Order 36. Rhamnea. 59 



1 . VENTILAGO. Climbing shrubs, disk 5-lobed, ovary sunk 

 in it, style very short, fruit winged, with persistent calyx. 



2. ZIZYPHUS. Thorny shrubs or trees, leaves generally 

 bifarious, petals sometimes wanting, disklobed filling the calyx 

 tube,, ovary sunk in it, styles 2 to 4, fruit a drupe with hard 

 stone. 



3. SCUTIA. Smooth shrubs with opposite leaves or nearly 

 so, disk fleshy rilling the calyx tube, ovary sunk in it narrow- 

 ing into a short 2 or 3-cleft style, drupe with adherent 

 calyx. 



4. COLUBRINA. Like the last, but leaves alternate and the 

 calyx surrounds the fruit below the middle instead of at the 

 base. 



1. VENTILAGO. 



V, madraspatana. A large climber with grooved branches, 

 leaves smooth ovate or roundish, unequal at the base, bifarious, 

 flowers in slender panicles at the end of the branches ; fruit 

 size of a pea, light green with a flat wing about 2 inches long. 

 JBika, lolcandi, Kdnvel. 



The Ghauts aud N. Konkan. The junction of the wing with the 

 fruit is like the closing of a lid. 



7. Bombaiensis differs in the young parts being tawny with hairs, 

 and the flowers fascicled in the axils. Chorla Ghaut (->.) I believed 

 that I had it at Mahableshwar ; but it seems more likely that that 

 was 7. Calyculata, which Mr. Birdwood has in his list under the 

 name of Karkandi did yel, Kdnyel, and which H. attributes to all the 

 hotter parts of India. 



2. ZIZYPHUS. 



1. Z. jujuba. A thorny tree with small leaves ovate or 

 roundish, dark and shining above, woolly below, flowers in 

 short cymes, strong smelling, fruit round, size of a cherry, 

 smooth yellow. Bher, bhor. 



Varies greatly in shape and size of fruit, shape and downiness of 

 leaves and general habit. Brandis. 



Throughout India wild and extensively cultivated ; but Z. vulgaris, 

 not known in W. India, is also called the cultivated bher. 



This is thought by some to be the Sidra of the Koran, the tree 

 which Mohammed in his miraculous night journey found growing at 

 the further limit of the seventh heaven, but others think that to be 

 Z. lotus. (Sprenger). 



2. Z. munmularia. A small low shrub, leaves small 

 roundish finely serrated, underside and branches woolly, thorns 

 in pairs, one long and straight, the other short and curved, 



