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Diet. Ecoii. ProJ. v. 6, part 4, p. 374. — Flowers : May-July. Yfiay. 

 Guti. 



KoNKAN : Law !, Sfocks ! ; the Ghats pretty coiniaoii, Graham ; Mathorau near 

 Garbat Point, C. Macnaghten ! ; Hart Point, H. M. Birdwood. Deccan : Bovrdhan, 

 near Poona, Cookel, Woodruwl; Lanoli, Woodrowl S. M. Oountky : near Belgauin, 

 Bitchie ! Kanaka : in moist forests growing to a tree, a straggling shrub in drier parts 

 of the Presidency, Talbot; Kala naddi, Ritchie, 138! — Distrib. India (N.W. Prov., 

 Oude, Rajputana, W. Peninsula); Ceylon. 



6. Zizyphus horrida. Roth, Nov. PI. S_p. (1821) p. 159. A shrub 

 with slender divaricate branches. Leaves |-1^ by |-1 iu., broadly 

 elliptic or suborbicular, often mueronate, crenate, glabrous ; petioles 

 g-^ in. lonw ; stipular prickles from broad triangular bases, twin, one 

 straight and the other hooked, \-^ iu. long, glabrous, shining, hard aud 

 sharp. Flowers in dense niuch-brauched pubescent cymes ; peduncles 

 stout, \ in. long ; pedicels shorter than the peduncles. Calyx pubescent 

 outside ; lobes ovate, acuminate, keeled about half way down. Petals 

 broadly obovate with a very long claw. Disk 5-augled, not pitted. 

 Styles 3, distinct or nearly so. Fruit i-f in. in diam., globose, woody, 

 3-celled, 3-seeded. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 636 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 52. 



Konkan: Stocksl 



I have seen only one Bombay specimen which is in Horb. Kew. marked as abjve, 

 without more precise information as to locality. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



7. Zizyphus rugosa, Lamk. Eaci/c. v. 3 (1789) p. 319. A large 

 straggling armed shrub sometimes climbing ; young branches clothed 

 withfuhous tomentura. Leaves 2-5 in. long, brjadly elliptic, shortly 

 acuminate, denticulate, glabrous above, fulvous-tomentose beneath, base 

 oblique, often cordate; petioles |-i- iu. long, tomeutose ; prickles from 

 a broad base, solitary, short, recurved, tomentose except the tips. 

 Flowers in long-peduncled tomentose cymes arranged along usually 

 leafless spinous branches forming a panicle (the cymes sometimes turned 

 to one side) ; buds globose and as well as the peduncles aud pedicels 

 densely tomentose. Calyx pubescent outside ; lobes ovate acute, the 

 keel on the inner face reduced to a line. Petals 0. Disk 5-lobed. 

 Ovary 2-celled. Styles 2, connate below the middle. Drupe 5-3 in. iu 

 diam., globose or pyriform, white when ripe ; stone thin, 1-celled, 

 1-seeded. Fl. B. L v. 1, p. 636; Grab. Cat. p. 39; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 49; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 282; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 52; Woodr. 

 in .Tourn. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 271 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 6, part 4, p. 372. — Flowers : Dec.-Feb. Vern. Turan. 



Very common throughout the Ghats of the Presidency. Koxkan: Stoeks\ ; Konkan, 

 and Glials, /f^Yc'/u'e, 135!; Bumbay, Capt. Gchurne\ Deccan : Mahableshwar, (.'ooke.\\ 

 Khandala, JVoodrow I ; Ganesh Khind (Poona), Woodrow ! ; Igatpuri, Kanifkar\ Kanaka : 

 N. Kanara Ghats, Talbot. Sind: Hyderabad, Cooke'. The fruit is eaten largely by 

 the hill tribes in April and May. Dalzell & Gibson (/. c.) consider it palatable, but I 

 have always thouglit it mawkish. — Distrib. India generally ; Ceylon. 



3. RHAMNUS, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate (rarely subopposite), petioled, 

 penninerved ; stipules small, deciduous. Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous, axillary, racemose or cymose, the cymes fasciculate. Calyx 

 4-5-fid ; tube urceolate ; lobes keeled within. Petals 4-5 or 0, inserted 

 on the edge of the disk. Disk liuiug the calyx-tube, the margin thin. 



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