60 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



flowers sessile, manj together, quite flat greenish-white, berry 

 like the last. Gangar, jangra. 



Common in Gnzerat, Sind, and other parts. 



3. Z. cenoplia. Slightly climbing, all covered with hairs, 

 leaves oval lanceolate acute, very unequal-sided, flowers short- 

 stalked axillary, petals very small, soon falling off; fruit round, 

 size of a currant, turning from yellow to black. Chunibher, 

 kdnare. 



Common in the Konkan, also in the Deccan. When out of flower 

 this is very like Briedelia scandens, but the thorns and unequal- 

 sided leaves distinguish it. 



4. Z. xylopyrus. A 'shrub or small tree with or without 

 thorns, leaves broad oval or round, downy beneath, finely 

 serrated, flowers in a close cyme, fruit size of a cherry, round, 

 hard, 3-celled. Guti, bhurguti. 



Konkan, common in the Ghauts (D.), and all over S. India. 

 Srandis. 



5. Z. rugosa. A. straggling shrub with large panicles of 

 small white flowers without corolla, leaves broad oval, serrate, 

 shining ; fruit small, white round or obovate, eatable. Turan. 



Konkan, common on the Ghauts. 



Z. lotos, common in N. Africa, is the tree from which the Lotophagi 

 of the Odyssey took their name, the fruit of which is the 

 lotos : 



" Which whoso tastes 

 Insatiate riots in the sweet repasts, 

 Nor other home nor other care intends, 

 But quits his house, his country and his friends." 



Dry den. 



" The Lotos blooms below the barren peak ; 

 The Lotos blows by every winding creek." 



Tennyson. 

 3. SCUTIA. 



S. Indica. A straggling thorny shrub with small smooth 

 obovate leaves and very small flowers in umbels, which are 

 axillary or arranged round the stem, fruit obovate or roundish, 

 2 to 4-celled and seeded. Chimdt. 



The Ghauts, common. 



4. COLUBRINA. 



C. Asiatica. An unarmed smooth shrub with shining 

 ovate crenate leaves unequal at the base ; flowers in short 

 cymes, fruit size of a pea, very smooth. Guti. 



Konkan and the Ghauts. 



