528 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



or tree can only be expected to bear its pleasant fruits within the 

 temperate zone in warm regions. The fruit is red or yellow and of 

 the size of a cherry ; it ripens in the milder regions of Victoria. 

 The Tussa-silkworm, which according to Dr. Forbes Watson is the 

 most important and widely distributed of the wild silk-insects of 

 India, feeds on Z. Jnjuba, but also on Terminalia, Shorea, Bombax 

 heptaphyllum (Cavanilles) and some other trees ; often its cocoons 

 are merely collected in the forests. 



Zizyphus Lotus, Lamarck. 



Countries around the Mediterranean Sea. The fruits are small 

 and less sweet than those of Z. vulgaris ; nevertheless they are 

 largely used for food in the native country of this bush, and are 

 quite a staple-product for the local fruit-markets there [Dr. Shaw]. 

 Z. nummularia (Wight and Arnott) is an allied species from the 

 mountains of India, ascending to about 3,000 feet. It is much 

 used for garden-hedges. The fruit is sweet, acidulous and of a 

 pleasant flavor [Sir D. Brandis]. 



Zizyphus BXistal, Grisebach. 



Argentina. A fine tree with edible fruits. 



Zizyphus rugosa, Lamarck. 



Nepal and other mountainous parts of India. A small tree, 

 hardier than Z. Lotus. The fruit of this is also edible, and the 

 same may be said of a few other Indian species. 



Zizyphus Sinensis, Lamarck. 



China and Japan. Similar in use to the last. 



Zizyphus Spina Christi, Willdenow. 



Middle and North- Africa, South- Western Asia. Bather a hedge- 

 plant than a fruit-bush. 



Zizyphus vulg-aris, Lamarck. 



Orient, particularly Syria, extending to China ; m the Himalayas 

 up to 6,500 feet. A small tree, adapted for a mild temperate clime. 

 Fruits scarlet, about an inch long, with edible pulp ; they are 

 known as South-European Jujubes. The allied Z. oxyphylla (Edge- 

 worth) has a very acid fruit. 



Zoysia pung-ens, Willdenow. 



Eastern and Southern Asia, East- Australia, This creeping- 

 grass, although not large, is important for binding coast-sands ; it 

 will live on saline soil, and can also be utilised as a lawn-grass 

 choking out most other grasses, Relished by stock. 



Number of plants, primarily recorded, 2,485. Very many besides 

 secondarily mentioned. 



