28o RhamnacecB. [Zizypkus. 



Pet. 5. 

 Styles connate half-way up. 



L. rotundate, densely tomentose beneath . . i. Z. JujUBA. 

 L. lanceolate or oval. 



L. silky beneath 2. Z. OiNOPLIA. 



L. glabrous on both sides 3. Z. Napeca. 



Styles distinct, 3 4. Z. xylopyra. 



Pet. o 5. Z. rugosa. 



1. Z. Jujuba, Lam. Did. iii. 318 (1789). Ittaha-debara, i". 

 Ilantai, T. 



Herm. Mus. 12. Fl. Zeyl. n. 89. R/iai/mtis Jujuba, L. Sp. 194. 

 Moon Cat. 17. Thw. Enum. 74. C. P. 1242. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 632. Wight, Ic. t. 99. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 149. 



A small, much-branched tree or a large shrub, bark dark 

 grey, with deep, longitudinal fissures, branchlets elongated, 

 flexuose, woolly-pubescent; 1, i-i| in., broadly oblong-oval 

 or rotundate, rounded at both ends, faintly and irregularly 

 denticula e, glabrous above, densely covered beneath with 

 whitish or bufif- coloured tomentum, petiole short, woolly, 

 prickles short, very sharp, one usually curved, the other 

 straight, often absent ; fl. on hairy ped., in small axillary 

 clusters or very shortly pedunculate, paniculate cymes ; cal. 

 woolly outside, segm. very acute; pet. very small, spathulate, 

 recurved ; disk lo-lobed, lo-grooved ; styles connate, trifid ; 

 ■drupe about ^ in., globose, fleshy, smooth, yellow, stone 2-celled, 

 brown, excavated on surface. 



Dry region : rather common, e.g. Trincomalie and Anuradhapura. 

 Cultivated elsewhere. Fl. greenish-white. 



Also in India, and extending to Afghanistan, China, Trop. Africa, 

 Malaya, and Australia ; but much cultivated. 



The cultivated tree is the only sort in the moist districts, and is 

 usually known by its Portuguese name, ' Masan' (maga, an apple). The 

 fruit of this is usually larger and more elongated, and the stone gener- 

 ally one-celled. The pulp has a pleasant sweetish flavour when fully 

 ripe. 



Wood pale reddish-brown, rather heavy, hard. 



[Z. Ahiiiiiuularia, W. and A. is recorded by Vincent (Forest Report 

 par. 122) as a plant of our arid coast regions, but perhaps erroneously, 

 It should be looked for, however.] 



2. Z. CEnoplia,'^ Mi//. Card. Diet., ed. 8 (1768). Kin-eraxniniya. 

 S. Perilantai, Churai, T. 



Burm. Thes. 131. Fl. Zeyl. n. 88. Rhajimus CEnop/ia, L. Sp. 194 

 Moon Cat. 17. Thw. Enum. 74. C. P. 1240. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 634. Burm. Thes. t. 61 (good). 



* It is difficult to conceive what Linnaeus intended by applying this 

 term to the present species, which has nothing vinous about it in any 

 way. 



