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Zizyphus—continued. 
leaves, August. Jr. red or black, succulent, jin. in diameter. 
l. in, to 24in. long, sub-obliquely ovate, obtuse or sub-acute, - 
crenate-serrated, glabrous. Prickles usually twin. A. 6ft. and 
upwards. South Europe, &c., 1640. Hardy shrub or small 
tree. (S. F. G. 241.) 
ZOMICARPA (from zoma, a kind of skirt, and 
karpos, a fruit; the pericarp of the fruit, when ripe, 
Zomicarpa—continued. 
few-flowered ; peduncle slender, equalling the leaves. 
Leaves appearing before the flowers, long-petiolate, 
reniform, tripedatisect; segments elliptic-oblong, the 
lateral ones smaller; petioles sheathing towards the 
base. The species require similar culture to that recom- 
mended for Staurostigma. 
bursts at the bottom and remains, covering the seeds 
like a skirt. ORD. Aroidee (Aracee). A small genus 
(three species) of stove, tuberous, perennial herbs, natives 
of Brazil. Flowers monccious; perianth none; spathe 
rather fleshy, persistent, the tube convolute, hooded at 
base, with connate margins, the throat constricted, the 
lamina lanceolate, acuminate, reticulate-veined; spadix 
shorter than, and adnate at base with, the spathe, with 
2 slender appendage; male inflorescence dense, female 
iedel's). ; the green; spadix much 
E de the weg part club-shaped, longer 
than the inflorescence. J. reniform; segments mucronate-cuspi- 
