640 XLII RHAMNE*:. (M. A. Lawson.) [Wiamnus. 



7. B,. nipalensis, Wall. inRoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey,u. 375 (Ceanothus) : 

 Cat. 42(53 leaves 3-6 by l|-2 in. glabrous fascicles of flowers disposed 

 in simple or compound racemes, petals 5. 



CEXTKVL and EASTKKX HIMALAYA; Nipal, W.iUich; Sikkim, alt. 3-6000 ft., 

 /. D.H.; KHASIA Mrs., alt. 3-4000 ft,, and A.-AM : I'.IKMA ? Griffith. 



A. suberect or rambling shrub, with long slender glabrous branches, or pubescent only 

 on the younger parts. Leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, serrate, 

 membranous or siilicoriaceous, dark-green and shining above. ihortly pedicel- 



late, small, green, pubescent. Petals oblong, concave. Fruit \ in., broadly obovate, 

 blackish-red. 



8. R. procumbens, Edyew. in Tram. Linn. Soc. xx. 43; leaves 1 in., 

 petals 0. K. rupestris, AV//>' ///. 1M (//"//*' milt/}. 



WI.STI.KN HIMALAYA, from Simla to Kumaon, alt. 7-8000 ft., FiJfjfirorth, &c. 



A small shrul) with prostrate branches, the younger ones pubescent. Leaves lanceo- 

 late, acute or subacuminate, coriaceous, serrulate, very shortly petiolate. Flowers 1-2, 

 in the axils of the leaves, pedicellate. Fruit fleshy. 



6. HOVENIA, Thunb. 



A small unarmed tree. Lc<n> alternate, sul>hifarious. Flowers in 

 pedunculated, dichotonious, many-flowered, axillary and terminal cym 

 Cali/x 5-fid ; tube broadly obconicaL /V/f/x ", inserted below the disk, 



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claw oil, cneullate. Stamen* ">, a little longer than the petals. 

 lining the calyx-tube, the mar- in five and hairy. Ur,n-,i conical, sunk in 

 disk, 3-celledj style 3-cleft, branches straight, erect, fruit with arching 

 thickened pedicels, the size of a p^i, indehiscent, obscurely ,'5-loi 

 3-celled, ''> seeded, the outer covering coriaceous and separating from the 

 inner membranous endocarp. 



t. 

 DC 



Lindl. 

 Prodr. ii. 4. 



SL-BTIJOIMCAI, HIM\L\Y.V; alt..'{ r,.'iiii) ft., from Chaniba and Haxara to Bhotan, but 

 often cultivate d. - 1 II>TKIB. < 'hina and .Japan. 



A tree :J(> ft.; trunk straight ; ln-ad l-road, round. -d. Leavtl 4-0 by 2-3 in., ovate- 



acuminate, deeply and sharply serrate or m-arly cntin-, meniliranous. glabrous or more 



ly pubescent, :5-iMTved at tin- liasi-. tin- mi'lrib jiinnately branch' d. l-'\f. nsivdy 



cultivated in China and Japan for its BW66t fleshy pedunclet, which taste likualii-r- 



gamot pear. 



7. SCUTIA, Comm. 



Glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, penninerved, co- 

 riaceous. Flowers in axillary fascicles or subiunbellate. Calyx 5-fid ; 

 tube hemispherical or turbinate. Petals 5, clawed, emarginate, flat 

 or hooded. Disk filling the calyx-tube. Wnmc/ix 5, eiinalling the 

 petals. Ovary sunk in the disk, 2-4-celled, narrowed into a short 2-3- 

 cleft style. Fruit broadly obovoid or subglobose, dry or sub-fleshy, 

 surrounded at the base by the persistent calyx-tube, 2-4-celled, 2-4- 

 seeded. DISTRIB. Species 8; natives of Asia, Africa, and tropical 

 America. 



S. indica, Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. x. 363; W. rf- A. Prodr. 165; 

 111. i. t. 73 ; Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 50 ; Thwaites JEnum. 75 ; 



Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixx, S. Commersoni, ]>rn<ju. in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. Ser. 1, x. 363. S. lucida, G. Don Gen. tiyst. ii. 33. S. Rheediana^ 



