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compressed, thickly crustaceous or woody, the capsule dehiscing ver- 

 tically along the middle of both faces, 2-valvate. Seeds 1, com- 

 presssed ; albumen exalbuminous. — Subscandent shrubs ; habit, 

 leaves and other characters of Ventilago] flowers in axillary or 

 terminal ramose cymes. ( Viti Island^ New Caledonia^ Borneo}) 



18. Paliurus T.^ — Flowers nearly of Ventilago ; receptacle broadly 

 CLipular or depressed obconical, lined with a thick depressed, 5-lobed 

 disk, flat abo^e. Sepals 5, 3-angular acute, carinate within. Petals 

 5, cucullate, oftener deflexed, and stamens of Ventilago. Germen 

 semi-immersed in disk and almost entirely free, 3-locular ; branches 

 of short style 3 oblong. Fruit girt at base with short cupular recep- 

 tacle, obconical and dilated above to a large orbicular transverse 

 membranaceo- coriaceous venose entire or lobate wing, indehiscent ; 

 endocarp thin dry ; putamen woody, 1-3-locular. Seed in cells 1, 

 obovate compressed smooth ; testa crustaceous ; cotyledons of scantily 

 albuminous embryo orbicular or elliptical ; radicle short inferior. — 

 Decumbent or erect shrubs, glabrous or slightly tomentose, armed 

 with strong straight or curved stipular spines; leaves alternate 

 petiolate; limb ovate or cordate crenulate, 3-nerved; flowers^ in 

 short axillary fasciculate cymes. {South, Europe^ the East^ north, 

 ChinaJ^) 



19. Zizyphus T.^ — Flowers nearly of Paliurus^ rarely apetalous ; 

 disk plane depressed, obtusely 5-gonal. Anthers introrse*or laterally 

 subextrorse. Germen 2-4-locular ; style-branches from base or 

 higher 2-4-fid divergent, stigmatose at attenuate apex. Drupe 

 globular or ovoid, furnished at base with short cupule of receptacle 

 (rarely deciduous, sometimes concave) ; cells of osseous or woody 



^ Spec. 2, 3. Bol. Mag. t. 2535.— Benth. Fl. Hong Kong, 66. 



55 Inst. 616, t. 387.— Adans. Fam. des Fl. ii. — Boiss. Fl. or. ii. 11.— Gren. et. Godr. FL 



304.— J. Gen. 380.— G^rtn. Frmt. i. 203, t. 43. de Fr. i. 335.— Walp. Ann. vii. 586. 



— Lamk. III. t. 210.— Sav. Lamk. Bid. iv. 697 ; ^ Inst. 627, t. 403.— J. Gen. 380.— G^rtn. 



Suppl. iv. 262.— DC. Prodr. ii. 22.— Ad. Br. Fruct i. 202, t. 43.— Lamk. Diet. iii. 316; 



Mamn. 46, t. 1.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, ii. 439. Suppl. iii. 191 ; III. t. 185.— DC. Prodr. ii. 19. 



— ExDL. Gen. n. 5716.— B. H. Gen. 375, n. 3. —Ad. Br. Rhamn. 47, t. 1.— Spach, Suit, a 



—Aspidocarpus ^ECK. Elem.n. 802. —Aubletia Buffon, ii. 441.— Endl. Gen. n. 5717.— Payer, 



Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), 283 (not G.ertn. Organog. 490, t. 97.— A. Gray, Gen. III. t. 163. 



nor Jacq. nor Rich, nor Schreb.). B. H. Gen. 375, 998, n. 4.— H. Bn. Fayer Fam. 



3 Small, yellow. A^aif. 328.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 632.— Baker, Fl. 



* Spec. 2, of which 1 i8 Chinese, L. Spec. 281 Mamit. 51. 

 {Rhamnus). — W. Sped. 1103 [Zizyphm).—Doi!i^ 



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