hooked. L. sul>bi$arious entire or toothed, basul-nerved. 

 Fls. in axillary fascicles or cymes v or cymes forming terming 

 panicles. Calyx 5- rarely 4-6-fid , lobes spreading triangu- 

 lar keeled within. Pet. very small hooded over the stamens 

 nltimately deflexed, sometimes (Z. ragosa). Disc more 

 or less filling the calyx tube and often raised as a cushion 

 above it or with a thin free margin under which the stamens 

 are inserted. Ovary immersed in the disc 2-4-celled. Styles 

 2-4/ free or partially united. Fruit- drupaceous rarely dry 

 when mature, with a 2-3- rarely 1-or 4-celled stone. Albumen 

 very little or 0. 



A. Cymes or fascicles axillary. Petals present. 



1. Peduncles of cymes or shorter than tue 

 pedicels. Fruit fleshy. 



L. densely tomentose beneath. Drupe yellow 



or red. Tree 1. Jujuba. 



L. densely tomentose beneath. Drupe yellow 



or red. £hrub la. V,ar. fruticosa. 



I. densely silky beneath. Drupe black . 2. (Encplia. 



L. glabrous on both sides 3. vulgarit. 



2. Peduncles of cymes stout, mostly longer than 



the pedicels. Fruit dry when ripe or flesh mealy 4. xylopyra. 



B. Cymes in terminal panicles. Petals 0. Drupe 



white 5. rugosa. 



1. Z. Jnjuba, Lamk. tfcanumjan, Ho. ; Dodari, M. 

 Dedaori-janum, Jom-janum, 8. ; Dhani, Kharw. ; Bair, IT V ; 

 Ber, Bor, Beng. 



A small tree with pendulous branches and oblong or ovate 

 dark green leaves If -3" long densely tomentose s beneath, 

 small green flowers in dense axillary tomentose cymes or 

 fascicles, and yellowish fleshy drupes £-f" diam. 



Not indigenous, 1 rgely cultivated and self-sown near villages. Fl. 

 March-June. Ft. Jany. -March Eenews leaves March- April. 



Branchl"U tomentose, with geminate thorns or often unarmed. L. 

 w^th a white or red tOmentum beneath, glabrous above, usually minutely 

 serrulate, or apex distinctly toothed, obtuse, rarely acute, with an 

 oblique 3»nerved base. Cymes \-\" long, sometimes with a short peduncle 



