Scutia.] XLII. RHAMNE^:. (M. A. Lawson.) 641 



Wight Ic. t. 1071. Catha zeylanica, G. Don Gen. Syst. ii. 10. Ceanothus 

 circumscissa, Gcertn. Fruct. ii. t. 106 ; Wall. Cat. 4266 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 

 30. C. zeylanica, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp 153 ; Wall. Cat. 4267 ; 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 30. Celastrus zeylanica, Roth in Roem. & Schult. 

 Syst. v. 427 ; Nov. Sp. 398 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 9. Rhamnus circumscissus, 

 Linn.f. Suppl. 152 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 603. R. lucidus, Roxb. Fl.Ind. i. 605. 

 R. myrtinus, Burm. Fl. Ind. 60. Rubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8300. Rhamnea ] 

 lucida, Wall. Cat. 4250. 



BIRMA, Wallich ; WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards ; CEYLON, in 

 the hot dry parts of the plains. DISTRIB. Mauritius, Roxb. 



Branches straggling, armed with subopposite recurved prickles, more rarely un- 

 armed. Leaves f-14 in. long, orbicular or obovate entire, or crenate. 



8. SAGERETIA, Brongn. 



Unarmed or spinous shrubs, with slender subscandent or rigid opposite 

 or subopposite branches. Leaves subopposite, penninerved, nerves arched. 

 Flowers very small, sessile on the terminal leafless paniculate branches. 

 Calyx 5-fid, tube hemispherical ; lobes acute, keeled within. Petals 5, 

 clawed, hooded. Stamens 5, equalling the petals. Disk cup-shaped, lining 

 the calyx-tube, margin free 5-lobed. Ovary sunk in the disk, but free 

 from it, 3-celled ; style short, 3-grooved, stigmas 3 capitate. Fruit globose, 

 3-celled, 3-seeded, coriaceous, indehiscent. DISTRIB. Species about 11 ; 

 natives of Central and Eastern Asia, Java, and the hotter parts of North 

 America. 



1. Si hamosa, Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, x. 360 ; leaves 4-5 

 by 2 in. elliptic-oblong shortly acuminate serrate glabrous on both sur- 

 faces. Berchemia 1 hamosa, Wall. Cat. 4253. Zizyphus hamosa, Wall, in 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 369. 



NIPAL, Wallich; WESTERN PENINSULA ; Pulney Mts., Wight. DISTRIB. Formosa. 



A large shrub, with long straggling glabrous branches, unarmed or with very stout short 

 deflexed spines. Flowers puberulous, in terminal and axillary panicles not longer than 

 the leaves. Fruit ? 



2. S. oppositifolia, Brongn. in Ann. Nat. Sc. ser. 1, x. 360 ; leaves 

 2-4 in. ovate-lanceolate acute or subacuminate glabrous and dark green 

 above covered beneath when young with a dense woolly tomentum, 

 Brand. For. Fl. 95. Sageretia filiformis, G. Don Gen. Syst. ii. 29. 

 Berchemia ? oppositifolia, Wall. Cat. 4254. B. 1 parviflora, Wall. Cat. 4258. 

 Rhamnus filiformis, Roth Nov. Sp. 153. R. parviflorus, Klein in Roem. & 

 Schult. Syst. v. 295 ; DC. Prodr. \\. 28. RWigynus, Don Prodr. 190. 

 Zizyphus oppositifolia, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 370. 



N.W. INDIA and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Peshawur and Eajaori eastward to 

 Nipal, alt. 2-5000 ft. ; WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards. DISTKIB. 

 Java. 



A shrub or small tree, with long slender subsarmentose spinous branches, tomen'ose 

 when young. Leaves with 5-8 pairs of nerves; petiole 4 in. Flowers in large terminal 

 panicles. Fruit turbinate, in. long, black, succulent, sweetish. 



3. S. theezans, Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, x. 360; leaves 1^-2 in. 

 ovate or elliptic minutely serrate dark green and glabrous above pubescent 

 when young beneath. jSrandit For. Flor. 95. Sageretia, Wall. Cat. 9010. 

 Rhamnus theezans, Linn. Mant. 207. 



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