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in terminal panicles. This species by the habit can 

 scarcely appertain to the genus. 



Of Rhan-.nus there are 11 species chiefly in the south of 

 Europe, 2 in Siberia, 5 in Africa and its islands, 10 in the 

 warmer parts of America, 1 in New-Zealand, 1 in the 

 Azores, 2 in China, one of which is common to India; of 

 these the Ji. theezans passes as a substitute for tea 

 among the indigent Chinese. 



228 ZIZYPHUS. Tournf. (Supple-jack.) 



Calix 5-cleft. Petals 5, resembling scales 

 inserted into the glandulous calycine disk. 

 Styles 2. Drupe 2-ceIled, one or two seeded, 

 one of the cells and seeds often abortive. 



Small trees or shrubs with alternate leaves; flowers 

 axillary and terminal. Nearly allied to Rhamnus. 



Species. 1. Z. volubilis. {(Enoplia volubilis. Persoon.) 

 Stem shrubby, twining, racemes many-flowered, axillary 

 and terminal; flowers dioicous. 



Of Zizyphus, there are 6 species in India, 1 in China, 

 3 in Africa, I in Europe, 1 in the Antilles, and another in 

 Peru. The fruit of Z. Lotus is eaten by the AfricanSj 

 and that of Z. Jujuba by the natives of India. 



229. CEANOTHUS. L, (New-Jersey tea. Red- 

 root.) 



Calix turbinate, 5-cleft. Petals 5 squami- 

 form, with long claws. Stigmata 3. Capsule 

 3-angled, 3-celled, S-seeded, tripartile, opening 

 on^the inner side. 



SuffViJticose or shrubby; leaves alternate; flowers copi- 

 ous, axillary and terminal in pedicellate panicles corym- 

 bosely or dichotomously divided; calix coloured, persis- 

 tent, segments arched inwards, glandulous disk 10-toothed- 

 Flowers while. Roots large and very thick, reddish and 

 astringent. Nearly allied to the genus Poinaderris of 

 New-Holland. 



Species. 1. C. americaJius. 2. intermedius^ Ph. 3. sangui- 

 neus. Ph. Suflruticose; leaves oblong-obovate serrate, 

 under side pubescent, panicle short and axillary; flowers 

 crewded, subfastigiate. — On the banks of the xVlissouri, 

 abundant b-olow the confluence of the river Platte- Near 

 the Rocky Mountains. — M. Leiins. A much larger plant 

 than C. americanus, which it considerably resembles; the 

 leaves are eq;ually large, but speaking from recollection 



