240 XLI. lUlAMXACK.^. 



In the absence of fruit it is impossible to deterinine this plant witli oertninty. 

 Bentliain (Joura. Linn. Soc. v. f) [18()1] p. 77) says tli.it he suspects Dalzell"s speeimous 

 to be sile-slioi)ts from I', calyculdta with the inflorescence abntn-mally axillary. The 

 shape and nervation of the leaves ai-e, however, opposed to this view. In addition to 

 the specimens obtained by Dalzell from Chorla Gliat, there is one other specimen in 

 Herb. Kew. marked " Konkan, Stocks," while I have in my own Herbarium 4 good 

 specimens, hi full (lower, collected from Devinir.na Ghat (N. Kanara) in the month of 

 February. Unfortunately none of these specimens are in fruit. Woodrow in his list 

 of Bombay plants (1. c.)' gives Tinai (N. Kanara) as a habitat of the plant, while 

 Mr. Talbot (Trees, Bomb. p. ol) says he has no knowledge whatever of it. Beddonie 

 (Icon. 1. 114) figures a plant which he has named Ziziifhm wynadcnds, but of which no 

 specimens exist either at Kew or in the British Museum. The figure exactly represents 

 this plant. In the Index to his Icon. (p. iii), Beddome withdraws the name Zhyphus 

 wtjnadensis in favor of Vcniilago homha lends, Dalz. U'he general appearance of the 

 plant is in favor of its being a VcntUaijo rather than a Zhyphus. Ko frnit has been 

 figured by Beddome, but he describes the plant as a lofti/ tree, while Dalzell allows it 

 to be inferred that it is (as are all the species of Ventihigo) a climber. Lawson in 

 Hook. f. Fl. B. I. V. 1. p. (iyi & p. (i33, retains both plants under the same citation 

 from Bedd. Icon. One of tliese must of cjurse disappear. — Local botanists would 

 render a service by obtaining the fruit and so clearing up the question.— Distrib. 

 Apparently endemic. 



2. ZIZYPHUS, Juss. 

 Trees or shrubs often decumbent or sarmeiitose, usually armed with 

 sharp straight or hooked thorns (transformed stipules). Leaves sub- 

 distichous, alternate, 3-5-nerved, usually coriaceous. P'iowers axillary, 

 fascicled or in sessile or peduncled cymes, small, greenish. Calyx 5-iid ; 

 tube broadly obconic ; lobes triangular-ovate, acute, spreading, keeled 

 within. Petals 5 (rarely 0), cucullate, deflexed. Disk 5-10-lobed, flat 

 or pitted, the margin free. S' aniens 5, enclosed by the petals and longer 

 than them. Ovary immersed in the disk and confluent with it at the 

 base, 2-4-celled ; stvles 2-3, conical, free or connate, divergent ; stigmas 

 small, papillose. Drupe globose or oblong, with a woody or bony J-4- 

 celled 1-4-seeded stone. Seed plano-convex ; albumen or scanty ; 

 cotyledons thick ; radicle short. — Distrib. Tropical Asia and America 

 and in temperate regions of both hemispheres ; species about 60. 



Petals h. 



Styles connate to the middle. 



Fruit e.\ceeding ^ in. in diam. ; leaves tomentose beneath... 1. Z. Jujuha. 

 Fruit under h in. in diam. 



Leaves glabrous 2. Z. trine)-via. 



Leaves tonicutose on both sides 3. Z. roiundifolia. 



Leaves clothed with silky hairs beneat h 4. Z. Ginoplia. 



Styles distinct or nearly so. 



Fruit %-\ in. in dinm 5. Z. .rj/lopj/ra. 



Fruit ^-^ in. in diam fi- Z.horrida. 



PetalsO ''■ -^•"^<'««- 



1. Zizyphus Jujuba, Lamh. Enci/c. v. 3 (1789) p. 318. A small 

 much-liranched tret; or large shrub ; young branches softly pubescent. 

 Leaves l-2rl by |-1.] in., bifarious, ovate-elliptic, rounded at both ends, 

 slightly inequilii<«i">-l at tlie tiase, faintly and irregularly denticulate, 

 phrbrous above, covered beneath with a dense whitisb or buff tomentum, 

 strongly 3-nerved from tbe base ; petioles .{-Lin. long; i)ric-kles solitary 

 or in "pairs, ^\hen twin 1 often straight, tbe olher bent. Flowers 

 greenish-yellow, in small axillary clusters or sliort-pcduncled axillary 

 cymes. Calyx pubescent or woolly outside, glabrous within, ch-ft about 

 half way down ; lobes triangular, prominently keeled on the inner face 



