Materials for a Flota of the Malayan Peninsula. 875 



ovoid or ovoid-globose, the pulp scanty and tlie endocarp leathery, 

 seed solitary. Wall. Cat. 4230 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. T, 636. Z. ornata, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat., Vol. I, pt. I, 642. Berchemia caloplujlla, G. Don. 

 Gen. Syst. II, 28. 



Penaiig ; WuUich. Malacca ; Griffith, No. 2046. Maingay ( Kew 

 .Distrib.), No. 411. Perak, common. Singapore; Ridley, Nos. 1915, 

 4939. Pahang, Ridley, No. 5021. Selangor, Ridley's Collector. 



A handsome and very distinct species. Ridley's Singapore No. 3646, 

 seems to be a form of this with smaller leaves and more globular smaller 

 fruit than usual . Z. ornata, Miq., of which there is a type specimen 

 in Herb. Calcutta, differs in no respect from this. 



6. ZiZYPHUS APFiNis, Hemsley in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1544. Scan- 

 dent ; young branches dark-coloured, glabrous, the older often with 

 many prominent lenticels, prickles and leaves as in Z. calopliyJla. 

 Cymes solitary, axillary, on pedicels longer than the petioles, spreadino-, 

 many-flowered, puberulous. Floioers sub-globular, opening only sh'ghtly; 

 the calyx coriaceous, rugulose and sub-glabrous externally ; its lobes 

 broadly ovate, very concave, erect, with incurved apices, lined internally 

 with a pale glabi'ous membrane. Disc minutely 10-crenate, pitted, glab- 

 rous. Styles united to the apex. Fruit ovoid, glabrous, "75 in. long and 

 •6 in. in diam., the pulp scanty and the endocarp bony. 



Perak: Wray Nos. 1885, 18S6 and 1995. King's Collector Nos. 

 3568, 3747, 5238, 5528, 6720. Scortechini No. 192. 



The leaves of this species so much resemble those of Z. calophylla 

 Wall., that its authoi*, who had very scanty material to work with, 

 expressed some doubt whether it should not be considered as a variety 

 of that species, rather than as a distinct one. An examination of 

 numerous specimens with good flowers and ripe fruit, shows however 

 that it is perfectly distinct from Z cnlophylla. Its calyx differs in 

 fact very much from that of any other Asiatic species of this genus 

 known to me, inasmuch as the lobes are coriaceous, cucullate, conni- 

 vent and lined by a pale membrane. 



7. ZiZYPHUS GLABRA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I, 614. A scandent shrub ; 

 young branches pubernlous; spines short, curved, solitary. Leaves ovate- 

 oblong, rarely ovate-lanceolate, shortly and obtusely caudate-acuminate, 

 the edges serrulate or sub-entire, the base slightly narrowed, oblique, and 

 sometimes emarginate on one side, boldly 3-nerved, nerves unbranched 

 both surfaces shining, glabrous except the midrib on the upper which 

 is pubescent ; length 25 to 3"5 in., breadth 1"25 to 10 in., petiole "2 to 

 •4 in. Cymes slightly longer than the petioles, on short stalks, axillary, 

 spreading, 10- to 20-flowered, pubescent like the outer-surface of the 

 calyx. Disc with a circular hairy centre and glabrous edge with 10 



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