608 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ZizipflUS. 



forming a large oblong panicle. Corol none. Nectary as 

 in the other species. Anthers three-lobed. Germ two-cell- 

 ed, one ovulum in each, attached to the bottom of the cell. 

 Drupe turbinate, size of a cherry, yellow. Nut generally one- 

 celled. 



4. Z. Jujuba. Willd. sp. i. 1104. 



Arboreous. Leaves obliquely-ovate, serrate. Peduncles 

 axillary, many-flowered. Thorns stipulary, one recurved, 

 the other straight. Nuts two-celled. 



Perim Toddali. Rheed. Mai. iv. 85. t. 41. 



Malum mdicum. Rumph. Amb. ii. 117. t. 36. 



Ben (j. Kool. 



Hind. Bier. 



Teling. Rengha. 



On the coast of Coromandel this grows to be a small tree. 

 Flowering time the rainy season ; the fruit ripens after the 

 rains. 



Trunk seldom straight, yet not much bent. Bark scab- 

 rous, much and deeply cracked. Branches spreading in 

 every direction; branchlets bifarious, flexuose; young parts 

 a little downy. Thorns stipulary, very sharp ; ike under 

 one recurved, tke upper one straight. Leaves skort-petiol- 

 ed, alternate, bifarious, obliquely-oval, serrate, with the apex 

 often three- toothed, above smooth, below downy; from one 

 to two inches long. Flowers axillary, crowded on sub-ses- 

 sile umbellets. Calyx one-leaved, spreading, five-parted, 

 divisions acute. Petals (scales of Linn.) five, wedge-shap- 

 ed, apex large, concave, spoon-like, with its margin slightly 

 crenulate ; they are inserted on the inside of the divisions of 

 the calyx. Nectary saucer-shaped, perforated for the pistil- 

 luro, mareiu ten-notched. Filaments five, rather shorter 

 than the petals, and inserted immediately over them, so that 

 the small oval anthers rest in their concave apices. Germ 

 above. Style two-cleft ; divisions recurved. Drupe globu- 



