G42 XLII. RHAMNE.E. (M. A. Lawson.) [Sagcretia. 



The SALT and SULIMAN RANGES, alt. 2-8000 ft., Fleming: HAZARA, Stewart; 

 Wi-xrr.ux HIMALAYA, alt. 3-8000 ft., from Kashmir to Simla. DISTRIB. Beluchistan, 

 China. 



A sarmentose spinous shrub with long slender branches. Flowers in long slender 

 interrupted spikes. Spines and flower branches squarrose, or at the ends of the pendant 

 branches. Fruit the size of a pea, globose, succulent, irregularly rugose, dark brown. 

 The fruit is sweet to the taste and extensively eaten, the leaves are used as a sub- 

 stitute for tc;t. 



VAK. diospiry folia ; a scrubby shrub not sarmentose, leaves shorter and bmad'-r, 

 flower- spikes shorter. S. theezans, Brand. For. Fl. 95. Khamnea? diospyrifolia, 

 Wall. Cat. 4251. Ava,TTaMicA. 



4. S. Brandrethiana, A itch, in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 62; leaves 

 f-1 in. elliptic crenate or nearly entire glabrous above covered with a dense 

 ll 



white woolly tomentum beneath 4-8-nerved very shortly petioled. B<><* 

 Ori'-ttt. ii. -2-2 ; ttrand. /',/. /'/. i. 95. 



NORTH N\'I>TI .i:.\ I.M.IA : tin- Salt Uange, Jhelum and Peshawur, Fleming, &c. 

 DISTKIH. Wt stuard to 1'crsia and Arabia. 



A scrnlil'Y sh:ul>, with numerous spin" in terminal 



and axillary panicles. Fruit tin.- si/.r d' a small p<-a. ovoM. :Mi>l,cd, snrenlent, black, 

 with raised longitudinal lines. The fruit is sweet and much eaten by the Ailghans. 

 Brandis. _ 



S. COKYMHOS \, G. Don Gen. Syst. ii. 29, is a West Indian species incorrectly stated 

 by Don to be East Indian. 



9. COtTTBSlINA, Rich. 



Erect shrubs. !iort axillary cymes. 



5-fid; tube hemispherical .-prinxiiiy from the 



mar-in of the disk, h ..... k'd. ,sv////j/ //x :>. Disk flrsliy, filliii;_ .-tube. 



Ovary sunk in the disk and confluent witli it, ^-celled; style 3-cleft ; 

 sti.mnns i-fili-xi-d. /'/"// tlnj size of a pi-a, Riili^lnlmsc, surronmU'd lielow the 

 middle- by the remains of the calyx-tube, :j-ivllcd, ells 1-seeded, tardily 

 dehiscent. J'ISTKIJ:. Species 10, chiefly tropical American. 



'l. Sylv. Anal. G>n. bcix. C. jftv.utica, J/y/. /'V. / ..... /. Hut. pt^MUO. 

 Ceanothus asiaticus, IbamJe. III. t. I 2!), f. -2 ; hC. P,'<H!,\ ii. :;o; // 

 I ml. L 615; Wll. Q..V//. 42(12. C. ca].sularis, /'o/>7. Prodr. 18; DC. 



'. ii. 32. Poniaderri%capaularis. </. l)>m (in,. Si/sf. ii. 30; Burm. 

 n. t. 48. Ivliamnus acuminata, CVr6/'. /// ll.,-l,. FL Ind. \. <i!5. 



EASTKRX and WESTKKX PLMNSULAS ; from the Cofican and Tenaaserim southwards. 

 CEYLON, north end of the Island. DifTKin. -lava, Borneo, Australia, S.W. -Afiica. 



Unarmed. Leaves 2 by 1 in., ovate, snbacuminate, crenatc-serratc, glabrous, mem- 

 branous, .'l-norved at the base, the midrib pinnatcly branched. Cymes \-^ in. long. 



Flu tec r# yellowish green. 



2. ^C. pubescens, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, ii. 301 ; branches 

 and ilovars biepidly-pubescent, leaves l-2a-by ^-lin. 



PEGU, 7\ 



Leaves ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, hispidly-ptibescent on both sides. Petals 

 nearly sessile, broadly oval, emarginate, very concave. Fruit 'f 



