636 XLII. RHAMNEJE. (M. A. Lawson.) [Zizyphus. 



Cymes 14 in. Calyx hairy inside. Difik 5-lobed, corrugated, hairy. Ovary 2 -celled ; 

 styles 2, united to a little above the middle. 



14. Z. horrida, Roth Nov. Sp. 159; profusely armed, leaves 



by |-1 in. suborbicular glabrous, petals 5, ovary 3-celled, styles 3 minute, 

 fruit | in. diam. DC. Prodr. ii. 20 ; W. & A. Prodr. 163 1 



WESTERN PENINSULA, Wight; the Concan, Stocks. 



A shrub with slender divaricating branches. Leaves coarsely sen-ate, especially at 

 the apex. Priclics geminate, very short, straight and recurved, the straight one 4 in. 

 long or more. Flowers in dense cymes 1 in. long. OcHyx hairy outside, glabrous in- 

 side. Petals spathulate, concave. Dink 5-angled, not pitted. Stylet divided to nearly 

 the base, fruit globose, woody, 3-celled, 3-seeded. Although this description does 

 not entirely agree with that of Roth, I do not know to what oilier species his descrip- 

 tion can apply. Z. Bh under, Itoyle 111. i. 168 (name only), is scarcely determinable, 

 but is apparently closely allied to tbis species. 



*** Flowers in pedunculated cymes, which are disposed in leafless (rarely 

 leafly) simple or compound ,sy<//-tv5. 



15. Z. calophylla, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 366 ; armed, 

 leaves 4-5 by 2-2^ in. elliptic-oblong shortly and obtusely acuminate entire 

 with 3 very prominent unbranehea nerves glabrous, petals 5, fruit 

 diam. W<ill. Cut. 42:;n. Berchemia calophylla, G. Don Gen. tiyst. ii. 



PENANO, Wallich; MALACCA, Griffith, Mcringav. DIBTRIB. Borneo. 



A shrub, with climbing brandies and black bark; wholly glabrous with the exception 

 of the flowers and fruit. Leaves coriaceous. <!itarv, recurved, short, stout, 



base broad. Cyine.x usually dispose, 1 in terminal tbyrsoid panicles. Cufi/.r. hairy >nt- 

 side, glabrous within. Petals ovate, coni-ave. J> ', not pitted, glabrous. 



Ovary 2-celled. pnberulous ; styles 2. Fruit glob red \\ith a light- 



brown pubescence, at length glabrous. - Kur/ (in ./ -^uc. Bcng. 1870, ii. 73) 



identifies with this species Z. ornata, Mi^. FL Ind. It at. \. 042. 



16. Z. iuniculosa, limn, in Wall. Ct. 4234; armed, leaves 2.1-5 

 by f-2 in. ovatt- or ovate-oblong obtusely acuminate with 3 very prominent 

 unbranched nerves, petals 5, fruit obovoid jj in. long. 1 Z. venulosa, Wall. 

 Cat. 4235. 



EASTERN BENGAL, the KHASIA Mrs., and SILHET, Wallich, &c. ? BIRMA, Griffith ; 

 TK.V\SSI-:I;IM, llcl/<r; ."\l.\i..\ii.\, Mirini/ai/ I>ISTKII:. V IJorneo. 



A shrub?; young branches and flowers pnberulous ; branches long slender climbing. 

 Leaves crenate. Pric/.-Ira short, stout, recurved, (juite glal.rous. Cyme* disposed in 

 leafless rarely leafy panicles. Petals cucullate. Dink faintly lO-lobcd, not jiittcd, gla- 

 brous. Ovary 2-celled ; styles '2, divided to nearly the base. Fruit 1 -celled, 1-seeded, 

 ileshy, glabrous. Z. veuulosa, Wall. Cat. 4235, may be a more slender form of the above. 



17. Z. rug-osa, Lamk. Diet. iii. 319; armed, leaves 2|-6 in. ellip- 

 tic glabrous above young tomentosely pubescent beneath, the older 

 nearly glabrous, petals 0, fruit -| in. obovoid or globose. DC. Prodr. ii. 

 20; W. <k A. Prodr. \(\-l; \Yi<jht Ic. 339; Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 49: 

 Thwatt<'* Euiiin. 73; Z//-/Ww For. Fl. 89.? Z. Burraea, Ham. in Wall. 

 Cat. 4240 g. Z. glabra, Roxb. Ft. Ii>. i. 014; Wall. Cat. 4242. Z. latifolia, 

 J!<>.,-b. Fl. Ind. i. 607; Wall. Cat. 4240; DC. Prodr. ii. 20. Z. obliqiia, 

 Jli-uM in Roth Nov. /Sp. 161 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 20. Z. paniculata, Roth ATov. 

 /5>. 160 ; Wall. Cat. 4241. DC. Prodr. ii. 20. ? Z. tomentosa, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 611. ? Rhamnus glabratus, Herb. Ucym in Wall. Cat. 7479. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, in Kumaon and* Sikkim. BEHAR, /. D. H. ASSAM', and 

 SILHET, Wallich, &c. BIRMA, Griffith. WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan south- 

 wards ; CEYLON, common up to 2000 ft. 



A straggling evergreen large shrub, or small tree, often climbing. Prickles usually 



