2'^ RHAMNACE/C 



ZIZYPHUS. F.B.I. 42 III. 



Trees and shrubs, with alternate leaves and often the 

 stipules modified as curved or straight prickles. Flowers 

 fascicled in the axils, or in sessile or peduncled cymes. 

 Disc completely filling the calyx so that the receptacle 

 is flat. Fruit fleshy with hard stone. 



In most (all ?) species the leaf has three main veins starting 

 from the base. The mid-rib gives off short lateral nerves p"n- 

 nately ; the other two main veins curve outwards and then inwards 

 to meet at the tip and give off conspicuous nerves on the outer- 

 side, but hardly any inwards. The whole venation is so peculiar 

 as almost to suffice to identify the genus, but some species of 

 Rhamnus are very similar. 



Species about 50, in tropical Asia and America, and in 

 temperate regions. 



On the plains theKJ are several species, quite common. 



Zizyphus rugosa Laml^, ; F.BJ. i 36, III 147. A large 

 straggling shrub, armed with solitary curved prickles. 

 Leaves 2 to 4 inches elliptic, glabrous on the upper, 

 densely tomentose on the lower side. Flowers in long 

 peduncled cymes on leafless branches, forming large 

 panicles. Fruit fleshy, small with one stone and one 



seed. 



Nilgiris : Ghat road just below Coonoor, etc. Pulneys, 

 Poombarai and on Ghats to 6,000 feet. Fpon 651, 1084, 6551. 



Genl. Dist. Common in dry deciduous forests on the Western Ghats, 

 6,000 feet 



SCUTIA. F.B.I. 42 VII. 



Shrubs with opposite or sub-opposite leaves and axil- 

 lary fascicles of small flowers, in which the disc fills the 

 calyx tube. Fruit half superior, surrounded at the base 

 by the calyx tube. 



Species about 10, ia Asia, Africa and tropical America. 



Scutia myrtina Kurz ; F.BA. i 842, VII. A straggling 

 shrub. Leaves opposite, or sub-opposite, about I inch 

 round obovate coriaceous, shining. Flowers yellowish. 



