Zizyphus.\ XLII. RHAMNEJE. (M. A. Lawson.) 637 



solitary, recurved, short, base broad. Flowers densely pubescent, in longpedunculated 

 cymes, forming on the usually leafless branches long terminal panicles. Calyx puberu- 

 lous inside. Disk 5-lobed, hairy. Ovary 2 -celled ; styles 2, united below the middle. 

 Fruit fleshy, with a 1 -celled, 1-seeded, very thin crustaceous stone. Dalzel and Gibson 

 speak of the fruit as being very palatable, and affording great support to the inhabitants 

 of the Ghauts from March to the middle of May. Brandis calls it mawkish and 

 peculiar. Kurz in Journ. As. /Soc. Beng. 1870, ii. 73, identifies Z. Horsfieldii, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 643, with Z. glabra, fioxb., but that species is closely allied to Z. 

 Napeca, L., if not a variety of it. 



18. Z. ? eleg-ans, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 366 ; Cat. 4233 ; 

 an erect nearly unarmed shrub, branches filiform pubescent, leaves 1| 

 by \ in. obliquely-ovate-lanceolate obtusely acuminate finely crenate quite 

 glabrous with 3 prominent unbranched nerves. 



SINGAPORE, Wallick. 



The flowers and fruit are not known. 



UNDETERMINABLE AND EXCLCDED SPECIES. 



Z. BAENCHIA, Wall. Cat. 4249, from Monghir, and Z. GLOBULARIS, 4248, from Birma 

 are undeterminable. 



Z. BHUNDER, Boyle 111. i. 168, name only is undetermined. 



Z. LOTUS, Lamk.; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 610, is ambush allied to Z. nummularia, a na- 

 tive of S. Europe, N. Africa, and Arabia. 



Z. NITIDA, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 609, is a native of China. 



Z. SPINA-CHRISTI, L., is a tree cultivated in gardens in N.W. India, allied to Z. 

 Jujuba, it is a native of W. Asia and Egypt. 



4. BERCHEMIA, Neck. 



Shrubs with armed often scandent branches. Leaves alternate, penni- 

 nerved ; nerves straight, parallel. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, 

 fascicled, fascicles disposed in axillary spikes or panicles, or in the axils of 

 the leaves, or clustered at the ends of the branches. Calyx 5- rarely 6-fid ; 

 tube hemispherical or turbinate. Petals 5, rarely 6, obovate or cucullate. 

 Disk lining the calyx-tube, margins free. Ovary sunk in the disk, but free 

 from it, 2-celled, narrowed into the bifid style. Fruit a hard or fleshy 

 drupe, girt at the base with the calyx-tube ; stone crustaceous or woody, 

 2-celled, 2-seeded. Seed linear-oblong, albumen fleshy. DISTEIB. Species 

 about 10, scattered through the tropics of Asia, Africa, and America. 



L B. floribunda, Wall. Cat. 4256; leaves 2-4 in. ovate acute, 

 petiole f-1 in., panicles very large terminal. Brandis For. Fl. 91. B. 

 laxa, Wall. Cat. 4257. Zizyphus floribunda, Wall, in Moxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey, ii. 368. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, , from the Jhelum to Sikkim ; EASTERN BENGAL and KHASIA 

 MTS., Griffith, &c. 



A large erect or climbing shrub or small tree. Branches glabrous, glaucous when 



young. Stipules 2-fid. Floicers sessile or very shortly pedicellate, about 6 in a fascicle. 



Calyx 5-fid ; calyx -lobes lanceolate, acute. Petals 5, spathulate. Fruit f in. long, 



airple, cylindric. Very closely allied to if not identical with B. racemosa, Sieb., of 



lina and Japan (Brandis). 



SI 



2. B. flavescens, Wall. Cat. 4255 ; leaves 2-3 in. ovate-oblong 

 acute cuspidate, petiole f to 1 in., flowers in short terminal racemes or 

 panicles usually under 3 in. Zizyphus flavescens, Watt, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 ed. Carey, ii. 367. 



