Berchemia] XXXV. BHAMXACE.E 169 



2. BERCHEMIA, Necker ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 037. 



Unarmed shrubs or wood}' climbers, stipules foliaceous, often intra-axillary. 

 L. alternate, sec. n. numerous, parallel, oblique. Fl. small, pentamerous, calyx 

 lobes linear or triangular, deciduous. Style simple, often short, stigma capitate, 

 lobed. Fr. a 2-celled berry on the persistent calyx. Species : Eastern Asia, 8 ; 

 tropical Africa and North America 1 each. 



A. Fl. in terminal or axillary panicles, calyx tube only persistent. 



1. B. floribunda, Wall. ; Brandis F. Fl. 91. Vern. Kaulai, Jauns. 

 Amili, Garhw. ; Chiaduk, Nep. 



A large shrub or small tree, erect or climbing. L. ovate, acute or acuminate, 

 blade 2-3, petiole i-J in. Fl. clustered in large terminal panicles, pedicels 

 shorter than calyx. Berry cylindrical, g-J in. long. 



Himalaya, Jhelum to Siikim, ascending to 6,000 feet, Khasi lulls. Fl. June, July 

 (North-West), December (Sikkim). 2. B. flavescens, Wall. Sjikkim, Upper Burma. 

 Very similar. Fl. in short terminal axillary panicles, pedicels longer than flower. 



B. Fl. in small clusters. Fr. supported by entire calyx. 



3. B. lineata, DO. : Brandis F. Fl. 91. Vern. Torbutei, Pusht. ; Angari, 

 Jauns. 



A small shrub, stipules small. L. .',— 1 .'. iti. long. Fl. 2—1 together, either 

 axillary or at the ends of branches. Berry blue, \ in. long. 



Trans-Indus and in the Himalaya to Bhutan, ascending to 10,000 ft. Fl. May-July. 

 ■I. B. Edgeworthii, Lawson. Deoban, Western Nepal. Very similar, supposed to differ 

 by longer stipules and less conspicuous secondary nerves, but probably not really 

 A i fferenl . 



3. ZIZYPHUS, Juss. : Fl. Brit. Ind. i. (132. 



Shrubs or trees. Medullary rays numerous, very tine. Generally armed with 

 stipular spines, which as a rule are unequal, one straight, the other curved. 

 L. alternate, more or less distichous, with 3, rarely 4 or 5, basal nerves. Fl. 

 small, pent rons, mostly bisexual, generally in axillary cymes. Calyx cup- 

 shaped or broad-obomical, lobes keeled inside, petals sometimes wanting, disk 

 lining the calyx tube, edge free, pentagonous or 5-10-lobed. Ovary immersed 

 in disk, ami more or less confluent with it, 2-celled, rarely 3- or d-celled, styles 

 2-3, free or partly connate. Drupe as a rule fleshy, stone rugose or tuberculate, 

 l-3-eolled, I seed in each coll, embryo in thin albumen, cotyledons thick, flat 

 or convex, radicle short, inferior. Species h ), mostly Indo-Malayan, a few in 

 Africa, America and Australia. 



A. ( lymes a xillary, sessile or shortly pedunculate. 



I. Z. Jujuba, Lam.; Wight let. 22: Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. I I": Brandis F. 

 Fl. r. IT. Ycni. Ber, Hind.: Hor, Mar. : Janumjan, Koi; Velandai, Tarn. ; 

 Ringa, Gond; Regu, Tel. ; Jelachi, Kan.: /.Hun. Burnt. 



A middle-sized tree. Branches drooping, armed with stipular spines, equal, 



oi straight, the other bent, rarely entirely unarmed. Branchlets, petioles, 



underside of Leaves and inflorescence densely clothed with bright tawny or 



nearly white lonienl utn. I,, variable, from ovate-oblong to nearly orbicular, 

 Obtuse 6r acute, entire Ol' Serrulate, blade :{-2.l, petiole ,',,-■; in. long. Fl. 



greenish-yellow in slcri axillary nearly sessile cymes, petals unguiculate, 



lamina oblong, concaVe or I led, disk fleshy, 10-lobed, styles 2, thick, connate 



to middle. Drupes varying in size and shape, generally .1-:,' in. long, oi 

 or red when ripe, stalk hall' the length of drupe, stone t uberciihi to. bony, 

 irregularly furrowed, mostly 2-eolled. 

 Indigenous and naturalized throughout India and Burma, ascending in the outer 



