and recurved. Drupes spherical, 

 the size of a cherry, polished, of a lively yellow, one-celled. 

 Pulp soft, gelatinous and sweet. Nut obovate, consider- 

 ably flattened, a little rugose, one or two-celled. Seed con- 

 form to the cell, of a brownish colour, and rather soft. Em- 



